The Mexican singer and actress talked with La República about the launch of her new collaboration with Mau and Ricky and the theme Ya Tú Me Conoces.
When the proposal came out to interview Thalía, the conditions were: seven minutes as the talk time limit and talk only about music. With the warnings of the case and the certainty -of course- that we would not only talk about songs, we are waiting for the telephone ring that finally rang at 1:10 p.m., an hour after the scheduled time. "I'm very happy to talk after some time," Thalía said on the other side of the headset from New York.
These days, the Amor a la Mexicana singer has not stopped giving interviews, something unusual in her, who is promoting her new song Ya Tú Me Conoces, which she performed with the duo Mau and Ricky (children of Ricardo Montaner), a song of urban pop genre, in whose video she is dressed in colorful outfits.
Thalía says that the friendship with these boys emerged a few years ago when they composed the song Por Lo Que Reste de Vida (from her 2014 album Amore Mio, which became one of her favorite ballads. "With this song many of my followers got married, it's a very loving song," she says. Now maybe she decided to return the deference to them. "Last year I was in my studio composing, when Mau and Ricky sent me the demo of Ya Tú Me Conoces. When I heard it singing by them I said: I love it! I want it for me! But as I loved their voices, I proposed to sing with them, and here we are celebrating and having fun with this song that is fresh, dynamic, cheerful and has a message of "love yourself as you are and do not change for anyone."
This is not Thalía's first collaboration. She has done it throughout her career, although for a while now her favorites are young artists such as Mau and Ricky or Natti Natasha, with whom she raised to fame the catchy song No Me Acuerdo.
Do you think that recording with younger artists adds them to fame or exposure? Does it also add something to you?
I think it's exactly that, a collaboration. It is learning everything and everything, everything that conveys the song and the style of each one. I have always believed in collaborations and if you check my discography you will realize all that I have done over the years. Today is no exception, I think we all push and help each other, and that's what it is about, how culture is all together and in our language.
And what do you think that some aspects of urban music, such as reggaeton, have been demonized by the lyrics of their songs?
I see that the urban genre is the new global pop, it is the sound that everyone is accepting and is becoming viral. And you can't escape, it's real and I definitely think it's a very generous genre, because it's much more flexible to add other sounds or styles. You can add salsa, bachata, Mexican regional, pop, and it works. Those songs are much easier and much more digestible for people.
And since we talk about music, her niece, actress Camila Sodi, has just recorded the song A quién le importa (original of the duo Alaska and Dinarama) for the soap opera 2020 remake of Rubí and has said she has done it in homage to her aunt, Thalía, who also recorded the same song that was released on 2002. What does she think of it and her ascending acting career? We asked her and a prolonged silence preceded Thalía's last two words: "Look, it happens ...".
And end of conversation. What happened? The representative of Sony tells us that perhaps the communication was cut because Thalía was driving through some complicated area of New York, but that they will call again, something that of course never happened. So we were left with several questions to ask, but especially with the doubt of knowing if Thalía got angry about asking her about her niece and didn't want to talk anymore or if the label ended the call because the seven agreed minutes were exhausted.
