With more than four decades of artistic activity, Thalía knows very well what she wants, but also what her audience needs, even if it means becoming a Psycho Bitch.
The 51-year-old actress, singer and businesswoman knows she is current but does not rest on past triumphs, but works for new conquests, in tune with the times.
"I think it has been the most beautiful gift I have had in my career. I have a generic audience. It is an audience that goes from the grandmother, the mother, the little daughter... because the mother plays the song for her, she already knows Thalía or they put my soap opera on her or maybe now on TikTok, they see me and say 'She's an influencer, right? No? Oh no, she is a singer. I love that, it allows me to reinvent myself, it allows me to play with musical styles, play with lyrics, play with interpretation. And that is something that is my fascination, being a chameleon, transforming myself, putting myself in different characters," said the Mexican in a virtual interview with EL VOCERO.
Ariadna Thalía Sodi Miranda, the artist's given names, made her debut in the 1980s in the children's group Din-Din, prior to joining Timbiriche, with whom she recorded three studio albums. However, it was through her facet as an actress that she went around the world, thanks to the so-called trilogy of the Marías: María Mercedes (1992), Marimar (1994) and María la del Barrio (1995), which set records for audience and made her the "Queen of soap operas".
"I'm going to surprise you," she says about the performance
"I was scaled, I was scarred from all the ones I threw at myself, one after another, after another, after another, after another. I'm like this 'I don't want to know more', but at some point I'm going to surprise them," she admitted about her mistrust of melodramas, which she hasn't done since 1999, when she starred in Rosalinda.
However, this does not mean that she has said goodbye to acting, nor to the possibility of a bioseries centered on her as a person.
"I was one of the first who was offered to do my series from there and I have always said wait for me a little bit. Because there are things of mine, very mine, very personal that I still don't want to open. In other words, they are things that are very mine, but when it opens it will be a 'freaking' success. It's going to be, because it's going to be very cool, but well... 'not yet'", she warned.
New music
Also a businesswoman who focuses her professional energies on the new song Psycho Bitch.
"We all have a little 'psycho' side, a little 'bitch', a little bit Psycho Bitch. The truth is that, put it on the table, embrace that and say that I do have that. It is a 'spicy' (hot) topic, fun. I do things at the moment, as I like, as I please, if that's 'psycho bitch' for you... Good! Call me a Psycho Bitch", said the Mexican singer.
She took possession of the cut from the first time she heard the music.
"This song came to me out of the blue and I was like, 'This is mine. At this moment I make it mine, nobody touches it'. The next day I was already in the studio with two female composers and we worked on a lyric and recorded it. I like to live the songs, I like to stay with the songs, listen to them to see if I add a piano to it or take something away from it or if I put a harmony on it. The lyrics didn't fit with the song and with what I felt when I heard the song and said 'No, it's not what I want'. And I started the 'track' from scratch again, I started writing it from scratch and in ten minutes I got the lyrics Psycho Bitch, she said about her connection with the single.
The production, available on digital platforms, has a pop vibe from the 90s, but grounded in the present, a sound that the artist assures her body needed.
The song has a video in support, in which the singer shows her dancing skills, as well as her ability to get into the character of a 'psycho bitch'.
With 15 studio albums, he warns that more surprises are coming at a musical level.
Prior to its premiere, the voice of Amor a la mexicana, started the promotion of the single on the platform of the moment: TikTok. The vocalist invited the public to share what triggers their 'pshyco bitch' side, becoming a trend.
To the Latin Grammy and refine tour
Thalía, married to producer Tommy Mottola since 2000, father of her two children, Sabrina and Matthew, is preparing for an intense November.
In addition to new music, the interpreter of A quién le importa, arrives in Las Vegas to be one of the main host of the 23rd Latin Grammy Awards.
Anitta, Luis Fonsi, Laura Pausini and Thalía To Host The 23rd Annual Latin GRAMMY Awards®
Thalía will share the assignment, on November 17, with the Puerto Rican Luis Fonsi, the Italian Laura Pausini and the Brazilian Anitta.
The four of them know the awards quite well. The Mexican received the Presidency Award of the Latin Recording Academy in 2019, Fonsi has been awarded five Latin Grammys, Pausini is the winner of four Latin Grammys and one Grammy, while Anitta competes in this edition in the recording categories of the year and best reggaeton performance, with her song Envolver.
On the other hand, she announced that together with her work team she is fine-tuning a concert tour that she hopes to materialize by 2023.
With the 'tour', she hopes "sooner than expected" to make a stop on the Isla del Encanto.
"I want to go to Puerto Rico with or without a tour... I need to sit down like this and have some fried codfish, delicious like that. I mean, I love them. But we are planning something later, let's say that hopefully next year... many things are coming, it will happen soon," revealed Thalía, who has not visited the island for more than a decade.
