Thalía doesn't stop, because few Latin pop superstars have comparable energy. She now presents Mixtape, a project that includes an album and a documentary series.
Who doesn't know what a mixtape is? Well, if there was someone, don't worry, Thalía will arrive to explain it to them.
Thalía does it in great detail, because she stars in a three-episode documentary series entitled Thalía's Mixtape: El Soundtrack de Mi Vida, where she offers a sentimental and personal journey through the history of recent Latin music, which has made her the star she is.
As a presenter, Thalía is just as energetic as a singer. And if she's wanted to interview some of the musicians who have signed songs that have marked her life, it made perfect sense that, since they were on hand, she would record covers of her favorite classics with them.
So Mixtape, her new album, a collection of covers – as she says; versions, which we would say– which includes duets with David Summers (Devuélveme a Mi Chica), Aterciopelados and León Leiden (Florecita Rockera) or Kenia Os (Para No Verte Más).
She also scores solo versions of classics by Mecano (Me Cuesta Tanto Olvidarte) or Maná (Rayando el Sol ). Thalía's body ask her to celebrate some other songs (by other singers) that she have registered on her DNA and make them own, and everybody saying to her 'NO'.
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No one would say no to a ten minute chat with the Mexican diva via Zoom. In this way it is not the first time that she receives Shangay, and with an equally reduced time, but Thalía is like that, always accelerated.
Always lovely, too. That the first thing she says to you when she appears, divine on a most eighties set, is "Hello, beautiful!" It already indicates that they are going to be a few minutes of enjoyment with her.
With a permanent smile, Thalía overflows sympathy and passion. Logical that her legion of fans adore her unconditionally. "I urgently need them to take me to Spain," she says. "I already have my bags packed," she jokes. "I want to be there, please!" I hope it will be soon.
For now, let's talk about the Mixtape universe with her. Has a nostalgic vein entered her and that is why she has started to search the trunk of her memories? "Presenting the musical docuseries has meant traveling back to my teenage years. I remembered those posters that hung in my teenage room of my idols, and several of them agreed to sing with me in this project." Thalía is clear about what she was looking for: "To be able to thank them, as a good fan, for their music, for everything they are and what they have meant."
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Thalía wants Mixtape to also be a way to reintroduce those songs that she loves so much so that new generations can also enjoy them. Hence, both the series and the album have also invited very young artists such as Ben Carillo or Bruses. "That's important to me," she confesses.
Being that it is a project that was born from the adolescent and fanatic Thalía, it shows in style that when you are a fan of someone since you were little, you are a forever fan. "Obviously, honey. To who doesnt happend? In this case I have been face to face with people who changed my chip at a time when I was vulnerable and did not know where I would go. And I was able to ask them what it felt like to write certain songs and when they went global."
Investigative journalism via Thalía, which has nothing to do with any other presenter that comes to mind. "On top of that, they offered me to sing those songs that I love so much with them... I mean! I could have passed out", she says between laughs.
In the series, and opening the album, is David Summers, who has returned with Thalía the classic by Hombres G Devuélveme a Mi Chica. "My first crush! Please! Since I contacted him, we have developed such a beautiful friendship". In a totally teenage way, she confesses: "The first few times, after talking to him, I would start screaming like a total fan. Because he couldn't believe me."
Be careful, in her version of Devuélveme a Mi Chica, as it appears in the docuseries, when the tricky line "voy a vengarme de ese marica" (I'm going to take revenge on that faggot) arrives, this last word has been censored. "It's just that I did this project thinking that everyone would enjoy it," she explains. "I am the number 1 ally of the community, I am the number 1 faggot, and I did not want there to be one little thing that we could be censured for. And David, so generous, told me "my love, it's your project. However you want to do it, I support you." So, to avoid the stale eighties context of the expression in the song, it was deleted from the version.
Thalía does not want to lock herself in her world, and for this reason she explains that she needs to be in contact with emerging artists, who are also present in this project. "They have a programming and a vibe, typical of their DNA, very interesting to me," she says. "I am interested in their language, their way of creating music and, ultimately, of seeing life. I love acting as a bridge in this project between generations that are equally iconic to me. Between the royalty from when I was a teenager and those who have come off TikTok or YouTube."
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Thalía does not want to miss the train of time, and she continually puts her batteries to continue being part of what is going on, as she makes clear with the docuseries. "I have always been very technological myself. I'm involved in creating my first websites as taking selfies with my cabin from years ago."
She is also very willing for adventures like this to be well understood at home, in which she looks back and celebrates the musical culture of decades like the 80s and 90s. "My 11-year-old son made a comment to me on another day: 'Mom, you finally get your Mixtape out after four years of talking to us about this. But I don't quite understand how a playlist could fit inside that little piece of plastic you show...'. He was referring to the cassettes, of course. "Well, there I came to try to make him understand, like all those people from other generations who see the docuseries, that there was a time when we did not have Shazam and we did not have everything within reach of our mobile phones."
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Be careful of the looks that she takes out in the series in videos like the one of Florecita rockera, because it is Thalía in its purest form, excess and color to the max. "As RuPaul says, 'we're all in drag.' And I am the megadrag," she says with a big, proud smile. "They always have to tie me up and ask me to relax. If it were up to me, right now I would be doing this interview with a triple eyelash, mega-gloss and a wig." Thalía's fantasy does not stop, luckily.
What will Thalía's next sound like? Will she be influenced by the classics that she has wanted to interpret in her own way now? "Let's see what happens, let's see!", she replies. "Because I like to always be on the move. Creating. My mind doesn't stop".
Source: Shangay
