Danna Paola says she has left behind the philosophy of ‘quiet, you look more beautiful’. The Mexican singer and actress presents “KO” (knockout, for the English acronym), an album that declares that machismo no longer takes place in her romantic relationships.
“The title is going to give meaning to something that had to happen to me to realize that enough suffering. It was like the final blow to this sentimental situation I was living in, like waking up and saying ‘it’s over’, ”said Danna Paola in a recent interview via video call from Mexico City.
The artist says making the album, for which she co-wrote all of the songs, helped her emotional process. The album, which features previously released tracks such as “No bailes sola” with Sebastián Yatra, was released last weekend along with her latest single “Calla tú”.
In the respective video clip, Danna Paola appears dancing surrounded by women in ecru suits and red lighting. The singer said red is the anger, blood and power of feminism.
“For me it was very important to reflect that with a video and with a lot of women,” he said. “That it gives us strength, that we unite.”
The 25-year-old interpreter admitted that she has experienced a lot of machismo in the entertainment industry and her personal life.
“I grew up with a philosophy and an education ‘quiet, you look better’that you have to get married and that the man is the one who has to maintain the house, the man is the one who has to do it, “he said.” But it’s not like that.
“Being a feminist basically means educating yourself about, respecting yourself as a woman, supporting other women and not allowing these kinds of things to keep happening in terms of aggression, living in a prison in your own home with a partner who gives you alone doing it. pain, ”he continued.
In his case, it reached a point where he decided to put his self-esteem above any relationship.
“Being empowered as a woman doesn’t mean I’m arrogantOn the contrary, it is giving myself to respect myself first in order to love someone else, to love myself first before I can love someone else, ”he said.
According to UN Women figures, the situation of violence against women in Mexico, where an average of 10 women are murdered every day, has worsened with the pandemic, rising by 60%.
“I think music can give us information about that too,” said Danna Paola. “Shut up, I don’t look prettier, shut up.”
“Ordinary love”, about a love that, in trying to be extraordinary, made common mistakes until it was extinguished, is another theme that stands out on the album, and for the singer is the “most personal and emotional” of “KO”.
“Yes, it was very ‘tough’ (hard) for me to realize that no one deserves love, so I cut your wings … and they make you feel less all the time,” said Danna Paola, who was accompanied by piano and strings he wanted to convey the pain he was going through and he managed it in one shot.
On “Justified”, an “uptempo” song about the sentencing to end a bad relationship, he sings in English and Spanish. It was originally for a country artist and was entirely in English, but Danna Paola wanted to rewrite it to make it her own.
“There are certain words in Spanish that give him all this power in certain sentences that I needed. It is very ‘cool’ (cool) that at a language level I was not afraid to put a limit on only in Spanish. On the contrary, I speak Spanish all the time, ”he said.
“I think what I like the most about that song is ‘you confused your insecurity with this love’ and actually a lot of people hurt because they are so insecure because they don’t know how to keep the diamond to them or because they don’t know how to be in a relationship, ”he added.
A trip to Los Angeles led to the song “TACO,” a play on words between “taco and” you get used to it.
“If that person doesn’t want to share tacos with you, it’s because they don’t love you,” said Danna Paola.