Ethereal and magical music.
From Spain, Rebbe returns to Mexico to share an intimate show that will cover his 2024 album, Can't you hear me?and more songs loved by his fans. The so-called princess of Spain is described as an ethereal and magical singer who makes sweet and at the same time overwhelming music. Regarding his visit to Mexico, we spoke with Rebbe about his next concert, his aesthetics and eroticism.
Indie Rocks! Magazine: We know that your history with music goes back a long time, even within school. If we could go back a little to your student years, how would you define that Rebbe?
Rebbe: Well, I basically had no friends at university. I didn't have any friends, so I was always half in my pajamas, until my music started to become known and people started to recognize me at university and it became so unbearable that I left university.
GO!: Tell us what the path was to find your musical genre, because currently there are a sea of musical genre options and many trends. So how did you go about finding what kind of music you wanted to make?
A: Well, when I started making music, I was a young girl and then I think it's not that I was presented with the situation of having to choose what to do, but simply when I had the tools to start making music and when I started making music, all the things that I liked were reflected in the music.
But wow, at no point was it like I made any decision on any path, what I already liked simply began to be reflected in my music.
GO!: Something that catches our attention here is the aesthetics of your covers. We have noticed that much of the collagewhich is a lot about splicing figures, splicing cuts, with a very vintage aesthetic as well. So tell us about these covers, what do the shapes come from, where do the ideas come from?
A: Well beyond the collage Visually, in general I do my entire project by mixing references from different sites. That is, I make music by taking a chord structure from one song and then mixing it with a melody from another, or in general by making a collage within the music and then the same thing happens to me in the images.
Also, I think that originality is very overrated and we have an idea of what originality is that I think is not real. And well, I like to be quite shameless by copying things.
GO!: The next question we have is about eroticism and women, because it is something that we have also heard and seen within your music, within your live act. Why would you tell us that it is important to take control of this eroticism as women in moments where it seems that the industry is only attached to male pleasure?
A: Well, I think the answer is there in the question, simply for us to take control of it and not make it for men. In any case, I feel a little lost with this issue because I like to think as little as possible about the erotic vision of men.
So I prefer to stay on the sidelines and have no idea what they think or what they want.
GO!: Within your show, do you have any live songs that you enjoy singing more than other songs? Yeah.
A: It actually changes over time, but I would say that lately it's one of my favorites. “firecrackers sound” and “the hill” from my old disk.
GO!: As a last question, what can we expect from your show now that you come to Mexico?
A: It's a surprise. You'll have to come see it. I spent the whole year thinking about Mexico. For me it is like “we will always have Paris”, well for me it is like “I will always have Mexico”. I spend the whole year touring Europe, which I find very uninteresting, everything very similar to each other and also a little depressing.
And Mexico for me is like the light at the end of the road. And then I really miss going back to Mexico. I feel very connected to Mexico, I think it's actually something that happens to many artists because in Mexico it's like they welcome you very well.
But beyond that, I really like Mexican culture. And then nothing, I miss them a lot and they have the responsibility of coming to see me for that.
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