Do good with music.
The Mexican singer-songwriter originally from Mérida, Valeria Jassoreleased a new single titled “Only You”after the publication of an EP that marked his 2024. After important concerts last year, Valeria Jasso He took the time to prepare songs to release a new album in 2026. Although there is no release date yet, it will be made up of 10 songs that will explore different Latin American musical genres in his style. “Only You” is the first single from this new album: a romantic and loving bachata with a strong feminine energy. Regarding the launch, we spoke with Valeria Jasso about the love of music, composition and the process behind this new material.
Indie Rocks! Magazine: We come from the EP A Long Journey 2024. What has this process been like since it came out until now?
Valeria Jasso: Well, I feel like since it came out it was a moment in which I kept thinking about my album. Sighsand A Long Journey It was that EP where I started thinking about other sounds. I feel like it was key to what I'm doing right now, although at the time it came out I was still in that vibe of Sighs. And from here to there, since a year has passed, there has been a change in me too, like a lot more maturity.
I think that EP marked new sounds that I want to experience and also a lyric that perhaps I had already explored before, but that was maturing. At that moment I thought: “ok, I've done this a lot, I've talked a lot about this, now what do I want to do?” For example, A Long Journeywhich was the last song, is like a bossa pop, and I feel that it marked new sounds, like bossa, that I had never used in such a unique way. Now, in my album, I'm discovering that it exists much beyond what I was doing before.
GO!: The song “Un Largo Viaje”, which is part of the EP, talks about going through your twenties. How has that journey been for you?
VJ: Well, I'm still in my twenties, but I feel like it's still a super trip for me. It's a long trip, but a mega long trip. I wrote that song at a time when maybe I didn't know that I would need it more later. I feel like it speaks to the Okay from now, at 27, and that he is telling me things at different stages.
Each year has been very different for me. At that time I was still at my parents' house, understanding who I am and what I like. Then came the stage of becoming independent, moving to another city and starting to see much more about myself. The twenties have been a roller coaster.
GO!: On this roller coaster, are you a person who returns to your own music to build new music?
VJ: I feel like it's a balance when I'm writing new music. I think I have what I like marked and my style comes out naturally when I produce or compose a song. It just blossoms from the references I hear and make them my own.
But there are also times when I can get stuck and need to come back to myself and remember who I am. In those moments I listen to my songs and say: “Ah, ok, I am this person and I talk about this.” Listening to those songs reminds me of who I am within the music I'm making now. Yes there have been times when I need to do it.
GO!: Speaking of balance, how much do you delegate within the process of making music?
VJ: I don't know how to delegate, it's very difficult for me. I like having a team, which is what I have now and they are people very close to me. New people are coming into this new album and it is the first time we work together, but I like that we are all in every part of the process, because then what comes out really has what I am.
Yes, I delegate, obviously, because I can't do this alone and there is a team behind it, but we are all going in the same direction of what I want, and in the end I make the decisions: this yes, this no. I'm involved from recording to production, mixing and mastering. If I feel like something needs adjustments, I say so. I'm always there.
I think that's what I like about my music: I put a lot of love into it. Releasing a song is like having a child; I put a lot of love into each song and I don't like making music just for the sake of making it. That's why I want to be in all the processes.
GO!: Your stamp is also visible in your own visual aesthetics and on the covers of your music.
VJ: I love that, being able to create my own world. Songs allow me to create a space where I feel good. And that goes from a concert, for example, now I give flowers because I like to bring who I am to others.
The same thing happens in the visual part. I work with other people, but mood boards and the creative idea come from me, because I like to think that there is a world beyond reality where we can feel songs and music. I listen to a song and it takes me to another world, and that is what I want to achieve with my songs. Furthermore, I love nature.
GO!: All this is super coherent with “Solo Tú”, the bachata that you are releasing.
VJ: I think I follow the same line, but I also allow myself to experiment. I'm at a stage where I want to explore other genres, and everything Latin catches my attention. I listen a lot to Vicente Garcia and Juan Luis Guerrawho do bachata, and that made me want to do my own.
There are also artists who have made bachatas in their style, and that gave me another perspective. So I decided to do it. I worked on it with my friend Joséwith whom I compose several songs, and I told him that I wanted to make a bachata. Later I knew it was going to be about love when I started singing it in my room.
Bachata is usually very romantic and dramatic, and I wanted to get closer to that warmth, but also to the sensuality and affection towards another person, something I had not explored before. It was a challenge, because we had never done bachata.
GO!: It is also important to mention that it has not been long since women have been able to talk openly about sensuality and pleasure, and now love is also taken from another, freer perspective.
VJ: Yes, it is different when a man talks about love than when a woman does, and now there is greater freedom to write about sensuality and desire. My way was not to take it to something very explicit, but to something more free and emotional.
Also, lately I have read books written by women and about women, and that has also given me another vision to write songs with my partner in mind. Everything is starting to make sense.
As an artist, when I watch the news and everything that's going on in the world, there was a moment last year when I asked myself why I was making music when such serious things happen. I thought there were more important things than writing a record. But I understood that, from my trench, this is what I can do.
There is so much chaos that my grain of sand is to make music that can lift people up a little and remind us who we are as humanity. In these times it is very necessary to make songs that talk about this and remind us why we are alive and what it is to be human. Although there is increasing awareness, there is still a lot of need. I mean, why can't we help, embrace… do good?
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