A few months after presenting her album ‘IDGAF ERA’, Sofia Reyes returns to “finish saying” what still needed to be healed. With a rawer deluxe version, the artist frees herself from the expectations of others and her own resistances, embracing vulnerability as the core of her new stage.
“I seek to learn a lot from vulnerability, to learn a lot about myself in order to be able to share myself in this way, as honestly as possible with people and with my music as well,” says the singer born in Monterrey, Mexico, in an interview with EFE.
The last two years Reyes has lived them, in a way, as a crisis. At the age of 30 and in the midst of Saturn return -that astrological moment that marks a stage of profound changes and personal revelations-, the singer has had to rethink companies, goodbyes and creative directions.
“I feel like there are still a lot of challenges and a lot of chaos going on in some ways, but I feel calmer and with more clarity,” she explains.
On his last album, Reyes spoke of breakups, parties, sexual freedom, broken hearts and unrequited love, in a universe of pop and electronica that combined venting and pain with an “I don’t give a fuck” attitude, the acronym of which gives the album its name.
“I feel that I was very confused about what I wanted, I didn’t feel very connected with my project, I didn’t feel very connected with the music industry, with what I was creating and doing in my day to day life. I started to make changes and that’s when my life started to change a lot, and with changes also comes a lot of grief,” she says.
From that same emotional whirlwind emerged the four songs of ‘IDGAF ERA (postscript)’, initially discarded from the original album for its less electronic sound and that this Friday finally see the light.
“For me it was important to be able to include them in the same experience of ‘IDGAF ERA’ because of what they talk about and because it is coherent with that same process (…) They are very different songs, these songs are more like ‘raw’, more raw,” he explains.
In ‘Yo también’, Sofía Reyes explores a broken relationship with a sound that incorporates touches of regional Mexican, created at the same stage as ‘El 100’ with Dannylux.
“It’s one of the songs that when I wrote it I couldn’t stop crying,” he says.
‘Lo Bueno y Lo Malo’ reflects his desire to embrace both positive and painful experiences and the other two tracks are reinterpretations: ‘Lua’, a bossa-nova version of his hit ‘Luna’, and ‘Saberte Querer’, now in orchestral format, which deepens the emotional intimacy of the original.
Reyes says that the changes he has made in himself have also been reflected in the arrival of new listeners.
“I’ve realized that there are also a lot of new people who have come to my project, who maybe didn’t know my music before and who connect a lot with this aesthetic,” he says.
Recently the ‘1,2,3’ singer had a performance at the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles, where she presented this last part of her project in an instrumental and intimate format that moved her to tears.
“It was a great personal experiment, and I want to take it to many cities,” he said, reported Agencia EFE.
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