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Albert Pla: "Journalists are a factory of lies"

2022-05-07T04:18:35.419Z


The composer, singer and writer is still on tour in Spain and Latin America and has just released 'Los uno y los otros', a “digital novel” in the form of a dialogue on whatsapp.


To some abstruse minds that have not yet realized that he is a genius, dangerous but a genius, Albert Pla (Sabadell, 55 years old) seems like a

hangover

.

He follows his own: composing, singing and reciting on stage (sometimes together with the extraordinary guitarist Diego Cortés).

And writing: he has just released

Los uno y los otros

(Desacorde Ediciones), a hilarious but worrying “digital novel” in the form of a dialogue on WhatsApp.

Laughter and fear: infallible formula.

Ask.

You are 55 years old, but

The one and the other

seems written by someone 16. With mistakes and eating the words.

Was that the intention?

Answer

.

I don't know, that's how I write on WhatsApp, I don't know how you will write.

Q.

Is this how you normally write your messages?

Really?

R.

No man, obviously the protagonists are two kids.

Q.

Well that.

R.

But I did not try to imitate any language.

Let's see, if you give my daughter an "ha" when you say "hello" on whatsapp, she scolds you.

Q.

What do you think about young people writing like this, with spelling mistakes?

A.

I think it's great.

P.

There are those who maintain that this is how the language is degraded.

Myself.

You?

A.

No, not at all.

Q.

A new language, then?

R.

I think that in the end there will be a new language made only with emoticons and symbols with which you will be able to understand yourself with everyone.

No need to write a word.

P.

“How would our parents communicate before, when there was no WhatsApp?”, the protagonist tells the protagonist.

"I don't know, I think they were talking on the phone," the other answers.

R.

Heh, heh, heh, yes!

P.

It seems like a joke, but it's already happening.

Kids talk less and less on the phone.

They write everything.

R.

So that later they say that youth does not write!

Between

whatsappers

and rappers and

ragpickers

, people write a lot.

And of course, they are not going to write things that Pérez-Reverte likes either.

They have nothing to say to a 60-year-old guy, at least when I was 20 I had nothing to say to a 60-year-old man.

P.

And now that you are 55, do you have things to say to someone who is 20?

R.

I do not have that claim, it is more, it would give me a little creepy.

What always bothered me the most when I sang were the boys and girls.

Q.

Can you explain that?

R.

Yes, I don't understand how a 15-year-old person can suddenly appear at a concert of mine.

Q.

Well, because he still likes you.

A.

Yes, but it doesn't work for me.

Q.

There are also unusual people who can be liked by a wide range of people.

R.

Yeah, no, but I mean that you still saw Extremoduro singing with an audience of 15-year-olds, and I didn't understand a thing.

Q.

In

Los uno y los otros

everything is virtual.

But also in today's real society everything is becoming more virtual.

So that later they say that youth does not write!

Between the whatsappers and the rappers and the ragpickers, people write a lot

R.

Yes, the protagonists of this story do everything by mimicry, they fuck as they have heard that they fuck in movies, they are not capable of doing things because they have a cultural environment that forces them to do something... and it is true, they say that the masturbation is beginning to be a… a… host, I don't mean sexual deviation.

Let's say a sick sexual taste, that is, there are many people who now prefer to masturbate than fuck, ufff, what a mess, fuck, I prefer a good handjob!

and those things.

Q.

It is not certain that this is so new.

R.

Well, yeah, but it's already being cataloged as a practice that many people do because they give up fucking, that is, deliberately, I don't know if you understand me.

In other words, it's not that you do it because you have no other choice.

P.

That really is self-love.

R.

As is, ha ha ha!

Q.

Are you active in networks?

R.

I'm on Twitter and Instagram.

I use them professionally, shall we say.

But just as I don't follow news, neither do the networks.

They have quite little travel, they are boring.

Q.

Do you think that they will one day completely replace the traditional media as a vector of information?

R.

It is that…

P.

We have earned it by hand, you can say it.

R.

Clarooooo… I imagine that a journalist is because there are uninformed people, right?, and to inform.

But of course, if that is based only on being the first, which seems to be what is happening today, it has little travel.

Journalists are a factory of fibs.

What is more absurd and more anachronistic than a journalist shouting "This is

fake news, let's stop the fake news

!".

But if you are a

fake news

with legs!

If every time there is going to be a piece of news that doesn't have to be news, the journalists start talking about some Catalan!

(laughs).

I'm on Twitter and Instagram.

I use them professionally, shall we say.

But just as I don't follow news, neither do the networks.

They have quite little travel, they are boring

P.

Do you have a mania for Catalans in Spain?

A.

A scar has remained.

Yes. The other day a lady in a bar in Vitoria told me: “Ah, are you Catalan? Oh, how nice!

Since they messed with you they have already left us in peace”.

And it is like this: the whole history of the Catalans began when the Basque series ended.

When in Spain they said: "This is not enough! We are going to start a new serial!".

P.

In your novel

Spain of shit

, you spoke of an attack in a concert hall with many dead.

And then he passed the Bataclan thing.

In an interview he said that what he would really like would be to put on a

show

about a virus that affects humanity.

And the covid came.

Any more predictions we need to know?

A.

Well, since I talk about so many topics, I have to get one right.

And it's a good thing I'm not right at all, huh?

Q.

How do you protect yourself from the noise that invades us?

R.

Letting myself go.

I am very unstable in everything.

Sometimes I get up on the left, at noon I'm a conservative and I go to sleep looking like a slob.

P.

In fact, our previous interview was titled “Tomorrow I will have changed my mind”.

A.

Well yes.

I am one of those people who are never willing to defend what they have said.

I live with a

changed

foot .

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