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(CNN Spanish) -
Pablo Alborán presented last Friday "It rains on wet", his first collaboration with the Spanish singers Aitana and Álvaro de Luna.
The single is a song that perhaps varies a bit in the Alboran style, one of those ballads with flamenco twists.
Here the man from Malaga is carried away by pop rock, an
up tempo
produced by Paco Salazar and Julio Reyes Copello.
The chorus or chorus of the song stands out in particular for its power and the way in which the voices of the three interpreters fit perfectly.
"It's poison, it's poison," Alboran told Zona Pop CNN from his studio in Spain.
"It is a song with a very catchy chorus and the truth is that I am very happy to have Aitana and Álvaro de Luna in this song. They have been key to finishing it, to be able to orient the song to where it is. It has been a very fun process also, because each one has a different way of seeing music, they have a different voice, we have a different style, but as far as possible, we converge on this song in a very natural, very spontaneous way, "added Alboran.
Alboran "kept" this theme for six years
Although "It rains on wet" came out a few days ago, the idea of the song haunted the mind and the compositions of Alboran for six years.
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Why take it up now?
"I got this song out because it's a song that doesn't belong to any album. Nor to any concept. I like that albums have a beginning and an end, and this song was like a full stop. I couldn't finish it. So it is a good starting point, a good starting port, because the moment we are living is a moment where we want to have fun, live, enjoy, jump, live the concerts and start over, restart everything from In a way. And this song transmits that energy and I think it was time to bring it out, "added Alboran.
Regarding the collaboration, Alborán knew about the careers of Aitana and Álvaro de Luna.
The latter was part of the sixth season of La Voz España and belonged to the team of a close friend of Alborán, Pablo López.
How the collaboration for "It rains on wet" came about
None of the three had sung together or between them, something that changed with this single.
"When I proposed it to them, they told me yes, they directly told me that they knew each other's work and that they thought it was a very crazy idea, but very funny and that they felt like it," Alboran told Zona Pop CNN.
"The first thing we did was sit in the studio, because of course, what I told them was
' let's see, be careful ... The song is not finished ... I am missing half the lyrics, the chorus is incomplete, that is I need you and I want you to make it yours'
", he remembers.
"We sat in the studio and the same day we finished the song, we recorded the voices. And then it was a very easy process because the song guided us directly. Musically we already knew where it had to go and then it was, as I said, very, very natural to work with them, very spontaneous, very fresh, the video clip very funny. We were constantly laughing and with a very positive inertia, with a desire to celebrate and have a good time, which I think we all have, "he said.
Pablo Alborán and his four nominations for the Latin Grammy 2021
The man from Malaga was one of the biggest nominees for the 22nd edition of the Latin Grammy.
It appears in the main categories of the night with "If you had wanted", in recording of the year and song of the year, and "Vertigo" in album of the year and best traditional pop vocal album.
Nominations that he says he did not expect and which he found out in the middle of a meeting.
"I did not expect the nomination at all because we are in a state of mind to move forward, to be constantly thinking about moving forward to see the possibilities of giving concerts, traveling, promoting, doing interviews, which suddenly is like no I forgot. But the truth is that I didn't have it in my head, "he says.
"Suddenly we were in a meeting and I saw that the phone wouldn't stop ringing. My manager told me I have the phone on fire, but we can't pick it up, it's rude, we're in a meeting, we can't pick up the phone, we can't answer and I already said: '
Well, let's see something happens because it is not normal for the phone to be this way'
and indeed it was that I was nominated, "he said.
The Latin Grammy ceremony will take place on November 18 at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The 22nd installment will be broadcast in the United States through the Univisión network and in Latin America through TNT, part of WarnerMedia, CNN's parent company.
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