Sofía Reyes explains why she recognized herself in "Mal de amores"

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(CNN Spanish) -

 Sofía Reyes did not know what it was like to have a broken heart.

There were times, she tells CNN Pop Zone, that she wondered what she was feeling.

That's precisely what "Mal de amores" is about, his long-awaited second album, which arrives after almost six years of work.

In the production, says Sofía Reyes, she speaks with a bit of black humor, irony and yes, pain, about three relationships she lived through, plus that of a friend.

"I lived through very interesting moments where I suddenly said to myself, and the truth sounds a bit masochistic, I don't know what it's like to have a broken heart, what it will feel like, why do people talk about all this in songs and I never Have I felt it?" Said the Mexican singer.

Heartbreak reaches Sofia Reyes

The question of what spite and lovesickness feel like was answered.

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"I had to live it and the truth was very strong. I realized that it hurts physically. It was a strong

, you know? Especially the last two and a half years," says Reyes.

But, as many artists say, that pain that you feel in your gut can mutate into excellent songs, the kind you put on your phone, car or even in a karaoke and sing them so loud that you feel like your voice will run out.

"[It was] very strong, but at the same time it was when I was most inspired and when I wrote the most songs," she adds.

The experience led Reyes to shape what this production is and to understand the different facets of love.

She even got to know herself as a composer, she discovered that the pain she felt she managed to express in the form of irony.

"I realized that when I'm hurt or sad, or I feel that kind of sensation, when I write songs I put a darker humor into it and they're like a game," she says.

"I realized that through a bad love one also learns to love," Reyes adds to Zona Pop CNN.

"1, 2, 3", the song that started it all

For the singer, "1, 2, 3", a song that she released in 2018 but that she wrote about a year and a half before, was the turning point, not only in her career but on a personal level.

To such a level that she assures that the single changed her life.

The theme, according to an Instagram post by the singer, was written on May 26, 2016, and that could well be the date on which this album began to take shape, a year before the Mexican released her first record production, "Louder!"

"I feel like it changed my life because I had just released an album that was much more pop. Come out

, which is a song that has more of this Latin vibe and suddenly we wrote

The song initially didn't even it was for me," Reyes tells CNN Pop Zone.

The theme meant not only the first time that the singer wrote for another artist –something that she changed on a hunch– but also her foray into cumbia.

Reyes remembers that she felt that this song should be hers but that, initially, she was afraid because it was a very different sound from what her audience already knew, more aimed at pop.

"It made me nervous to tell everyone

It made me nervous because [it was] different from what I was doing before," he said.

"It took time to understand the song, the whole collaboration process," said the singer, who recruited Jason Derulo and De La Ghetto for the song.

"1, 2, 3

suddenly explodes in a way that I didn't see coming, nor did my team," he says.

"That's where my first enters as an existential crisis, so to speak," adds Reyes.

Femininity according to Sofía Reyes

The production begins with the theme "Woman", a song with rhythms in the chorus that evoke Arab music and, therefore, makes it hypnotic.

The song talks about the recognition of femininity and feeling somehow empowered.

And that this is the first 

on the album was no coincidence.

"I think that

[has] a very strong message, of

... this is me! This theme is born from a moment in which I really like this person, that if I could [describe] it in a vision, I would see it as in red and purple colors, as with flames, as in twin flames," Reyes tells CNN Pop Zone.

"This song… I feel like this woman awakens a lot in me. It's like starting to ask yourself: what's right? what's wrong? I like you a lot and I'm neither good nor bad! I'm a woman and I can be whatever I want because I'm a woman! And, you take me to other dimensions. I found it very interesting to start the album with this song... I think it's a very strong welcome, "he added.

A Theme for Mystics

Sofía Reyes said that, among those love affairs, she saw

And one of them was the protagonist of the last song on the album "Palo Santo".

She wrote the song for a boy she dated who was mystical, very spiritual, who believed in palo santo, burning salvia (also known as

), among other topics.

It is also the end of the album because, chronologically, it is the last song he wrote for the production.

"Palo Santo

, is the one that closes the album, because it was the last song I wrote. So for me it was logical, this is the closing and it is the most recent emotion I have been in," he says.

"Quickly, I was dating that guy who left out of nowhere. I mean, he came to visit me and out of nowhere [he said]

, and he left. And I did not understand anything! For me it was like a

giant

The song ended up being an escape, in a mocking tone, to the unlikely experience that the singer says she lived.

The singer's not-so-hidden talent

And one of the songs with the most humor in the production is

, in which he talks about a man who doesn't have the, let's say, the guts, to say when something is no longer working in the relationship.

As its name indicates, chickens are heard clucking in the song.

And perhaps one will think, where did Reyes get these chickens to collaborate on his theme?

The answer is as funny as the song: she "performed" them herself.

"That song is hilarious... it's also one of my favorites. I put the chickens in (laughs). In fact, at the beginning, I was the one who made the sound of the chicken, right now I'm not going to do it because I'm embarrassed , but I'm always the one who makes the animal sounds, I swear I record them and then we edit them! I made the sound of the hen first", Reyes confesses with a laugh.

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