Aitana: "I want young people who follow me to see that women can do what they propose"

The casting number of Operation Triunfo 1.727.A butterfly as a symbol of metamorphosis and evolution.A Sunflower who shares with her best friend.The word munay (of Quechua, pure love), which takes the same as its three cousins since the age of 16.Lyrics B and C, the initials of their parents, Belén and Cosme.A soup bowl, its favorite food and the name of one of its two bitches.Touring the messages that decorate the skin of Aitana (1999, San Clemente de Llobregat) is to glimpse its vibrant vital trajectory.

Authentic.Spontaneous.Honest.This is the pop star.A roller mountain of feelings that dreams of continuing to be a elder singer, when he told his mother that he wanted to be a hairdressing.It has 36 platinum records and 12 gold records.It is the new image of Tous.He just finished 11 reasons, his second solo tour, of which he sold out tickets.Has written a book.It has endless awards, including the waves to the musical phenomenon of the year and the best artist in Spain at the MTV Europe Music Awards.Yves Saint Laurent Beauty ambassador, is finishing recording his third album and will soon go from Tour to Latin America.A cycle of emotions.

Do you pinch to know that you don't live in a dream?

Is incredible.Since I left the academy I have not stopped working, and I haven't wanted it either.I am very grateful for the people who listen to me, who trusts me...

When you won the waves, who did you call?

To my parents.I am the only child and, although I am not especially familiar, they are the pillars of my life.Having that statuette, like other people I admire, like Dani Martín, Pablo Alborán or Rosalia, is a real barbarity.

And right now what are you going?

(Look at his manager, Olga, and ask him if he can tell what is coming.This is denied with the head).I will tell you that, shortly, I will start a tour of Latin America and gradually I will get different singles, such as Berlin and Formentera, from the third album, which I am still recording.

What will this album be like?

A little more sensual, electronic, danceable..., always inside pop.In my previous two I speak of love, although it is a love too much of movie.This is more real.

How many songs have you composed of napkins?

I'm not so cool.As I suffer from insomnia, my head goes to a thousand before sleep, and that's when many letters occur to me.I turn on the mobile and write in notes.

When did you take a micro for the first time?

During a New Year's Eve, at my aunt Carmen's house.It was the first time I sang for the family.Then, I went to a music school, and on a Thursday of each month we sang to the customers of a cafeteria in Gavá what we had rehearsed.Then it was for three million viewers.

At the beginning of the trade, did you always have clear that you could look for other options if this did not work?

I made myself known with 18 years, and I was clear that, if I didn't go out, I would try otherwise or take another way, how to continue studying at the university and look for a parallel job.At first I raised if it was done for this, if I was going to be worth or like in the long term.I didn't want to see myself with the obligation to have to take the opportunity because.Then I visualized myself as a child, in my room, and thought: "If you always wanted".That's why I never saw my start of the career as if it were the end of the world, I did not press, because it is not healthy.I worked and continue working hard to fight for my dream and prevail - because things are not given - but without believing that without that I am nothing.

What is your antidote to avoid pressure?

My greatest success is not having hidden under a fictitious figure.My family every day makes me aware of how lucky I am.My profession is like any other.The only thing that varies is that people recognize you down the street.And I appreciate it, although I have never lost the sense of reality.There is a girl, Elena, who has cancer, and comes to all concerts and record firms.She is a fighter.And he always tells me that my songs have helped her overcome bad times.You listen to that and, of course, you cry.If what I do to you serves you and it does well, for me I have already won everything.

How do you control emotional fluctuations?

I like to go to the psychologist and be aware of what is happening to me.But I also believe that, with the age I have and the experiences I am experiencing, it is normal to be up in a roller coaster.

What are your priorities?

Enjoy my work and health.And, if at any time I see that I cannot give more of me, stop.I suffer from edema on the vocal cords and, when I feel that I can get sick or get dysfonic, unemployment.

Do you have any ritual before going on stage?

Neither.I do it calm because I know that this audience is there for me, and I think about how they will enjoy and on the magical night that will happen.Because it's what I want to offer you.And that still gives me more strength.

You are Yves Saint Laurent Beauty ambassador.What are your infallible if we talk about makeup?

Before being an image, I already used many of its products.In my day to day, a little concealer, blush and mascara.And some lipstick with some tone.

You interpreted the bad and you broke taboos with not one more.Do you think music helps on the way to equality?

Of course, because many people reach.I will never write a song where a woman's body is cosified or lean on micromachism.I am cautious and I take care of what I am talking about.I am afraid of going out to the street, because I am fearful, and today I do not do it.You just have to see the amount of documentaries on the platforms about Marta del Castillo, the Alcàsser girls...You traumatize more.There are cases in those who do not know who is the murderer or where is the body.If you look, they are always women.

That is why it is so important that we continue to rise the voice.

And that we expose the problem.That we inform ourselves and educate and that we are aware as a society of this reality.Because nobody has a feminism card.

Is it an issue that worries you?

Of course, who doesn't?We have to keep fighting.To assume that we have everything done very scared me.Every day there are femicides, there are psychological and physical abuse, there are complaints...It makes me funny when they say we are better than we were before.A little yes, because many women in the past have fought for us and our rights, they have been brave when leaving and telling what was happening.So, please, let's not fall into the trap of thinking that everything is fine, because not.We have to continue so as not to go back in the cattle and for those who come behind.So that in the future there is a day when there is not a single death in the world for gender violence.

Are you afraid of being called a radical feminist?

To say that I am in favor of equality and not violence?Is that my message is that.I am a feminist, and I learn daily what it entails.No flags or labels.You are followed by young people, and, in some way, I want to reflect that women can do what we set out.What kind of society are we becoming, that we do not stop pointing and accusing because nothing seems good to us?

And what other things do you worry?

Many, especially, the future of our planet.I know we have important problems in this world, but the main one is, without a doubt, the world itself.

What would you take from 2021 to 2022?

More confidence in myself and in the decisions I make.That maturity that I have acquired over time.I am also very improvised, let's see what 2022 holds.

Styling Video Credits: Blazer MassCob.Avellaneda bra.Jeans Elisabetta Franchi.Giuseppe Zanotti boots.

Makeup: Fer Martínez for Yves Saint Laurent Beauty.Hairdressing: Jesús de Paula.