Bad Gyal, the princess of the town | Music

At the end of the century, the princess of the town was Belén Esteban: an anonymous neighborhood girl who had been paired with the bullfighter Jesulín de Ubrique. Her charisma and communication skills will quickly introduce her to the television universe, with her having a spectacular career and becoming an iconic figure in the Spanish imagination. L’exit of the phenomenon? That a large mass of the population identified with its spontaneous, incorrect and working class character. Here, for the young people—be, for a window that oscillates between adolescence and those in their thirties—is Bad Gyal: a 27-year-old singer from Vilassar de Mar who performs for them every day. sis of the matí to go to work at the forn of the cantonada and that it has rained to value his musical project ends to fer-lo conegut arreu del món.

Within the framework of the In-edit festival, it is going to be released The jewela documentary by David Camarero based on the artist’s difficulties in releasing his debut album, of the same name. A delay of more than two years caused by bureaucratic and industrial setbacks, which subjected the composer to episodes of nervousness, impatience and tension among the new community of fans, he desperately claims and not in tea for both the seves desenes of senzills and col ·laboracions lançades previously. The scenes of contracts that do not arrive and of tricks that pressure her to comply with both deadlines They alternate between mass concerts, assistance to fashion weeks from Paris and Milà or the presentation of the award to Talent Jove Internacional by the Reis. Davant of this style of life flaunted and an agenda jammed by an overflowing promotion, the response of Alba Farelo – in the long film the whole thing is Alba, the same as always, the one that is wrapped in a team format for proper friendships—it’s simple: she just flies to the camp, boils a potato and smokes a joint. That is to say, the one of a leisure that could be ours, those who have a very glamorous daily life.

In recent years, in which the hypervigilance of celebrities has been notably exacerbated by the new formats, we can perceive the figure of the artist who arouses sympathy and has changed. We must value the kind individual and force ourselves to present a good face to everyone. photocalls and control the last thing by the multinationals: today, the idolater who shows the corners of one’s own character, who undertakes that the things that do not supply them with volume, that you answer shamelessly. We prefer the famous menys perfecte abans than the one that shines in all the six facets, and for això Bad Gyal guanya devots quan on a huge screen he is shown with condueix, reckless, the cotxe that pilots in one of his six video clips, the complex that he carries both camels or as he considers in fault d’allò that it is precisely the old way of being, when in the minute u of the film he confesses between rialles that “I am a singer of lies, of a box of Camel cigarettes.”

To l’assaig This is not music (Galaxia Gutenberg), the philosopher Jose Luis Pardo assenyala through a wide chronological quadre how music has ceased to be the transcendent and mystical experience that was supposed to end at the time of the 20th century, to the detriment of the dynamics of a mainstream that displace the interest and quality of the work in which it was created. The jewel And the way we approach the artists and singers of our era is the confirmation that the defect is the nova sacralitat. The fact that posing your face and not seeing it is what marks the price of the diamond.