Interview to May and Mar Lucas: “We are not Taylor Swift, nor we want” | Interviews

Although they are barely taking their first steps in the industry, Both May and Mar Lucas have a clear vision of where they want to go. It shows that they aspire high, but without getting lost on the road, sometimes convulsive, that they have to travel. They have their feet on the ground, clear ideas and an ambition they control not to lose focus. Now, fortunately, they join forces in Tell youa collaboration that was born from the May project and needed an artist capable of entering without regard to his sensual and electronic universe. This is the beginning of a beautiful friendship, and a way of expanding its brands with an alliance that, if it is well, can last over time

Did you meet before or after ‘telling you’?

May: I was preparing the new album and we had Tell youwhich was very single, very commercial. I talked to my manager and we were moving it with someone. The first one that came to mind was Mar. I like to dance live and we saw her perfect for that.

Mar Lucas: I got the song, I loved and decided to ride from minute one. And the video clip was crazy. In addition, it makes us more excited to sing and dance it live.

When you listen to the song sounds to May. Did it cost you to merge with your universe?

Mar Lucas: It was very easy. Álvaro has a beautiful voice and I am very pro to any song with a mixed, man and woman voice, that adds to him. I tried to put that part and the song was incredible.

Ana Arden is the director of the video clip and also the thinking head of the entire narrative proposal. How has it been to work with the person who has been part of, for example, the project of Charli XCX and Troye Sivan?

Mar Lucas: The goal of the video clip was to feel that empowerment and sensuality by the two. We are in a second stage of our career where we want that to look. It was the first time I worked with Ana Arden and I fell in love. I remember watching the video, still without color, and it was crazy.

Were you clear about the references you wanted to capture on the screen?

May: Arden made the video clip because he had already worked with her before in a thing that has not yet come out. He is a professional Superguay. It has a lot of projection and, even so, the project was very cool. He put many facilities. We sent him the song and the main thing we wanted was to represent desire and passion. For example, the moment of the rope, that tension that ultimately ends up. We didn’t want to go crazy and set up a very cinematographic video clip. We did not want to make a movie, we decided to focus on making different planes that would represent that idea.

Do you have high expectations?

May: Music is not based on having a goal. It is very frustrating if you take it as the song has to be a world hit and get prizes. It is a song that emerged, it was a song, and forward. We decided that it was the first because when I was in the study I was excited to hear it. The tears skipped me when we saw that we had such a great song. That I have to arrive, but it makes me happy to get it out.

Mar Lucas: I never put expectations in what I do. We do it with all the love of the world, because music is what we like. From there, what happens with the song is the decision of the people. Each song is like a child, now I just had a child with Álvaro (laughs). Now you have to pamper it, but it has already left and belongs to the people.

When you are involved in the study, do not have that thought on the head of finding the topic that gives you streams?

Mar Lucas: Obviously, when there are numbers, you get very happy because that means it is connected to people. But I do a song because I like it. That is a hit, today, is a Russian roulette. You never know when it will be. There are songs that I listen, they don’t seem it to me and then they are world hits. It is a suffering to obsess you with that. Now we can experience more, we are finding our sound and we have the lowest pressure to play a little and not look for the hit so much.

May: You can try to be more commercial, but once you develop the idea, it’s time to pamper it and do what you want. In Season ithe first work I did, for example, were more introspective lyrics, rarest sounds. Now I am in a more commercial stage, but because I feel like it. Before I needed to open on a channel and, because of the things that have happened to me, I feel like doing happy songs.

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This song is presented as the first advance of your debut album. Will the line of ‘tell you’ follow?

May: In the first EP they were the same references. Now I have maintained the electronic component, as in Tell youbut I have opened horizons. There are songs that have more than trap. There are more Latin songs. I maintain the same color palette, but I have varied the genres. I wanted to try different things and find myself.

What will happen to the concept of ‘Season’?

May: The album comes out, but that album includes the EP. Now it comes out Season IIbut we saw that it was a robbery for the fan to get two EP and then album. We have decided that, in physical, we are going to get only one. We don’t want to get 40,000 things. We are not Taylor Swift, nor do we want. It is also great, but it is more lying at the commercial level.

In your case, Mar, you got disc last year, but since then you have fully got into the single Market. Are there plans to encompass those songs in an album or, on the contrary, do you want to build something more conceptual?

Sea: My first album was called The innocent and expressed that innocence I had then. When I finished it, I was clear that I wanted to get an EP of deeper songs, with very hard lyrics. Rattan, For you and It has not been easy It is the trilogy that encompasses what that bump has been. This second album is everything that comes at this stage. That is why I wanted to add my song in May, because it is on the way to what I want in this new era.

“Tell you, bind two artists in full boom.” Do you feel that way, at a time when the industry also gives you your place?

Mar Lucas: We are both at a very good time. I don’t know if booming, but in the end we are taking steps. I don’t know if very big or very small, but firm. I have all the patience of the world, go little by little, but putting the brick to do something big.

May: I am at a time when I see recognition in people of the industry. I am very satisfied with my career and very proud of the songs that have come out and are about to leave. I had to adapt very fast and I have asked to find what I wanted soon.

How do you take with the headlines that refer to you as the “Troye Sivan Spanish”?

May: At first I overwhelmed me. There was a time when I had enough hate, many people told me that. It has been fluctuating in my head in many ways. On the one hand, I can’t find so many similarities. If we talk about references, if I have copied someone, it has been Charli XCX, not Troye Sivan. The album has nothing to do. Sometimes it is a more aesthetic issue than musical. And, even if it were, there are people who judge the work of others a lot and we are not very young. It is normal for us to have references and influences. You don’t have to be so hard with that because we are all finding ourselves.

At this time, have your ambitions change?

Mar Lucas: They add, but the goal is the same from the beginning. Every day you fight for the same goal. Smaller goals are entering until they get up.

May: I feel that I have changed a lot because my route has been from zero to one hundred. When I entered I had a very different vision. I saw everything in roses. My ambitions were to make a song with Ariana Grande and win a Grammy. Now I see it different, levels are unlocked. A goal can now be to make a record of a specific genre.

Mar, are you still having to demonstrate more than other artists for having started on social networks?

Mar Lucas: Obviously, and keep passing. I always judge me more to come from where I come. It’s funny to me because artists really, now, have to be content creators and most end up. Social networks greatly influence music. I understand that there are artists who complain about that, but you have to adapt. It is a mistake to judge me for being a creator of content because, in addition, I want to be. Time speaks more than anything and I give him time on time. While doing good music people will stop saying nonsense. And I like that they will never achieve it because I love to shut up mouths.

What would you like to become the music industry?

May: What makes me most illusion is to be able to fill a stadium. But not to fill, but because if I get to that point I would have a budget to make the show I want to do. In these beginnings I have done very cool things with very little presum. Things are very expensive, but doing a concert is very expensive. The staff is expensive. I want to break that barrier and be like Beyoncé to get a horse (laughs). My dream is to be able to have enough support to materialize very difficult things to do.

Mar Lucas: There are many dreams and visualize many things, but I want to leave my grain of sand in history. That my name remembers.