Blair opened the Taylor Swift shows in River, composed for Lali and is the Argentine voice to discover
With 23 years, Blair It is one of the emerging artists with the greatest projection in the new Argentine pop-rock scene. Your debut album, the remarkable Crying at the party (2022), delivered memorable songs like “Complementary opposite” and “Rothmans”, Who not only caught the specialized criticism of the neighboring shore, but led her to exhaust functions in Buenos Aires theaters and to participate in large festivals such as Cosquín Rock and Lollapalooza. In Uruguay, in addition, she presented himself in the Good vibes festival.
Native of Bahía Blanca, Blair won notoriety when opening the three shows that Taylor Swift He offered in 2023 at the Monumental Stadium of River. Now publish Scorpios bara conceptual album of gloomy tone and songs with airs of Hit, accompanied by a medium -up with winks to the universe of David Lynch and the participation of the writer Mariana Enriquez. To that is added his collaboration with Lali: co-composed “Sexy”, One of the wildest issues of Don’t go to attend when the demon calls.
But who is the voice to follow to understand where the new Argentine scene is going? Blair is, in reality, Julieta Ordoricaan artist who approached music along a different path. He debuted in 2019 singing Trap while studying graphic design, but in the pandemic he decided to change course. As Rolling Stone told Rolling, in those days of confinement he met again with the music that marked his adolescence – The Cure, Fleetwood Mac, The Smiths, Kate Bush and several eighties hymns – and that disrupted her. “It was like that I had washed my brain and suddenly they reconnected me again,” he said.
That influence redefined his proposal, and Blair re -founded his work with Crying at the partyhis first big step. It is a heartbreak album with guitar songs, catchy melodies and confessional lyrics (“I see my dreams throw yourself through the balcony, / but I am not afraid,” he sings in “Yo & I”). After that debut, Blair continued to build his sound identity with themes such as “The entire Universe”, a collaboration with Island of Faces that accumulates 720 thousand views in Spotify. That was followed by an unexpected milestone: the opening of the Taylor Swift show.
In dialogue with El País, Blair laughs when he remembers how everything was given. “It was very little, because up to 72 hours before I didn’t even have entrance,” he says. Swift declared fan, had started a networks in networks to be part of The Eras Tour In Buenos Aires. An online petition amplified the movement, the media echoed and the matter got out of hand. “A group of fans supported me, and another … well, it was more heavy. They even made death threats. Everything very crazy.”
In the end, Louta was chosen, so Blair had lost hope. Until a message received in the previous one sounded revenge. “Che, do you want to come to sing with Louta? Tomorrow at this time you have to be here to rehearse,” said the text. “As I am from Bahía Blanca, which is nine hours from Buenos Aires, that day I took the first plane of my life, alone and without knowing what an airport was, to be there. It was all like a movie,” he says.
He sang three days in a row “Yesterday I saw you” and “Uacho”, In front of thousands of people who discovered it. And, in case it was little, he fulfilled a dream.“ I remember that the technicians showed me the platforms and guitars of Taylor, who know them by heart. He even passed me after one of the shows. When I see videos of her singing in Tokyo, I think: ‘I was on that same stage’. It is very crazy. ”
After such experience, Blair began to delineate his second record chapter with a more ambitious and dark proposal. He wanted to launch a conceptual adventure inspired by the personality of Laura Palmer, the protagonist of Twin Peaks. “She has an innocent personality, but she keeps a lot of traumas and layers of horrible things,” he explains. “I was interested in that attitude of hiding their suffering into the world.”
That fascination with the gloomy resulted in the creation of Teresa, a young woman raised in a church that crosses a crisis of faith and identity. His plan was to explore the duality between heaven and hell, but from another perspective: the first represented by a temple; the second, by a bad death bar called Scorpios bar.
The song that inaugurated that universe was “I tried to save God”, which starts delicately but is loading with tension and anger as Blair – now in Teresa’s skin – spits his regrets: “I pray so strongly (…) / I even set up my house, / And the light never appeared, / I repeat the same prayer, / to ask for all except me.” Blair still remembers what he felt when he met the letter finished. “In Crying at the party The songs were of heartbreak, and now I was talking about a deeper and more mature problem, which has nothing to do with the other: guilt has no other; She is the problem. “
Something hints into the introduction of Scorpios barin which Blair repeats, as if it were a cradle song, a phrase that sounds like a sentence: “I was born alone, I grew up, I feel alone, I will die alone.” This gives way to “Everything I have”, a song as bright as Teresa’s blond hair. However, behind that radial pop, another intention is hidden: “I want to know what it feels like (…) that death finds me and flirts with my neck,” he sings.
As the album advance, the protagonist lets her anger out of misunderstanding. “God is an excuse to blame someone,” he tells El País. And in the interlude “gross sins”, read by Mariana Enriquezthe plan is explained: “I think that the only way to exorcise this pain is to provoke it,” suggests before the final jump. In the medium -up, the story goes on to tell scorpios and teresa, now with hair as dark as its intentions, meets the rapper Dillom To sing the aggressive “Living meat”, Which speaks of committing a murder.
I’m not going to spoile, but the rest is a disturbing descent that deserves to be seen in that dark tones medium. Scorpios bar It is a confirmation disc: Blair He is an artist who deserves to be discovered.
