In a book he analyzes the lyrics of his songs, which he believes occupy a prominent place in the Spanish and Latin song book.
Miguel Bosé says he is at peace with himself and has no grudge against anyone or anything. Based in Mexico, he makes no secret of his detachment and the pessimism he feels for Spain, where he became an icon of modernity and sexual freedom. Faced with the raw and savage imprint of his father, the bullfighter Luis Miguel Dominguín, Bosé wanted to be something different, an androgynous and sophisticated creature who escaped the prevailing ideal of masculinity at the time. The singer says he has not lost his passion. Now that he is unable to devote himself to acting due to hoarseness of probably emotional origin, he throws himself completely into writing. He just published “Secret History of My Best Songs” (Espasa), a book where he discusses the vicissitudes surrounding his most popular songs
–If you had to make a song about freedom now, as you did in 1977, what aspects would it affect?
-I do not know. In any case, the freedoms we had in the Transition were greater and of better quality than now. This social and political moment that we are experiencing, not only in Spain but all over the world, is leaning more and more towards the control of the citizen. Today it is tamed in schools, it is not taught to think.
He lives in Mexico City. Is it because you couldn’t live the life you wanted in Spain?
I left when my children were very young. That paternity aroused unhealthy interest and persecution. I had 24-hour security at the door of my house. And there came a time when I said to myself, “it’s over.” There is very little that binds me to Spain, only my heart and roots.
How do you see Spain from a distance?
–I have participated in campaigns in favor of the PSOE, but links we bet on have disappeared. Everything we built, a Scandinavian-style social democracy that helped put Spain on the map, has been destroyed by those young Bolivarians. Zapatero has already started killing everything in his second legislature. But it’s your problem, it’s not mine anymore.
Are you not planning to return to Spain?
– To work, yes, but to live, for now, no. My children will grow up here, in Mexico; They will probably go to study in the United States because they were born there and have American nationality. In Europe, the future is very uncertain, Europe is facing an irreversible and irreparable fall. The helm is changing, the hegemony of the West is coming to an end.
–In your book you say that you have not yet decided whether you are a worthy heir and descendant of the caste you have imprinted in your DNA. Are you still in that uncertainty?
–I have samurai blood, bullfighter blood and Milanese blood.
– By the way, what do you think of bullfighting?
“I’m not going to spit on the plate you fed me.”
Do you think your successor is here?
-No. A successor with integrity as such, no. It is true that I have left influences here and there. Some are even very visible. But a successor they say is the next Miguel Bosé, No. Goodness. My mold was broken.
–In the song ‘Lento’ you talk about a fascinating sexual desire. Can lust be a prison?
-It can be if you don’t know how to get out. Food and politics can be a prison. Anything that can be entered and the exit is not found is bad.
-Some of his lyrics are very carnal, they have a sex drive typical of cannibals.
– In love, lovers eat each other, sometimes very explicitly, and not only with kisses. There is a cannibal memory in that ritual, love is a protocol that imitates food.
– Can you imagine sex without passion?
There is sex that is just sex. And there is a passionate sex that is sometimes hard and also exists. When given and practiced, it is liberating.
–How did heroin decimate her friends and her generation?
— There were very few who remained outside, who never passed that door, and myself included. And of all my friends, only three managed to get out of that phase, although they did so with very serious consequences. The rest is underground.
-There is a trace of bitterness in the book. He talks about “notorious” and “sour blood”
I have no grudges or grudges against anyone. I am immensely grateful for what I have had to live and for the family I have had.
– Is it extremely fragile or extremely weak?
-People who are strong, if they give us a little touch, a little bite in the exact part, we break.
– Did you suffer much from the imposition of a model of masculinity as rude and testosterone-laden, like the one your father represented?
-I suffered a lot. It was a disaster. My childhood was very difficult, very lonely, because I was clearly destined to become the heir to a bullfighter and I didn’t get enough grades. It should have been something else.
– And though your father is gone, have you been able to make peace with him?
–I was able to write my two books because I am at peace with my memories.
–Would you give a kidney to compose a sublime song?
–I don’t have to donate a kidney to make a song: I have plenty of inspiration. I have songs of mine that are exceptional and also recognized worldwide: ‘Si tú no vuelves’, ‘Nada particular’, ‘Bambú, ‘Nena’, ‘Bandido’, ‘Sevilla’… They have nothing to envy . . My songs are already part of the popular Spanish and Latin song book.
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Do you feel crushed by the record industry?
–And who doesn’t? I was lucky enough to live the years in which the artist, his repertoire and evolution were deployed. The album ‘Papito’ participated in the last death rattle of record selling music. From there it’s over.
Source: La Verdad
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