“Our way of combating the ego is to tell super embarrassing things about ourselves”

Sometimes you need to learn to laugh at yourself to be able to move forward. And they know a lot about that Children accumulating anecdotes and life stories that have given rise to the construction of “Bravos” (Vanana, 26), her debut album after a continuous and very brave fight to defend her love for music.

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We met with Dani Belenguer, Rita Dolores and Nacho García at the Vanana Records offices to talk about “perfectionism”egos, madness and the weight of maturity. “In the end the album is like an accepted crisis, with the good and the bad, of the thirty of four people. That is, like you are aware of it and you decide to make an album about it, laughing at yourself, trying to go through that crisis in the most collective way and with the greatest comedy that you can. I think that our best way to combat the ego is to openly tell super embarrassing things about ourselves. This way we drop five points at once,” explains Nacho.

“Democracy is complex, if there was a dictator in the group it would be easier”

After releasing that EP last year “Greatest Hits” and end up submerged in a tornado caused by the, let’s say, obligation to change the name of the project. Children They got their act together, they decided to put aside so much indecision, lack of control and chaos to set a real deadline with which to close what would be their first long-form work. “We have ‘agobiogenesis’, deadlines even help us to create. The closer we are to having to deliver, the more creative we are. We miss a lot of complying with a semi-standardized creation process. We are four presidents of the government. It’s crazy, man”. Although Dani became the main promoter of the new album, since, as his colleagues explain, in the end he “They supported a lot in the work as composer and producer of this”, “Bravos” It is a collective album in which all the members of the band have done their part to make it a reality. “Depending on the day, you might have wanted one thing or another more. Suddenly, what someone had said at the time that you didn’t like, now you love it. We changed our minds all the time until the last moment, because we already had to make a decision. Democracy is complex, if there was a dictator in the group it would be easier. But we have decided that we all have a voice. I mean, over time it is true that you appreciate it. But concentrating on the process of creating the project is crazy. It is truly crazy.”Rita and Dani comment, pointing out that for them all this maelstrom ends with the presentation of the album in Madrid.

“Bravos” It shows us a band without limits when it came to shaping what was going to be their debut album. A “group of colleagues” who give more value to music than anything in life. “Damn, I don’t know how to say it without sounding like a freak, but I think we are very good musicians. And I think that what people call perfectionism in our case is a kind of passion, obsession, admiration for music. And for what others do within the group as well. ‘Fascination’ would be the word. We have a bit of a fascination for our music and for what others do.”

In any case, they face this stage with a great sense of humor, they call themselves without being shy. “people who admit they are ridiculous despite therapy,” They confess that there are many lyrics that are self-referential, but also that others play at taking everything to the extreme as in the case of “Ganar” or “All my potential.” “It talks about that whole culture of cryptobros, of coaches, of being number one, being the most… The starting insight is always us. That is, something ridiculous that happens to us, we laugh at ourselves. But then we often exaggerate it and it seems that we are talking about a cocaine addict, we take it to the limit all the time. That maybe everything comes from things like doing everything to the maximum, working too much, going out too much… But it always ends up becoming a caricature, a character. Simply cartoons.”

Among so much fantasy and fun, it is also true that, sometimes, Children They get serious, they bring out their little hearts, they become vulnerable and defenseless in the face of life. And the truth is that doing so has been great for them to connect with an audience that has applauded this turn in the band away from the constant comedy. “When we wrote ‘Days of Summer’ we felt welcomed as a band and we all ended up crying. It is a very sad song that talks about setting limits, about realizing that you are in the right place and that the best way out is to leave. And, with ‘La Casa’ the same thing happened to us, a song that shows when you realize that you have to leave a place, but admitting that you are guilty and that you recognize that you have to leave because you have not done things well. In the end it seems that in Children it has to be everything happy, fun, that we have to stay on the surface But the truth is that we sink very easily, we have very complex and deep feelings like everyone else.”

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