“There are fewer and fewer organic bands that work the old way”

TO La La Love You They still like that feeling of sneaking into the rehearsal room, without rushing, and banging drumsticks until they leave there with a song that tells a new piece of their story. Something that is increasingly strange in this music industry that accelerates you and pushes you towards a product for immediate consumption.

We met up with part of the band in a cafeteria in the center of Madrid to talk about “Why are you looking at me like that?” (Subterfuge Records, 2026), the explosion of the band in Mexico and the arrival of their first “world tour”.

The new album is the result of three years of work. Meanwhile the project has not stopped growing and growing. How do you define all this leap that you are experiencing?
David: Well, we live it naturally because in the end it is a career that we have been building for many years. We have the same routines, everything very well done since we were 14 years old.
Roberto: I think that all the things that have happened to us in the band have been so progressive that I think we handle them very naturally. We know artists, friends, younger people who in less time have suddenly found themselves with a tremendous workload on them and they find it difficult to manage everything. We are lucky that everything has been progressive and today we have it very naturalized.

You remain very faithful to your style, to your way of creating. Despite, of course, how difficult it is to maintain that with the demands of the industry and the changes.
David: This is what we trust and what we want to show. We have a bit of old-fashioned ways of doing things, like the bands that compose at the venue. We don’t do it directly in the studio with a producer.
Roberto: As David says, it is true that we have been around for many years and we have a very established way of working that works for us. In that aspect we have changed little. With Alcover, the producer, we have been with him for our entire career, about 15 years, and we continue doing things as we did from the beginning. Now it tends to be done very differently, with composition sessions with this type of producers who are also arrangers.
David: The truth is that we haven’t tried to do it differently either. So we can’t say that it doesn’t work for us. But hey, we are not interested in looking for other ways of doing things because we are comfortable with how we do them.

“We are not going against anything, but there is an audience that listens to La La Love You and does so as a resistance to urban music, to the rhythms of urban music or reggaeton.”

But, on the other hand, it is a very free project when it comes to leaving out prejudices and seeking to expand.
Roberto: Yes, I think there are less and less prejudices. When we started, a few years ago, if you liked rock you didn’t like any other style of music and now, fortunately, those barriers have been broken. So we feel a little freer when it comes to playing with another genre. For example, on this album there is a song with Monsieur Periné that is of a very different style than ours and in the end we try these new sounds, things that perhaps we would not do on our own; Well, it suits us very well.

“All failures” defines very well the DNA of the group and that defense of not having to follow the norm and learn by doing. Tell me a little about that song.
David: Well, it’s a pretty straightforward song. We speak in many songs from a point of view as a failure; but also a little looser, like American movies. And in the end this song talks about that, about the experiences that you have had during your life and that then somehow end up being something good. It’s a bit how we feel.
Roberto: And that song on the album was born almost as a bit of a reaction to everything we had already done on the album. We had songs like “La Medio de la Medio”, which have a point that seems like a half-rumero Estopa; “Jellyfish have no heart”, with those rhythms that are more Latin; and suddenly we felt like making a pop song without further ado and we arranged it without going crazy. We wanted to have a pop song like we would have done when we were fifteen years old.

You talk about that “looser” point of view, but there is also in that same song the phrase that “all the failures in my life have made me better.” A message to life that nothing happens if you make a mistake, because that can take you to many other places.
Roberto: Yes, we are a good example of that. Before, when people asked us for advice, we said that the best thing was not to take anything for granted. And, the truth is, I think that is something that we have done quite well over the years. When things don’t work we always feel that that doesn’t mean they won’t work later and when things work we always think that we shouldn’t take it for granted and that maybe we should always stay alert, because it doesn’t have to work forever. Successes are also temporary.

Tell me a little about that narrative of feeling like an alien, the “different one,” that surrounds the album on a conceptual level.
Roberto: The title of the album has a double spirit. On the one hand, we believe that it represents a very adolescent feeling and La La Love You, regardless of our age, as a project and as a concept is purely adolescent; both the sound and the iconography. I think this defines La La Love You well, that feeling of feeling a bit like a weirdo and rebelling against everything. I think that spirit remains and we wanted to make it clear. And then, it is also true that we are a bit strange in the industry. We’re not the only ones by any means, but in the mainstream there are fewer and fewer bands. Rock is back, but soloist rock is back. There are fewer and fewer organic bands that have a somewhat old-fashioned way of working. So, there we also sometimes feel a little like an alien.

It is a message that also connects a lot with the public, because in the end it is evident that the feeling of community led by you has been well established. You are part of that “you are special” narrative and this makes them feel safe.
David: I think it’s a universal feeling. At some point in your life you end up feeling out of place, out of the ordinary. Therefore, I understand that many people can identify with that. This is what the teenage fans tell us, above all. We are not going against anything, but there is an audience that listens to La La Love You and does so as a resistance to urban music, to the rhythms of urban music or reggaeton. They do feel that this gives them an identity, as I believe it has happened to all of us. When we were teenagers, the bands gave us identity and made us feel a little rebellious about what we liked within the underground or punk.

The reception and impact in Mexico has been spectacular. How have you experienced it?
Roberto: We just played a week ago at the National Auditorium of Mexico and the Mexican audience is incredible. The truth is that it is an audience that gives absolutely everything and more. It was like a milestone for us because great artists who we greatly admire have played there. It’s very crazy when people from a country that is not yours receive you so well. Mexico is literally becoming like our second home, it makes us want to constantly return there because they welcome you so well that it is a pleasure.
David: 10,000 people were shouting like 50,000, but really. I also think that what you were saying about generating is a feeling of something universal that once it enters you and sinks in, a connection is generated that is evident. The public there has also connected a lot with the band’s energy.
Roberto: Yes, it is true that in Mexico it also happens that rock with guitars, in one way or another, has always been much more present perhaps than, for example, here in Spain. When we have spent a few years in Spain in which urban music absolutely dominated and there was not a guitar in the entire musical scene, there was a lot there. Still a niche scene, huh? But it is a scene that has always been very healthy. Because, obviously, then you look at the list of hits and of the top 100, 98 are regional, Mexican and urban.

Well, finally, having broken so many barriers, what do you expect or want next for La La Love You?
Roberto: Something is coming that makes us very excited, which is the first time that we are going to do a tour so big, so ambitious, that we are going to be on four continents. We are going to go through Latin American countries, the United States, some European countries, we are going to go to Japan as well. So, well, it’s a pretty ambitious tour that we’re very excited about. Yes, it’s like our teenage dream come true.
Mia: There are fans of La La Love You in Japan, I mean, I joined the group about eight months ago and I was amazed by it. There are real people waiting for them in Japan, it seems super crazy to me.
Roberto: We said it about Mexico, but in Japan there are literally people for everything. I mean, in Japan they tend to have very specific niches, so if you have the strangest hobby in the world, you go to Japan and you’re going to find a colleague. People have a hard time.

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