{"id":699104,"date":"2025-11-14T05:35:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T02:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/juana-molina-invents-her-own-pop-language\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T05:35:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T02:35:10","slug":"juana-molina-invents-her-own-pop-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/juana-molina-invents-her-own-pop-language\/","title":{"rendered":"Juana Molina invents her own pop language"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a373b323f3ee\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" 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ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/juana-molina-invents-her-own-pop-language\/#The_boundary-pushing_Argentinian_artist_discusses_megalomania_ego_death_and_her_new_album_DOGA\" >The boundary-pushing Argentinian artist discusses megalomania, ego death, and her new album DOGA.<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"deck\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_boundary-pushing_Argentinian_artist_discusses_megalomania_ego_death_and_her_new_album_DOGA\"><\/span>The boundary-pushing Argentinian artist discusses megalomania, ego death, and her new album <i>DOGA<\/i>.<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"content_blocks\">\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-275730\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left image\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1440,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC09721_nvxktg\/juana-molina-doga-album-interview.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_220,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC09721_nvxktg\/juana-molina-doga-album-interview.jpg 220w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_300,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC09721_nvxktg\/juana-molina-doga-album-interview.jpg 300w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC09721_nvxktg\/juana-molina-doga-album-interview.jpg 400w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC09721_nvxktg\/juana-molina-doga-album-interview.jpg 600w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_750,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC09721_nvxktg\/juana-molina-doga-album-interview.jpg 750w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_840,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC09721_nvxktg\/juana-molina-doga-album-interview.jpg 840w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_960,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC09721_nvxktg\/juana-molina-doga-album-interview.jpg 960w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1260,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC09721_nvxktg\/juana-molina-doga-album-interview.jpg 1260w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1800,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC09721_nvxktg\/juana-molina-doga-album-interview.jpg 1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC09721_nvxktg\/juana-molina-doga-album-interview.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"100vw\" alt=\"Juana Molina invents her own pop language\"><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"img_caption\"><\/p>\n<p>  <span class=\"credit\"><\/p>\n<p>      Photo by Verena Algranti<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-275775\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            Juana Molina\u2019s grandmother lived on the ninth floor of a Buenos Aires building with a slow, noisy elevator. Riding up and down on runs to the corner store below, Molina would sing, improvising against the ugly, squealing drone of its gears. Speaking from her spacious home in the Buenos Aires suburbs half a century later, the morning after her <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_new\" href=\"https:\/\/juanamolina.bandcamp.com\/album\/doga\">new album <i>DOGA<\/i><\/a>\u2019s release, Molina says she\u2019s told this story \u201c100 trillion times\u201d because it describes an essential component of her essence. \u201cThe day I understood it,\u201d she says, \u201cI knew it was something that came with my nature.\u201d\n          <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            That something is, in part, a love of drones \u2014 sustained tones that form the foundations of traditional styles like Indian raga and many modern experimental works. The Argentinian singer, who\u2019s been pushing the boundaries of pop since the mid \u201990s, has become well known for incorporating drones into her music. But it\u2019s also a desire to assert control over the chaos of her everyday life. \u201cI have a problem with my ears,\u201d Molina once told the <i><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_new\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thebeliever.net\/an-interview-with-juana-molina\/\">Believer<\/a><\/i>. \u201cWhen I was living in the city, I threatened people because of some noise they were making that was bothering me.\u201d She\u2019s described herself as a \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_new\" href=\"https:\/\/thequietus.com\/interviews\/juana-molina-interview\/\">control freak<\/a>,\u201d a megalomaniacal figure in her everyday life. It rules her music and recording process.\n          <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content_block paragraph triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-275733\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left image\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1440,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC00034_gu8irj\/juana-molina-doga-album-interview.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_220,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC00034_gu8irj\/juana-molina-doga-album-interview.jpg 220w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_300,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC00034_gu8irj\/juana-molina-doga-album-interview.jpg 300w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC00034_gu8irj\/juana-molina-doga-album-interview.jpg 400w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC00034_gu8irj\/juana-molina-doga-album-interview.jpg 600w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_750,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC00034_gu8irj\/juana-molina-doga-album-interview.jpg 750w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_840,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC00034_gu8irj\/juana-molina-doga-album-interview.jpg 840w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_960,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC00034_gu8irj\/juana-molina-doga-album-interview.jpg 960w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1260,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC00034_gu8irj\/juana-molina-doga-album-interview.jpg 1260w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1800,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC00034_gu8irj\/juana-molina-doga-album-interview.jpg 1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC00034_gu8irj\/juana-molina-doga-album-interview.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"100vw\" alt=\"Juana Molina invents her own pop language\"><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"img_caption\"><\/p>\n<p>  <span class=\"credit\"><\/p>\n<p>      Photo by Verena Algranti<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-275776\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            Part of her \u201ccontrol freak\u201d tendencies stems from a desire to make up for lost time. Molina always wanted to play music like her father, a tango singer, but ended up following in the footsteps of her mother, an actress. She found im<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>te success and was soon given her own sketch comedy show, <i>Juana y sus hermanas<\/i>, but later quit it to return to the album she\u2019d begun writing 10 years prior. Looking back at <i>Rara<\/i>, her 1996 solo debut, she says she also felt cornered into making it on the producer\u2019s terms, who shaped her songs to fit more comfortably into the Latin alternative rock radio template and removed her drones to cram in verse-chorus structures. Molina never made the same mistake again.\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            Each of the seven studio LPs she\u2019s released since then has revealed new facets of her songwriting and arranging \u2014 minimal, lush, hazy, motorik. <i>DOGA<\/i>, her first record in eight years, finds her back behind the wheel with renewed determination. It features some of her most inventive production yet, and lyrics that range from nonsensical (un-trees) to precise (trees). Like any great work of art, it\u2019s the product of an artist stepping outside their default settings to reach for something hidden in the ether.\n          <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-275731\" class=\"content_block diptych triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper half_gutter_right gutter_btm\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_760,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:eco\/DSC00005_lqflg3\/juana-molina-doga-album-interview.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_220,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:eco\/DSC00005_lqflg3\/juana-molina-doga-album-interview.jpg 220w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_300,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:eco\/DSC00005_lqflg3\/juana-molina-doga-album-interview.jpg 300w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:eco\/DSC00005_lqflg3\/juana-molina-doga-album-interview.jpg 400w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:eco\/DSC00005_lqflg3\/juana-molina-doga-album-interview.jpg 600w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_750,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:eco\/DSC00005_lqflg3\/juana-molina-doga-album-interview.jpg 750w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_840,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:eco\/DSC00005_lqflg3\/juana-molina-doga-album-interview.jpg 840w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_960,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:eco\/DSC00005_lqflg3\/juana-molina-doga-album-interview.jpg 960w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1260,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:eco\/DSC00005_lqflg3\/juana-molina-doga-album-interview.jpg 1260w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1800,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:eco\/DSC00005_lqflg3\/juana-molina-doga-album-interview.jpg 1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:eco\/DSC00005_lqflg3\/juana-molina-doga-album-interview.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 50vw\" alt=\"Juana Molina invents her own pop language\"><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"img_caption\"><\/p>\n<p>  <span class=\"credit\"><\/p>\n<p>      Photo by Verena Algranti<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"media_wrapper half_gutter_left\" style=\"\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_760,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:eco\/DSC00008_ooybbs\/juana-molina-doga-album-interview.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_220,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:eco\/DSC00008_ooybbs\/juana-molina-doga-album-interview.jpg 220w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_300,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:eco\/DSC00008_ooybbs\/juana-molina-doga-album-interview.jpg 300w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:eco\/DSC00008_ooybbs\/juana-molina-doga-album-interview.jpg 400w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:eco\/DSC00008_ooybbs\/juana-molina-doga-album-interview.jpg 600w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_750,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:eco\/DSC00008_ooybbs\/juana-molina-doga-album-interview.jpg 750w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_840,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:eco\/DSC00008_ooybbs\/juana-molina-doga-album-interview.jpg 840w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_960,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:eco\/DSC00008_ooybbs\/juana-molina-doga-album-interview.jpg 960w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1260,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:eco\/DSC00008_ooybbs\/juana-molina-doga-album-interview.jpg 1260w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1800,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:eco\/DSC00008_ooybbs\/juana-molina-doga-album-interview.jpg 1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:eco\/DSC00008_ooybbs\/juana-molina-doga-album-interview.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 50vw\" alt=\"Juana Molina invents her own pop language\"><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"img_caption\"><\/p>\n<p>  <span class=\"credit\"><\/p>\n<p>      Photo by Verena Algranti<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-275782\" class=\"content_block paragraph embed triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"uno es \u00e1rbol\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TBWEqHaJO5E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content_block paragraph triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-275777\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            <b>The FADER: You\u2019ve described yourself as a control freak, but you\u2019re able to get into a flow state when you\u2019re making music. Would you describe it as ego death?<\/b>\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            Juana Molina: Ego lives through thought, and when this h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ens to me, there&#8217;s no thought at all, so there&#8217;s no room for ego. One day I was recording some part of a song. I was totally taken by it, and all of a sudden I thought, \u201cThis is really nice!\u201d It was as if I\u2019d woken up from a dream; everything disappeared. I could never finish that melody. Whatever was happening never happened again.\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            I can&#8217;t have thoughts and at the same time do something true. When there are thoughts, intentions, concepts, ego, all bad things happen, everything bad. When you don&#8217;t think and you&#8217;re really <i>there<\/i>, the only result is pure truth. Whether you like it or not is a different problem.\n          <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            <b>How do you get yourself into that state of mind? <\/b>\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            It becomes easier to come to the studio and dive into the pool you were swimming in the day before. I&#8217;m not trying to say I have a muse or spirits inspiring me, but when I&#8217;m very concentrated I feel that I\u2019m guided by the instruments and the sounds, that they transmit me what to do with them. I know I&#8217;m leading, but I feel like I\u2019m being led.\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            I\u2019m sure that\u2019s the way you feel when someone takes you dancing and leads you. I danced a lot with my [younger] sister when we were kids, and I used to lead her, so I\u2019m unable to let myself be led. If a man tries to lead me in a dance, I get all stuck and stiff and worried. In relation to the instruments, I feel more like my sister. They lead me, and I just flow with them. I think those are the best moments in life.\n          <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-275783\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left pull_quote\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"pull_quote\"><p>When I\u2019m very concentrated, I feel that I\u2019m guided by the instruments and the sounds, that they transmit me what to do with them. \u2014Juana Molina<\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-275734\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left image\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1440,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC09782_xwjtpq\/juana-molina-doga-album-interview.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_220,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC09782_xwjtpq\/juana-molina-doga-album-interview.jpg 220w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_300,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC09782_xwjtpq\/juana-molina-doga-album-interview.jpg 300w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC09782_xwjtpq\/juana-molina-doga-album-interview.jpg 400w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC09782_xwjtpq\/juana-molina-doga-album-interview.jpg 600w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_750,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC09782_xwjtpq\/juana-molina-doga-album-interview.jpg 750w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_840,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC09782_xwjtpq\/juana-molina-doga-album-interview.jpg 840w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_960,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC09782_xwjtpq\/juana-molina-doga-album-interview.jpg 960w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1260,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC09782_xwjtpq\/juana-molina-doga-album-interview.jpg 1260w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1800,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC09782_xwjtpq\/juana-molina-doga-album-interview.jpg 1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC09782_xwjtpq\/juana-molina-doga-album-interview.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"100vw\" alt=\"Juana Molina invents her own pop language\"><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"img_caption\"><\/p>\n<p>  <span class=\"credit\"><\/p>\n<p>      Photo by Verena Algranti<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content_block paragraph triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-275778\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            <b>On the one hand, you want complete control. On the other, you can only make music by giving it up. How do you reconcile those two opposing forces in you?<\/b>\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            I am 100% one or the other at different times. There\u2019s going with the flow and allowing myself to be led by the sounds. Once I&#8217;ve recorded, the other me takes over again.\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            <b>Is music the only thing that can put you in that state?<\/b>\n          <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            That and when you\u2019re very much in love.\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            <b>When do lyrics come into this process?<\/b>\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            Lyrics are a bit torturous because they have nothing to do with music. They come from a totally different world. You need to force the lyrics to be disguised as a melody. I don&#8217;t want to just sing nonsense, but every word is like, \u201cHow do I say this to make it fit with <i>these<\/i> vowels and <i>these<\/i> accents and <i>this<\/i> amount of syllables. English is so much easier because 75% of your words are one syllable. Most Spanish words are at least two syllables long, so if you don&#8217;t want to change the melody, you need to find words that have accents where they need to go. <i>That&#8217;s<\/i> work. Making music is not working.\n          <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-275784\" class=\"content_block paragraph embed triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"siestas ah\u00ed\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8rpdUHu5BPg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-275779\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            <b><i>DOGA<\/i> is, of course, not the Spanish word for dog. What does it mean to you?<\/b>\n          <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            Well, it\u2019s a bit self-explanatory; it\u2019s a female dog. I didn&#8217;t think about this until yesterday, when I got a comment that said, \u201cTe amo, perra,\u201d but it\u2019s much nicer than \u201cbitch\u201d or \u201cperra.\u201d But I didn&#8217;t mean it that way at all. I think it\u2019s a strong word, and I like the fact that it&#8217;s made up \u2014 there are a few made-up words in this record.<\/p>\n<p><b>On \u201duno es \u00e1rbol\u201d (\u201cone is tree\u201d), <i>DOGA<\/i>\u2019s opening track, the lyrics repeat themselves until their sound becomes more relevant than their semantic meaning.<\/b>\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            That song came as is. I started to sing and say \u201cuno es \u00e1rbol,\u201d so it was already written, which never happens. I&#8217;m never that lucky. You can&#8217;t really say \u201cone is tree,\u201d and it\u2019s the same oddity in Spanish, but I think that\u2019s why it works.<\/p>\n<p> <b>What\u2019s a \u201cdesarbol\u201d?<\/b>\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            I don&#8217;t know. It doesn&#8217;t exist. It&#8217;s an un-tree, and it came like that. I was possessed by something.\n          <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"desinhumano\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/S8DSDZVD5RI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            <b>\u201csiestas ah\u00ed\u201d is such a perfect, pillowy love song. Did you know you had something special with that one right away?<\/b>\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            We were so happy and so excited about it. [Co-producer Emelio Haro] was like, &#8220;This is the best song ever!\u201d He loved it so much that he took it with him and worked on his own. I said, \u201cWhat are you doing without me?!\u201d But then he came back with lots of great ideas, and we became more and more obsessed.\n          <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            The only thing that made me sad was that he really pushed me to write lyrics for it. I said, \u201cI want this song with no lyrics, as it is right now. I think it&#8217;s perfect.\u201d And he said, \u201cNo, please, Juana. This song needs lyrics.\u201d Finally I wrote some lyrics and it was fine, but I got depressed. I was missing all that ethereal, floating nonsense. So one day, when the song was finished, walking like a cow [to slaughter], I said, \u201cNo! Let\u2019s keep the nonsense [along with the lyrics].\u201d And he said, \u201cYes! This is a good idea.\u201d So the first verse is the way I sang it for the first time, and the second verse has lyrics. Once it came back to its origins, starting with those nonsense words, I felt at peace with the song.\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            The lyrics anchor the songs,  like balloons that are attached to a branch so they don&#8217;t go away. That&#8217;s why I love the parts where the record is completely abstract, where it has no lyrics at all, where I\u2019m <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">travel<\/a>ing with the sounds and everything&#8217;s taking me. Then comes the live show, and it gets more difficult to sing because I&#8217;m not in that state anymore, singing whatever comes to my mind. I don&#8217;t know if I feel like singing those particular nonsense words [from the record], and I\u2019m not sure I\u2019m gonna have the same inspiration to make up those sounds every night.\n          <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content_block paragraph triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-275732\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left image\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1440,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC09809_rttexo\/juana-molina-doga-album-interview.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_220,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC09809_rttexo\/juana-molina-doga-album-interview.jpg 220w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_300,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC09809_rttexo\/juana-molina-doga-album-interview.jpg 300w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC09809_rttexo\/juana-molina-doga-album-interview.jpg 400w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC09809_rttexo\/juana-molina-doga-album-interview.jpg 600w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_750,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC09809_rttexo\/juana-molina-doga-album-interview.jpg 750w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_840,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC09809_rttexo\/juana-molina-doga-album-interview.jpg 840w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_960,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC09809_rttexo\/juana-molina-doga-album-interview.jpg 960w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1260,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC09809_rttexo\/juana-molina-doga-album-interview.jpg 1260w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1800,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC09809_rttexo\/juana-molina-doga-album-interview.jpg 1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC09809_rttexo\/juana-molina-doga-album-interview.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"100vw\" alt=\"Juana Molina invents her own pop language\"><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"img_caption\"><\/p>\n<p>  <span class=\"credit\"><\/p>\n<p>      Photo by Verena Algranti<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-275780\" class=\"content_block paragraph embed triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\">\n    <iframe data-testid=\"embed-iframe\" style=\"border-radius:12px\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/5uFCdSiMEKVDWY5TQ3eEmY?utm_source=generator\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-275781\" class=\"content_block paragraph embed triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\">\n    <iframe allow=\"autoplay *; encrypted-media *;\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"450\" style=\"width:100%;max-width:660px;overflow:hidden;background:transparent;\" sandbox=\"allow-forms allow-popups allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-storage-access-by-user-activation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.music.apple.com\/us\/album\/doga\/1841973440\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content_block paragraph triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"author\">\n    <span><br \/>\n      By <span class=\"credit_name\">Raphael Helfand<\/span><br \/>\n  <\/span><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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