Ana Mena’s “Bellodrama” Song By Song Explained By Herself

Bellodramatics and Bellodramatics, our time has come! Ana Mena has released her highly anticipated second studio album as Bellodrama. It’s a real tribute to this pop of the sixties and seventies that Malaga loves so much. The singer saved that sound, added a lot of brilli brilli and gave us a perfect album. And we’ve been waiting for it for a long time!

Through 13 songs, Ana tells us a story of love and heartbreak: a beautiful drama that could only come out of her head. With such visual descriptions in his song lyrics as Crying at the disco, Red Dawn or Ben & Jerry’sla malagueña invites us to enter into its spirit, sharing its sorrows, its joys and its fears.

“The first time I released a record I was very young, I was 18. Five years have passed since I decided to make another one and it’s a very important moment.“recalls Ana about the launch of her first album Hint in a special listen he prepared for LOS40.

Shortly after releasing an album, Ana began her career in Italy, proving that her voice was perfectly suited to the market of our neighboring country. It was there when he opened his eyes: “I realized that she was a very pop artist and I felt sensitive when I heard those kind of songs, it touched my heart. That’s what I identified with the most. »

It was at this time that Ana began to compose Bellodrama: “I would let off steam by telling my stories and those of my friends. This album was created between Italy and Spain”.

Best of all? That she herself told us how all these songs were born, what stories they have behind them and when she wrote them. Ana Mena reveals all the details of her new album, song by song. This is Ana Mena’s Bellodrama, explained by Ana Mena.

why is it called Bellodrama?

First of all, why did Ana Mena decide to call it Bellodrama? “I needed a word that would define the aftertaste you get when you suffer for love. I needed a word that could define this bitterness, but had this sweet touch. That’s where Bellodrama comes from,” he tells us.

Slowly

“It’s my favorite song on the record. That’s why it’s the first of the album. I spent months and months writing the lyrics. It was one night, when something happened to me that hurt me, that inspired me to write it. Then it all came out in an hour. Moreover, it comes with a very explicit video of the story.

tomorrow God will say

“It’s a title that caught the attention of fans when the tracklist came out. Tomorrow God will say, talking about the 60s and what my father wore as a child, it’s a made in Italy creation and shares that decade of the 60s and 70s of Italian music. It’s an inspiration of that. In the sound, you will see that it has this influence. The chorus is a chewing gum. At the beginning it was going to be called Ce sera”.

a classic

“The light music is a song that made me feel very good. We kept going there and the gunshots kept going around there. A lot of people took credit for the galactic cocoon. I likes. It’s like a fancy insult.”

Ana Mena in ‘Bellodrama’ / Photo courtesy of Sony Music

I caught myself for you with Natalia Lacunza

“I proposed to him at the LOS40 nominees dinner. ‘I’ve got a song you probably haven’t heard, though I’ve downloaded stuff, but I’ve done it at gigs throughout this summer and people kinda know it a little bit, so I would love to sing it with you,” I told Natalia Lacunza.”

Babe

“This song is produced by Dabruk, who is like my brother and who I have been working with since I started releasing my unreleased music. I remember this is a song that when we wrote it I felt that I had to apologize to a person and what better way to do that than by writing a song? It’s like my therapy. I’m coming apart, I’m kicking it all out and I’m new. We wrote it with Djota2021. I liked the way he did his part so much that in the end he stayed. It’s one of the most urban songs on this album”

Ben & Jerry’s

“The song that comes now is one of my favorites on the album because it has that quality punch that I was looking for. I also remember that morning when I was in a studio in Milan, I I wrote this song with an artist who writes that you freak out. His name is Tropique. We wanted to take inspiration from the song x of x. It has this sexier vibe that contrasts with the rest of the songs on the album. “It’s important to me that there are a lot of moods and stories to identify with. We are inspired by Bruno Mars. And he has a very special sound.”

cry in the disco

“It has a little urban side. Also an R&B sound. Also a little Latin, but ultimately still pop. I remember I wrote it to a boy who left in a way I didn’t expect. What I wanted to convey with this song is that I, who am a person who is not used to going out at parties, but when your friends tell you that you have to go out to clear your head and you’re in a disco at a certain point of the night and you say: what the hell am I doing here? If what I want is to be in my bed. If you ask me if I cried at the disco, I didn’t cry, but I also particularly like the song. It’s a song that talks a lot about the concept of Bellodrama because it has this dualism: you cry in a place where you have a good time and this world of always being neat, elegant and you want to leave the best impression, but the reality is different. This can be seen on the album cover. We had many photos to choose from and in the end, the one we least expected was chosen. The gesture of the face represents a lot that encompasses the whole album”.

Red Dawn

“It’s the only ballad on the record. I think every album should have one. We were about to present it at the Sanremo Festival. It was one of the songs I sent. The theme was born out of that feeling you get when the person you’re in love with leaves your house. This emptiness you feel.”

a million moons

“A little meringue and a little butterscotch. A song is coming that was the last one we wrote. In fact, it almost didn’t appear on the record. It is a bachata, which has already played with movement. It’s a song that came out after a lot of thinking about it. We’ve seen it a lot, but I really like it because it’s not one of the most urban bachata I’ve heard lately. Maybe it has influences from Romeo Santos and those bachata records of that time”.

lies

“It has this African vibe. In fact, it’s a collaboration with Sais. I discovered it in a song with Rauw Alejandro. You will see the flow he has and the song has a sound that invites you to move”.

I fall

“It’s a song that was born at the time of A un paso de la luna. It didn’t come out earlier because we changed producers in the middle of the song. Because he couldn’t find his place”