We don’t know how it happened but it’s here. BellodramaAna Mena’s second album, premiered at midnight on March 24 with 15 songs full of personal experiences in which the Malaga woman opens her heart to us in her own tribute to pop. A whole roller coaster of emotions in which we rode from the beginning to go through with the artist some of his vital anecdotes of the last two years.
Slowly opens the album in the best way. The singer has commented more than once that it’s her favorite song on the album and we already understand why. And it perfectly represents the overall concept of Bellodrama: a very danceable pop with sounds between the retro and the current where the singer recalls a night of passion with a younger man who does not go out of his headan experience that obsesses her and that she would like to repeat.
“If I say I forgot you, what’s up”
The singer leaves the halls of the house where it all happened to make way for an apology with Babea song with Dejota2021 that was born out of a need to “ask someone for forgiveness” through the therapy that songwriting in the studio represents. Thus, he enters the more urban wing of the album where he flirts with reggaeton at the hands of the Venezuelan producer and artist.
After the most urban rhythms, Ana Mena changes the third to electric guitars to dedicate a song to girls with erratic pulses and galactic cocoons. a classic appears on the record to slow down the tempo and present us with a story we can all relate to: a boy meets a girl but the girl doesn’t suit him, everyone around them condemns the relationship from the start but the love that is born of chance does not go away. But what happens when a subtle change comes through the other person? Indifference is a real nuisance.
Con Me he pillao x ti Ana Mena draws on the reel and her personal experiences to tell us about a summer crush that never materialized with Natalia Lacunza, who joins the theme of the malagueña in a story where their voices blend perfectly. But if we thought we had time to breathe on this roller coaster of emotions cry in the disco comes to show us the opposite. And it is that this is another of the topics where we come to understand the title of this project. Ana Mena breaks the record of crying alone at the disco with a pop song that will have us moving our hips as a tear falls thinking of all that could have been and was notpointing a direct arrow at broken hearts and pricking the wound surrounded by smoke and alcohol.
A mix of styles and genres: nothing can resist it
We enter the second half of the album and the artist dares more than ever to mix styles and genress. And tomorrow God will say we find inspiration in the Italian pop that has accompanied her in recent years for a few minutes later to listen to a bachata with The Night of a Thousand Moonswhere she finds her trademark, her whisper “Ana Mena, from Malaga to the world”to offer us a theme directly inspired by the music of Romeo Santos.
Latin rhythms and the influence of electronica continue with I falljust to keep us in a fake party mood and enjoy it for a few more minutes, because then La malagueña only needs a guitar and her voice to make our hair stand on end in what the BALLAD is with a capital letter on this album: Red Dawn. A song in which he recounts the last night of a relationship. What happens when our plans for the future vanish before our eyes overnight, when we wish the hands of the clock would only stop for a few minutes and stay frozen in an instant? What happens when tomorrow there will be no more “us”? the artist puts himself in a situation and manages to make us cry.
In lieshowever, takes us to the Caribbean and urban rhythms characteristic of the trajectory of Ir Sais (the artist who collaborates with her on the song and who has worked with singers of the stature of Rauw Alejandro and Manuel Turizo) to tell us the story of a mimeograph, of two people between whom there is always a very strong attraction despite not being together. Moving on and letting go of apologies is the only step needed to see each other again.
“Who should I call when twelve o’clock strikes?” »
The last part of the disc is extremely familiar to us. Ana Mena closes Bellodrama in style with four songs that have accompanied us, at least, throughout the last year. The twelfth song couldn’t be other than Tired 12 with Belinda. This electropop hit has been our faithful companion throughout the summer on festive evenings and looks like the flip side of cry in the disco. If in the previous song that of Estepona was crying in the middle of the dance floor remembering a failed relationship, out of nostalgia and trying to forget an old love, Tired 12 change third party to celebrate the positive of these encounters: encounter in life with a person who has known us better than anyone. The beautiful part of all the drama that followed that, when midnight rolls around, inadvertently transports us to a better place.
Con light music it reduces the tempo and takes us towards a more typical melody of the 70s, whose aesthetics and sound inspired the artist during the realization of this last work. And it is that this Spanish version of very light music by Colapesce and Dimartino fits like a glove to the airy voice of our favorite Italian from Malaga, whose verses also perfectly represent one of the effects of her music on her fans: very light music for our ears that escapes us and accompanies us in difficult times, extremely catchy songs that reach our thoughts to stay for daysthat pop into our heads in the middle of the dance floor and make us wonder “what the fuck are you doing at this fucking party?”.
Ana Mena ends the album in style with one step away from the moon there would light uptwo of the songs with which she had success in Italy and Spain and which in recent years have paved the way so that today we can see her where she is, fulfilling his dream of releasing his second album. The artist does not give up for a second on the songs that led her to this moment and their inclusion on the album as bonus tracks is proof of this. Malaga has already conquered the world and Ana Mena our hearts. In Bellodrama opens wide to bear witness to his personal experiences and his teaching is clear: There are things that can only be overcome by dancing and crying at the same time.