“I think you can be a good person and there’s nothing wrong with having a drink, dancing or listening to Bad Bunny”

After his debut album, Nicole Favre He has decided to face the second by leaving his comfort zone in many ways. To do this, not only has he moved to Mexico, a vital country for anyone who wants to make a career in the music industry in Spanish, but he has also written songs that address topics that he never imagined writing before and in genres that are very distant. each other.

“Ley del hielo”, her new single, for example, is a Peruvian waltz to which the 25-year-old artist has given a more international and contemporary face with a trap beat that marks the classic criollo thump. “On the bridge there is a guitar in the style of Óscar Avilés. I listened to it a lot on Spotify and felt that I had to do something like that anyway”, says the composer, during a brief visit to Lima, about the song that has also served her to self-criticize the attitude she used to take at the beginning of the six-year relationship she currently has with her boyfriend.

“I applied the law of ice a lot, which is something ugly and harmful. That is why it is a subject that I also dedicate myself. In social networks one does not show vulnerability. We always upload perfect photos and videos, but we don’t talk about such personal topics, telling your problems is still like a taboo. I wanted to dare to open that part of myself, and what better than with a song”, explains the artist

-And how did the idea of ​​the video come about?

We wanted to represent a fight with your boyfriend, in which no one speaks and third parties are involved, in this case the lawyers. And in the video I am my own lawyer because I do want to speak again. But people think that the story we show is about a divorce and, honestly, it seems brave to me that they interpret it that way because it still has to do with the subject.

-Do you always include Peruvian elements in your songs?

I try to choose very well the song in which I am going to put Peruvian elements so that it is something fine. It has happened to me that I have tried to add drawers to a subject, but I could not make them stand out so much. In this song I did try to Peruvianize it as much as I could. The song is a waltz with a slow little trap that has the time of a waltz. The producer of the song is Mexican and it was very difficult for him to grasp the ‘flow’ of the Peruvian guitar, which is more backward. I sat on the floor and told him: ‘No, no, you have to do it like this.’

-And how have they reacted in Mexico with the subject?

The label loved it. For them it is one of their favorite songs, because it is a different song. I had never done anything like this, with that rhythm, the lyrics are also very special, the way of writing the song is very poetic.

– This song is also part of your new album, which you started showing with “Repítelo” and which is going to be called “Niña buena”. Why that name?

I have grown up in Lima, in a very classist and macho society. I am Catholic, religious and many times the church, society in general, made me feel guilty for everything. I wanted to be a good girl, to do everything well. My friends started drinking early and I didn’t. I feel like I always held back too much to be a good girl. I feel that I inhibited myself in personal, sexual aspects, in everything that has to do with me as a person, because everything gave me a feeling of guilt. I told myself: ‘it’s over, I don’t want to be the good girl anymore’. I think you can be a good person and there’s nothing wrong with having a drink, dogging or listening to Bad Bunny. No song on this record is about a good girl, it’s a really cool concept.

– Have you felt that they have tried to contrast your faith with your art?

Many times people say that the fact that I believe in God with my clothes or things like that is contradicted. But I feel like it has nothing to do with it. In the end God is love and love is for everyone. My values ​​are intact, but now I think there’s nothing wrong with dressing sexy. There are a lot of things in which I used to be closed off a lot and not now, the music industry has helped me to free myself. I have a lot of fans who identify a lot with me. People tell me that faith doesn’t go with such a thing, but I say that it has nothing to do with it. As long as you’re a good person and don’t run over anyone.

– In the end, that is the basis of religions: love and freedom.

The music industry is super ‘open minded’ and that has helped me get out of the square that I had in my head. In many aspects, in the emotional part, with my body, with everything. I feel like I’ve released a lot and I feel great. Some time ago I made a song that contained a bad word and I felt the need to write to the director of Universal México on WhatsApp to ask him if he could say it. He cracked up and told me that obviously he could. But I was like that, at that level I was. There’s a song that won’t make it into this album, but it was nice to write it, because I did it with two friends from the LGBT community who told me their story and how they suffer with their parents. I have written the song as if I were a lesbian, dedicating it to a girl. And it was nice to explore those themes that I wouldn’t have dared before.

– And what do your parents tell you?

My parents have always supported me. Ever since a producer from New York wrote to me and said ‘come record’, they have supported me. They have a lot of respect for my art, they have never gotten into how I dress or what I have to say. They are a blessing.

– This new record also marks your move to Mexico. How has that experience been?

It’s hard being an adult! I am practically an only child, because I have two half-sisters but they are older. My parents are older too, so I’m almost like their granddaughter. They have smug and protected me a lot. Now I had to go out into the world and do everything on my own, from washing, cooking, cleaning the bathroom to taking care of the payments and things that I hadn’t worried about before, but it’s a nice experience. I have been living in Mexico for a month, I think it has helped me grow a lot, but I feel that what is coming is going to be incredible.

– You can always call home to answer questions.

I call my mom to ask her how rice is made. My main dishes are egg fried rice and scrambled egg noodles (laughs).

– And creatively how is this stage in Mexico?

It is a country where many things happen, there is a lot of movement in the music industry. The other time, my A&R wrote to me saying that a producer had arrived from Canada and to sit down and write. Then they also let me know that there is a Danna Paola show and, like that, many things. Many international artists go there, there are many things there.

– And has the distance also reconnected you with Peru?

There I wrote a song called “Máncora”; I wrote it with pure Mexican. I feel like I want to talk more about my country. Now that I need him, I want to have him closer.

– What is “Mancora” about?

ANDyes a cool song, talk about having a cold chichita on the beach. I recorded the video at a college friend’s bachelorette party, I bought a VHS camera and we went there in March. I am super cinematographic and I knew that I could record there. So her bachelorette party is the video for the song.

– While there you have also done concerts and faced other audiences. In addition to singing at MTV MIAW, you also did a solo show at the Summerland festival. How did they receive you?

I was super nervous. We all have insecurities and I said to myself: “Wow, what if they didn’t like it? Nobody knows me here, what a fear to go out and nobody gives me a ball or that there is no one. But they welcomed me very well. They started yelling at me: “Nicole, sister, you’re already Mexican.”