Maria Zardoya channels the unique Spanish lyrics and provides a “completely different perspective” within the second verse of “Ojos Tristes”
Jeanette came upon that Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco had sampled her basic “El Muchacho de Los Ojos Tristes” simply this morning. The Spanish singer, who rose to prominence within the Seventies and Eighties, acquired a textual content from her buddy (and new collaborator) Lucas Bun informing her of Gomez and Blanco’s “Ojos Tristes,” which interpolates her basic with an added English lyric and second verse from The Marias. Jeanette liked it.
“I’ll let you know the reality: It’s stunning,” she tells Rolling Stone over the telephone from Spain. “I heard only a snippet this morning, however have now listened to the entire thing simply earlier than chatting with you.”
“It’s a basic cowl however she has added a contemporary twist to it whereas respecting the essence of the unique music,” she provides. “I feel they’ve performed such a beautiful job. It’s pretty.”
On Jeanette’s 1981 authentic, she sings to a younger man she’s simply met “with unhappy eyes, who lives alone and wishes love.” On Gomez and Blanco’s model, Gomez sings a primary verse in English earlier than Maria Zardoya of the Marías takes on a canopy of Jeanette’s Spanish music. Zardoya additionally provides “a distinct perspective” within the second verse to convey the passage of time: “Antes eran tus ojos lloviendo en otoño/Y ahora son los míos.” (In English: “Earlier than, it was your eyes raining in autumn/And now it’s mine.”)
Jeanette says she was “stunned” to listen to the lyrical change, which supplies an entire new that means to the unique, written by songwriter Manuel Alejandro. “At first, I used to be like, ‘What is that this?’ However as soon as I listened to all of it, I believed it was superbly performed,” she says. “I simply despatched the music to Manuel Alejandro. And he mentioned he heard it and actually loved it.”
Jeanette says she’s heard dozens of covers of her songs — “some good ones, some not-so-great,” she jokes — however loved Gomez and Blanco’s model. She additionally mentions a canopy performed by Palestinian-Chilean star Elyanna. “She did a stunning model however with a contact of her Arabic sound,” she says. “All of us interpret the songs as we wish and I feel that’s stunning.”
Whereas Gomez leaves the singing-in-Spanish to Zardoya on “Ojos Tristes,” she muses within the language on the spoken outro of “How Does It Really feel to Be Forgotten” on I Mentioned I Love You First, which dropped Friday.
Jeanette, in the meantime, joined rising artist Lucas Bun — the artist who knowledgeable her of Gomez and Blanco’s pattern — for “Como Un Cristal” simply this week. “I don’t do collaborations with no function, however he despatched me a music that I liked, and I mentioned ‘Let’s do it,’” she says. “He sings so attractive que te cagas. He’s an incredible vocalist.”
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She’s additionally going to carry her joint tour with “Dama Del Amanacer” singer Juan Bau to Central America later this spring. “At the same time as time has passed by, I’m nonetheless working and receiving applause from so many individuals,” she says.
Oh, and if Gomez and Zardoya need her to affix them on a model of “Ojos Tristes,” she’s in: “I’m wondering why they didn’t ask me to collaborate!”
