dani dicostas has promoted ‘Amores viajeros’, our penultimate Album of the Week, with previews such as ‘Clímax’ and ‘Estadios’. Right now their most listened to song is ‘Ya no llueve’, the “focus track” of the departure day, which we choose as Song of the Day for this Monday.
In a recent interview, Dani told us that ‘Ya no llueve’ came out of a moment of depression: «It was born a couple of years ago at home. I wasn’t having the best time. I had been with the project for three years, I had released ‘Postdata’ a year ago, I didn’t have a gig, I didn’t have a new project… and it was a moment of really realizing how complicated it was to move this forward. “I have a team, a family and good friends, but I felt alone in the sense of ‘if I don’t push this hard, that’s it, it ends here.'”
He continues: «I started to feel like I had never felt before, I locked myself away a lot. It was also very difficult for me to go to social music events, because I couldn’t find my place either. I didn’t want to be in places where I located everyone, but I didn’t locate myself. The good thing is that I started playing with Logic. I spent many hours on the computer playing with the songs and thanks to that I began to lay out some songs and there the first demos of what the album is today were born. One of the first was ‘It’s not raining anymore’.
However, then he decided to open windows, so the song opens up in turn: «’It’s not raining anymore’ is the darkest song on the entire album and yet it opens up and ends up being very bright. I like to play with that: deeper or sad emotions, but with the songs transform them into something else.
Dani Dicostas is indeed overwhelmed in the first part of the song, very downcast: “I’ve been looking out the window for days / in my pajamas I don’t leave my home / That anguish that has me imprisoned / And my friends haven’t called me for days.” However, the electropop rhythm invites you to jump onto the dance floor. The electric guitar is the instrument that finishes trying to open, first starring in a raging bridge and then through a deranged solo. “Someone tell me it’s not raining anymore” is the refrain that only admits good news in response.
Dani Dicostas performs on February 21 in Madrid and on March 28 in Vigo.
