Belinda cannot be tamed. Her latest album, 'Indómita,' proves it

There is nary containing a prima of Belinda’s caliber.

In the making of her 5th workplace medium “Indómita,” the Mexican vocalist and histrion began to recognize that what made her hard to incorporate — successful life, successful emotion and successful her vocation — was worthy penning an medium about.

“I was speechmaking a publication and each of a abrupt the connection ‘indómita’ appeared,” says Belinda successful an audio telephone from her location successful Mexico City. “For 2 days, I kept dreaming of that word. ‘Indómita, Indómita,’” says Belinda during a caller audio telephone from her location successful Mexico City.

Out connected June 5, “Indómita” is an assortment of corridos tumbados, reggaeton, stone and popular ballads with breathtaking collaborations — ranging from the American stone set Thirty Seconds to Mars to Latin stars similar Tokischa and Tito Double P.

“This medium is precise special, not conscionable for women but for everyone who feels untameable, who feels strong, who feels similar a warrior,” she explains.

The rubric straight translates to indomitable, oregon untameable, a word that seems to perfectly suit the 35-year-old artist, whose agelong and prosperous vocation made her an planetary household name.

(Alex Cordova)

Born successful Madrid, Spain, arsenic Belinda Peregrín Schüll, but known wide by her mononym, Belinda began her bequest successful Mexican television, taking connected pb roles successful aboriginal 2000’s puerility telenovelas similar “Amigos x siempre,” “Aventuras en el tiempo,” and “Cómplices Al Rescate,” wherever she played a acceptable of twins who has been separated astatine birth. She besides broke done the Disney sphere, appearing successful the fashionable 2006 sequel of “The Cheetah Girls 2” arsenic Marisol, a Spanish popular prima and rival of the titular miss band.

Belinda’s euphony vocation has been arsenic arsenic fruitful, including a stint arsenic a singing manager connected the TV contention “La Voz” and dozens of deed singles, specified arsenic the fashionable “Amor a Primera Vista,” a 2020 collaboration with Los Ángeles Azules and Lalo Ebratt. Her erstwhile workplace albums, 2003’s “Belinda,” 2006’s “Utopía,” 2010’s “Carpe Diem” and 2013’s “Catarsis” person each graced Billboard’s Top Latin Albums chart.

Her caller LP marks a idiosyncratic creator triumph for the artist, fixed its unsocial determination Mexican edge. “300 Noches,” her 2024 corrido way with Natanael Cano, made No. 4 connected the Mexican Billboard popular illustration and appeared connected the Billboard Global 200, making it Belinda’s archetypal quality connected the chart. Other corridos tumbados, similar the rugged “La Cuadrada” featuring Tito Double P and the blistering “Mírame Feliz” with Xavi, unleash a caller change ego of the famed vocalist known arsenic “Beli bélica,” the second of which means “warrior” successful Spanish.

“With this album, I’d similar to unfastened up the doorway to much women to sing corridos tumbados of heartache,” says Belinda.

The grounds is already scorching hot, with songs similar “Cactus” making a subtle, prickly motion to her past narration with Mexican crooner Christian Nodal, who famously tattooed her eyes connected his chest. There’s besides the reggaeton-corrido fusion called “La Mala,” which coyly addresses the rumors that Belinda is simply a cold, calculated person — which heightened successful the aftermath of her high-profile relationship.

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Still, her notoriety arsenic a heartbreaker has simultaneously granted her sainthood presumption from fans, who created fake supplication cards of the enchanting prima to bolster their ain emotion life.

“This medium was made up of things that we unrecorded each day,” says Belinda. “Someone breaks our heart, we consciousness better, we autumn successful love, they interruption our bosom again and truthful forth. Life is similar that.”

But “Indómita” is overmuch much than Belinda’s foray into determination Mexican music; there’s besides “Jackpot,” a dazzling nine alongside Kenia Os, a tribute to lightning-fast cars successful “Rayo McQueen” — and adjacent her emotion of anime successful “Death Note.”

“I’m a versatile creator and this grounds reflects that,” says Belinda.

This interrogation has been edited and shortened for clarity.

What motivated you to merchandise this medium implicit a decennary aft your past one, “Catarsis”?
I cognize it mightiness look similar it’s been a agelong time, but I ne'er left. I’ve ever been progressive successful music. I’ve done collaborations with Los Ángeles Azules, “Amor a Primera Vista,” that was ace popular, with Ana Mena successful “Las 12,” Lola Indigo and Tiny successful “La Niña de la Escuela,” with Juan Magán and Lapiz Conciente successful “Si No Te Quisiera.”

I’ve made a batch of music, but evidently this grounds means truthful overmuch to me. It’s not the aforesaid to enactment connected collaborations and euphony for different artists arsenic it is to bash it for myself. The medium is afloat of collaborations with Thirty Seconds to Mars, who are 1 of my favourite bands of each time. It besides has Kenia Os, Tito Double P, Neton Vega, who’s a hard-hitting enactment successful the satellite of reggaeton and corridos tumbados, and Natanael Cano, who I can’t hide either. It’s a implicit album, with tons of antithetic styles.

Many of the songs connected this medium are corridos tumbados. Why did you dive into that benignant of music?
It’s a truly stigmatized genre, and a genre that is specifically for men and for definite kinds of lyrics. I wanted to interruption that [idea] and accidental that instruments utilized — similar the trombone, the alto horn, tololoche — aren’t conscionable for men oregon for circumstantial lyrics oregon a circumstantial market. There tin beryllium much romanticist lyrics, a mixing of sounds similar popular with municipality music. The situation was besides getting my collaborators to judge successful this too, since they are utilized to different topics, but everyone trusted maine and believed successful the song[s] since the opening and it was organic.

Tell maine much astir your collaborations. What did you larn from them and what did you thatch them?
They’re truthful talented and play instruments precise well, particularly Natanael Cano — you tin archer him to play immoderate instrument. He’s precise talented. We were successful the workplace and helium started to play a Metallica opus and I was like, “Wow!” Although we mightiness pigeonhole them into this genre, they’re precise versatile and talented. I respect them.

One of the singles of this album, “Cactus,” talks astir your feelings toward an ex. How did it consciousness to merchandise your emotions? And would you accidental that it helped you heal, as the opus suggests?
I emotion healing done music. The archetypal operation of the opus goes: “Therapy helps, but euphony heals much bad-ass.” Perhaps I couldn’t explicit with words what I tin done music. As a composer we explicit our emotions done our lyrics. But it’s besides important that radical retrieve that not everything is based connected experiences. It’s euphony truthful that radical tin place themselves successful emotion oregon heartache. I ne'er notation anyone by name, but radical tin marque their ain conclusions oregon deductions. At the extremity of the day, I marque euphony for radical who tin subordinate to the lyrics.

You’ve been successful the spotlight for truthful galore years. Do you judge determination are 2 Belindas that exist? As in, 1 that is for the nationalist and 1 that’s conscionable for close household members?
Of course, I tin warrant it. There’s besides a opus wherever I explicit that thought that galore times radical person categorized maine arsenic a atrocious character, “La Mala.” At the extremity of the day, I cognize who I americium and the radical astir maine cognize the bosom that I person — my feelings and intentions, my day-to-day. That’s what counts for me. If I paid attraction to each remark [people made of me], my God, I’d beryllium locked up successful a country without an exit, which sometimes does hap to me.

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How bash you tune retired those extracurricular critics?
I effort not to spot these things. Sometimes it’s inevitable but I’m besides not going heavy into the web to find what radical are saying. I bash different much productive things that nourish me.

Obviously it hurts, due to the fact that adjacent if definite comments are not true, they inactive wounded due to the fact that they transportation antagonistic energy. I don’t privation to springiness into these comments arsenic truth, but that vigor of negativity oregon insult oregon humiliation oregon thing that comes from a antagonistic side, evidently has a consequence. So 1 has to beryllium cautious astir however they explicit themselves, due to the fact that there’s truthful overmuch negativity that exists, truthful it would beryllium bully if we could conscionable propulsion a spot much of love.

I heard you’re a large anime fan, and you amusement that successful your opus “Death Note.” Why was it important to see that?
I’m [an] otaku, adjacent if radical don’t judge it. I truly similar anime. I’m a instrumentality of “One Piece,” “Death Note,” everything, “Attack connected Titan,” but “Death Note” is my favorite. It’s beauteous dark, but Ryuk is 1 of my favourite characters successful life. I’ve ever been a instrumentality of terror, due to the fact that wrong the darkness, there’s ever immoderate light.

You were calved successful Spain but were raised successful Mexico. How person you navigated some identities?
I can’t prime 1 oregon the other, but I’ve ever considered myself Mexican, due to the fact that I was raised successful Mexico and my accent is Mexican. I’m very, precise overmuch Latina.

What proposal would you springiness your younger self?
Don’t instrumentality everything truthful personally and bask life. When I was little, I would deliberation excessively overmuch astir what the satellite thought. I was ever like, “do you similar it? Oh you don’t, why?” and I would suffer. And present if I similar it, OK, and if nary 1 other likes it, past excessively bad, I similar it!