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MDA is Marcos de Arriba (1998). He takes the stage name from his initials but also seeks double entendres with MDMA, a synthetic drug that acts as a stimulant and hallucinogen. "I play with that feeling in my music. It's something you can get affectionate with but it can also make you violent. They are vibes, a feeling," he says.

Born in Zaragoza and raised in Ponferrada, he has become one of the Spanish references of hyperpop, a musical subgenre that fascinates generation Z and exaggerates pop with frenetic rhythms, high-pitched voices and electronic elements. Although he denies that label.

"It's terrible. I consider that I make music and that's it. Many people take a genre and exploit it because it is what works for them or it is simply the capacity they have. But I think his mind is closed. In 2023 locking yourself in one thing seems a bit like a bit to me...", he points out without finishing the sentence. An action that he will repeat several times during the interview hour while he does not stop moving in the white armchair in which he remains sitting.

QUESTION - So how would you define what you do?

ANSWER- I have been writing since the second year of Primary. I've been through a lot, I've listened to a lot of music, and everything gets mixed up. For example, there was a time when I did a lot of "chumba chumba" because for me that music was a refuge. That 'pum pum pum' made me feel better in my day-to-day life." Now I think one of the problems is that a lot of people are making music without feeling a shit and it shows. They are there to take their picture and tell their friends. I think that's what differentiates me from hyperpop, that I see it as very empty.

Q.- Maybe now there is less feeling because it is easier to live from it.

A.- Let's see, if your plan is to go to four parties because it is fucking mother and everyone who does what he wants with his life. It's like those who take advantage of the fact that they are youtubers to make music. Well, you're going to do well, you're going to be fucking with your friends, but you're really fucking up the music because you're causing a setback in its evolution. You don't know how to make music and you have a million people listening to you just because you're you, but you're not a musician.

Q.- Where does that passion for making music come from for you?

A.- From my father. We listened to a lot of music and all styles. Very different things. Although my mother sang in orchestras at village festivals.

Q.- So it's a familiar thing...

A.- Yes, there is something. Especially the feeling because I don't think I have a voice... Now I'm trying to sing more because if you want to learn to sing, you learn. It's putting on.

Q.- It is true that in your songs the voice is not heard clearly and sometimes it is almost impossible to understand what you say without having the lyrics in front of you. I don't know how premeditated this is.

A.- It comes from a dynamic of doing things very trash, of recording myself at home and sending it to a colleague. In the end it's a pretty rotten process. But hey, now I'm going to the studio. I would really like to start taking care of the lyrics a little more because I think it is one of my strengths and it is necessary that I be understood. I don't want to be trash all my life. I already have a lot of music like that.

Q.- You have a huge music catalog for your age. Do you produce so much?

A.- I take everything out. I do almost no discards. There's always something about the song that I like or make me feel good. Also, why discard a topic that will like equis people. It is absurd. And the other good part about having a piece of catalog is that every song adds up.

Q.- The lyrics of hyperpop talk about anxiety, depression, darkness. Feelings that are also related to your generation. How much do you think there is cliché and how much reality?

A: Sadhguru already talks about this. He says that it is not that it is a generation issue, that we see it in our generation because there are more and more things and the younger ones are more the most intoxicated with that. But that the problem is that we humans have, that we have so many things to choose from that we get complicated by that. We have so much, so much, so much encouragement that in the end you're never happy, you're never done with yourself because you're always going to need something.

Q.- Sometimes you talk about your "dark times". Have you had a really bad time?

A.- Let's see, I have always known that I was going to live from music and when everything was very dark that was the light I saw and that is what has made me pull forward in many aspects of my life. I haven't had the best life or the worst... I'm a person who the first time I filled a concert I cried like a fucking child. For me this is very important. I am very happy and many times you forget because you want more and you think that this is not enough. But others think about it cold and say: "fuck, she's a fucking mother".

Q.- Would you like your music to reach more people or do you prefer to keep it "for a few"?

A.- I, honestly, now I'm a fucking mother and I've achieved everything organically without having to make music to like this or the other or without having to get close to that or the other. With that I am very proud and I could live like that quietly. The move is that I'm very demanding too. So obviously I would like this to expand little by little.

Q.- Why put such complicated titles? Your latest album is called '^^7^¡¡' and the songs have names in the same line.

A.- I think it's cool. In the end it's art, isn't it? It is that I am the opposite of schemes. The squared to me...

Q.- Do you respect a mainstream artist who does everything in a planned way?

A.- Man, any artist deserves my respect. I may like more or less what you do or how you got it, but if you're working on the same thing as me, why shouldn't I respect you? Respect you have to have for everyone until you lack it, obviously. I respect all artists whatever they do or have earned it as they have earned it. Everyone has to be calm with themselves and that's it.

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