The story goes like this: In the northern summer of 2018, the Argentine artist Juana Molina It has been programmed at the prestigious Roskilde festival, one of the most important in Europe. Upon arriving in Denmark, she discovers that the airline that transported her and her band has lost their instruments. The only thing that survived that unfortunate incident was her guitar. She, contrary to what most musicians would have decided in those circumstances, He decides to take the risk of presenting his concert with what's on stage: a keyboard and a drum kit. That gives him the opportunity to recreate his songs live on the same stage., giving them a more rugged, more raw nuance. The audience embraces the experiment and cheers. This allows for an interesting twist that she begins to implement in her subsequent performances. A year or so later, Juana Molina releases her new EP. Forfun, a compilation of four songs from his repertoire, reworked and with a surprising label: They all have the word punk as their last name.
Few artists, especially those of her caliber and popularity, take risks like that, but that's what Juana Molina's career has been all about. From the beginning she fought against the cliché. After a successful stint as a sitcom actress, she decided to break with everything and recorded her album in 1996 Strange, with Gustavo Santaolalla as producer. It withstood criticism from the press (we journalists are geniuses, did you know that?) and, little by little, He became the avant-garde benchmark of Argentine music worldwide. He stepped out of his exquisite comfort zone, where he could have remained, living off a glory that would surely have become boring but secure, and instead played at reinventing himself, chapter after chapter, and he has done so every time he has had the opportunity. On this occasion, listening to his new version of Paraguayan It's about experiencing a very accelerated sensation of the original composition, with a sound reminiscent of the B-52's and other Anglo-Saxon bands of the time, With a cheerful aroma that gets anyone dancing. Here Molina returns to the stage. One day, a track initially conceived as an electro-folk experiment, and transforms it in a furious garage rock experience, full of loud vocal details that constantly keep the viewer on their toes.
In the end, Forfun It's 12 minutes of joyful revelry and delightful bustle worthy of A brilliant woman who isn't afraid to play with everything she's established in her previous steps. And that dares to change its sound and image to break the mold and captivate its audience. That's not just called courage, it's also called fun.
