2023 will forever be remembered as the year of heartbreak songs. The artists seem to be starting from scratch in their sentimental lives, and that is how they are transmitting it in their songs. Strength, messages of optimism and self-love that promise to leave the past behind.
Shakira, Karol G, Miley Cyrus, Rauw Alejandro and now Malú, who joins all of them and opens up like never before about the end of relationships. The composer has presented her new work Absent by surprise, in which it seems that there could be more than one reference to the end of her relationship with the father of her daughter Lucía, Albert Rivera, from whom she separated at the end of last spring after five years of relationship
A new single that the artist presented on the night of August 31 and in which she sings of heartbreak with a melody and lyrics loaded with meaning capable of moving the hardest hearts.
Three and a half minutes in which he talks about a broken sentimental relationship, marked by everything that was done and could not be done, by the lack of understanding, loving each other in a way that was not due and, as the song titles, by those absences that they end up blowing it all up.
A song that the artist has presented together with a music video in which she can be seen, on the sand of the beach during a sunset, singing torn apart: “I don’t understand why I feel so alone when I’m with you. Explain to me the problem because I can’t get it. Where do I look for you when you escape from my mouth. Whoever understands you now will be because they have also gone crazy”.
Some already point out that this song could refer to the relationship between the composer and Albert Rivera, thus revealing what the last moments of their romance were like and how the breakup would have precipitated, of which neither has publicly mentioned.
There are many phrases that refer to those moments lived together, such as Rivera’s goodbye to politics (“I raised you up and nobody knows that”, Malú sings) or how they faced media pressure (“it was me who endured the echo of my name everywhere”).
Malú sings and cries, with her characteristic voice, to the absences that ended up breaking the relationship; but she also sends a message to the future, dedicated to what they have in common: “Whatever happens, she goes first.”
I don’t understand why I feel so alone
when I’m with you.
explain the problem to me
because I can’t get it.
Where do I look for you?
when you escape from my mouth
who understands you now
It will be because she also went crazy.
You are a stranger who walks through my house
I don’t recognize you, I don’t understand what’s wrong with you.
You say you love me when you see the precipice.
Malquerer has become a vice.
and i lifted you up
and that nobody knows.
it was me who endured
the echo of my name everywhere.
Absent, no matter how hard you try.
I don’t understand why I look in the mirror
and I feel weird.
I can’t stop crying alone
This pain doesn’t stop.
where do i move to
to start again.
Whatever happens… she goes first.
You are a stranger who walks through my house
I don’t recognize you, I don’t understand what’s wrong with you.
You say you love me, but you’ve already lost your mind.
Malquerer has become a vice.
and i lifted you up
and that nobody knows.
it was me who endured
the echo of my name everywhere.
Absent, no matter how much you invent.
I lifted you up and no one knows that.
it was me who endured
the echo of my name everywhere.
Absent, no matter how hard you try.
