Before Morat’s debut at Viña del Mar, the beloved latin pop rock band shares how their dreams have evolved over time with their growth, what they love about being in a band together, how they get inspiration for their music, their personal style and more!
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00:00When we started, each one came to the concert as they wanted.
00:03Each one was uglier than the previous one.
00:06There are so many people who want to do what we are doing,
00:08that the same thing we can do for our lives,
00:10out of respect for who we are, we enjoy it too.
00:12And for them.
00:19Well, friends of Billboard,
00:21and today from Chile, from Viña del Mar, Morat.
00:24How are you?
00:25That's it, happy to be here.
00:28Well, it's a pleasure to see you,
00:30and obviously, your debut in Viña del Mar.
00:33How do you feel?
00:34I feel a deep emotion.
00:36I think we've been preparing for this moment for many years.
00:40I think it's been seven years, six,
00:41that we've been coming to Chile.
00:44And Chile has fulfilled many of our dreams.
00:47In fact, we found out that our fans here
00:49made a campaign for us to be at the Viña festival.
00:52So, well, we feel a huge responsibility,
00:54but an even bigger emotion.
00:57Yes, a few minutes ago, in the conference,
00:59you were also talking about dreams,
01:01about how they are changing.
01:03But how do you live all this?
01:05I mean, how far had you dreamed
01:07from the beginning, when you started the band?
01:10Look, there's one thing,
01:11we've talked about it lately,
01:12because I think we came from the stadium tour,
01:14which is like,
01:16what we didn't only explicitly say
01:18that it was a great dream that we were able to fulfill,
01:20but it also kind of
01:22automatically opens the door,
01:24like, well, what comes next?
01:25What are you still dreaming about?
01:26We've been asked this several times,
01:27and I think that
01:28part of what Isa mentioned a while ago,
01:30which I liked the way he said it,
01:31is that dreams are disassembled
01:33and reconfigured into different things.
01:36One of the things that, for us,
01:38has started to appear lately
01:42is a slightly more diffuse dream, right?
01:44And it's like the dream of longevity,
01:45like the dream of doing everything
01:47so that our project and our band
01:49is something that is viable in the long term.
01:51So that we can enjoy it,
01:53that we have the right equipment,
01:54that we're making music that we like,
01:57that we're in good health,
01:59everything that that implies, right?
02:00It's like a slightly bigger dream,
02:02a little more diffuse,
02:03and that's been really nice,
02:05but at the same time,
02:07dreams suddenly appear,
02:09for example, the ones that you didn't know you had,
02:11and suddenly they appear,
02:13playing in places you didn't think you'd get to, for example,
02:15and others that you've had for a long time
02:18that suddenly come true,
02:19like playing in Viña del Mar, for example,
02:21which I think is one of the iconic places
02:23that the four of us have had very present,
02:26even before starting to tour and being a band.
02:29So it's nice to see that the theme of dreams
02:32is packed and colorful in many ways,
02:36and that, for our good fortune,
02:38we've been able to try several of their versions,
02:42and without a doubt, because of our audience.
02:46At the moment, they're the strongest Latin pop band in the world.
02:51Strongest.
02:52Very strong.
02:53Above all, they're strong.
02:55I got muscle, Pedro.
02:57How...
02:59How do you maintain and, obviously, how do you enjoy
03:02all that part, because...
03:04A lot of gym.
03:05It's very fast.
03:06A lot of...
03:06Only gym, bro.
03:07Only gym, bro.
03:08But what do you mean exactly?
03:10Like, it gives them time to enjoy
03:11everything they're experiencing.
03:14That becomes a bit of a challenge.
03:15It's the maximum challenge.
03:16And the biggest regrets also come from not being able to do it.
03:18Yes.
03:19I think that...
03:20And I think that happens not only in this,
03:21I think that in any job,
03:23I think that one suffers constantly
03:25with the idea of not being able to enjoy
03:27what you're not doing 100%.
03:29And I think that, in part, that's why
03:31what Simon says is so true.
03:32Tell me, Marto.
03:33Thank you, bro.
03:34I can't bear to say what I want to say.
03:38I also think that
03:40there's a huge advantage in being four,
03:42in being a band, and that is that
03:44one, as a person,
03:46there are simply things in life
03:47that go a little more automatically,
03:49and there are other things in which,
03:50suddenly, I don't know,
03:52because you like them more,
03:53or because you enjoy them more,
03:54suddenly you pay a little more attention to them.
03:57I think that the fact of being four
03:58and that it's an effort,
04:01as conscious of the four,
04:03to make the rest fall,
04:05as in account,
04:06when one is living one of those moments
04:08in which, suddenly, one is enjoying it,
04:10and maybe the other three are,
04:11suddenly, going a little automatically,
04:13I don't know.
04:13Really, that's why we take Marto on tour.
04:16That's why Marto is so important.
04:17I'm like the pet.
04:19Marto is the ambassador of good energy.
04:21He doesn't recognize anyone.
04:25But, for example, let's say
04:27we're recording a video,
04:28and I'm like, I don't want to record the video anymore,
04:30and Villaville comes out and says,
04:31look how great this video is,
04:33look at everything we put in it,
04:34and it's like, ok,
04:36if one has a little perspective,
04:38things also look different.
04:40No, yes, I mean, it's very entertaining,
04:43and in truth, many times it also happens to us that,
04:45well, yes, it's a day of filming,
04:47suddenly, a little heavy,
04:49recording a video, whatever, but,
04:51damn, this is a Tuesday in the office,
04:53and we're recording a video,
04:54and we're having a good time at the end of the day.
04:56So, in reality, we can't keep anything,
04:59and we're the most grateful,
05:00because our work is very exciting and incredible.
05:03I agree, and I think that,
05:04in addition, two things happen
05:06that I would add to that.
05:07One, we are lucky to have a wonderful team
05:09with which we get along incredibly,
05:11and it feels, many times,
05:12like traveling among friends and family.
05:15And the other is that, I think,
05:17there's a degree of contagion
05:20when you see people enjoying what you do, you know?
05:23And I think that's also something
05:25from which I feel horribly fortunate.
05:29It's cool that the measure of the success
05:33of the concert, for example,
05:35that it's going well,
05:36has to do with people having a good time.
05:38That's what I said at the end.
05:39And also, the other day,
05:40this question is for Mau, for a lot of people.
05:44I heard something that someone said.
05:46If you don't enjoy it,
05:47you're living someone else's dream, too.
05:49I totally agree.
05:50There are so many people who want to do
05:52what we're doing,
05:53that the least we can do for our lives,
05:55out of respect for who we are,
05:56is to enjoy it.
05:57And for them.
05:58Literally.
05:59The least, right?
06:00Imagine, you made me realize.
06:01Hey, it's Monday.
06:02We're here, Niña del Mar.
06:03It's Monday.
06:04You're going to play at night.
06:05That's crazy.
06:06That's crazy.
06:07That's crazy.
06:08Yes, that's crazy.
06:10You obviously write to love and to heartbreak,
06:13but I was watching some videos
06:15and you were also talking about
06:17how important it is to be empathetic
06:19and that songs don't necessarily
06:21have to be for someone specific.
06:23If it's not time to compose,
06:25you can also create,
06:27but out of your head.
06:29How do you live love?
06:33Well, it depends on the vital moment
06:35in which each one is,
06:36but we keep 100% of what you say.
06:38We believe that one of the most important skills
06:41that one has to have,
06:43not only to make music,
06:45but to live,
06:46is to be able to put yourself
06:48in the shoes of another person,
06:50to try to think how that person thinks,
06:52to feel how that person feels.
06:54And I think that one does that exercise,
06:56one tries to do it,
06:57sometimes well,
06:58sometimes bad,
06:59in the day to day,
07:00relating,
07:01but when one does it well,
07:02when it comes to writing,
07:03when it comes to thinking about a song,
07:05I think that's where the best ideas come from.
07:07I would also like to add something to the question,
07:12we have made a very conscious effort
07:14not only to write about love,
07:16because it's also a personal challenge
07:18that we put ourselves as a band,
07:20I would say three albums,
07:22and we have made an effort
07:24for at least all the albums we have
07:26to have one or two songs
07:27that have nothing to do with love,
07:29because in favor of what you ask,
07:33there are also many types of empathy
07:35that have nothing to do with love.
07:36In fact, we have a song, for example,
07:38that talks about the history of our country,
07:40I think that's also a type of empathy that represents us,
07:42and that's very important for us to explore.
07:44We have another song that talks about
07:46the things that are worth more in life for us,
07:49that maybe are not so banal,
07:50and that type of empathy, I think,
07:52is also very important to rescue,
07:53and it's something that I think
07:55that comes into our heads constantly.
07:57Well, and talking a little bit about fashion,
08:00we want to know
08:03We want to know
08:05who generally chooses their outfits,
08:08or if there is anyone who is more...
08:11Actually, in this band,
08:12Marto is our fashion pastor.
08:14Oh, wow!
08:15I'm going to tell you the story,
08:17how it was, more or less.
08:19It's more or less...
08:21I mean, Mora, it's incredible,
08:23because really, when we started,
08:25each one came to the concert as he wanted.
08:28Each one was uglier than the previous one.
08:30No, nothing, there was nothing.
08:34It was incredible, it was the best.
08:36The four of us in the summer,
08:38playing like this with short shorts,
08:40long boots, it was incredible.
08:42It was incredible, it was a moment of freedom.
08:44The thing is that about four years ago,
08:46already like four, yes, three, four years,
08:48we started to get much more involved
08:50in the subject of, well, what are we going to do?
08:52How do we look decent?
08:54And we entered a stage
08:56in which we decided to dress the four of us in black,
08:58which was much easier and much more comfortable,
09:00because regardless of what each one put on,
09:02if we were in black,
09:04we already looked like a unit.
09:06Coordinated.
09:08But I think that's where my work comes a little bit,
09:10at the moment when I tell you...
09:12Encourage it, encourage it.
09:14Let's dress in some way,
09:16let's do this thing that is cool and conscious,
09:18and each one begins to explore a little what they like.
09:20And I think it has also been
09:22like the work of each one,
09:24how to find what kind of clothes they like,
09:26how to realize that this looks good on us,
09:28that this does not look good on us.
09:30And more or less a year ago
09:32we are working with a person
09:34who is Lu, Lu Milatrocoli,
09:36who is from Uruguay, in fact,
09:38and is a stylist with whom we have been working
09:40for more or less a year.
09:42And it has been a very collaborative work,
09:44also with each one of the four.
09:46And I feel that it is something that we like more and more.
09:48We love fashion, we love clothes.
09:50Lately we are very involved,
09:52obviously, with the subject of vintage clothes,
09:54like going back a little to the 90s,
09:56the 80s, and the same,
09:58fashion is also very cyclical,
10:00so in the end everything comes back.
10:02I was going to say something.
10:04I think we have had
10:06like two milestones
10:08in our aesthetic discovery
10:10as a band.
10:12The first was when we dressed in black
10:14and I remember that we were
10:16in a photo shoot, we had finished
10:18and coincidentally we were in the subway.
10:20And a person told us,
10:22you are a band?
10:24And we said, yes.
10:26You look like a band.
10:28And we were like, wow!
10:30But we were dressed in black.
10:32So that was like half the trick.
10:34The challenge that then happened
10:36was to generate that same thing,
10:38but different clothes.
10:40And we did it a little while ago.
10:42So I think that has been a very important thing
10:44for us, how to generate that unity
10:46through the differences between us,
10:48which is a very important challenge.
10:50I think that this is the path
10:52that we have traveled with the issue of...
10:54Yes, the clothes, but I would say more
10:56how to put yourself in a place,
10:58an aesthetic as conscious,
11:00as a decision,
11:02not so much an accident.
11:04And it is that as we have been advancing,
11:06it has also become evident
11:08how music is complemented
11:10in a very direct way
11:12also with these aesthetics.
11:14There are things that you see
11:16and suddenly if you hear someone playing metal
11:18it feels different.
11:20It is different.
11:22It has something that plays
11:24a lot with that.
11:26And it is beautiful because I feel
11:28that the exploration of music
11:30has also begun to take a lot
11:32of the hand of the exploration
11:34in fashion.
11:36How do we achieve that what we are doing
11:38has clear references,
11:40plays with references of this time
11:42and this movement in terms of fashion
11:44and how we make it make sense today
11:46and it has been very cool.
11:48There are historical connections
11:50between genre and clothes.
11:52Obviously one can play,
11:54but I feel that right now
11:56we are in the movie to see
11:58how we take advantage of those things
12:00that already exist.
12:02To close it a bit,
12:04we already released three singles
12:06of our fifth album
12:08and from the moment we released
12:10the first single of that album
12:12people began to see this type
12:14of music in the band.
12:16It is also a way to tell people
12:18where everything is going.
12:20I think people have been realizing
12:22and we are very comfortable
12:24with where we are going.
12:26And speaking of that,
12:28where is your music going this year?
12:30Well, it continues a bit
12:32on the same side.
12:34The first songs we released
12:36are like an opening
12:38of the sound,
12:40of what we are doing.
12:42It is more of a present drum
12:44which is something that we needed
12:46because in the last album
12:48it was not so much.
12:50And we are trying to see
12:52how to make Spanish rock
12:54like the one we liked
12:56when we were little.
12:58How that would sound today
13:00in our heads and in our hands.
13:02And what was the Spanish rock
13:04that you liked when you were little?
13:06Well, let's see.
13:08Calamaro, Fito Páez,
13:10we grew up with a lot of Spanish rock
13:12and we grew up with a lot of
13:14Juánez as well.
13:16Imaná.
13:18Well, now
13:20we are going to do a quick game.
13:22I am going to ask you
13:24a question.
13:26You are going to close your eyes
13:28and the one who is the most
13:30who is the most
13:32you point at.
13:34Everyone with their eyes closed?
13:36Yes, everyone with their eyes closed.
13:38This game is easy.
13:40It is very easy.
13:46Well, everyone with their eyes closed.
13:48Ready.
13:50Who is it easier to forget the lyrics
13:52of a song?
13:56Can we open our eyes?
13:58Everyone with their eyes closed.
14:02Who makes the most jokes?
14:04Define a joke.
14:10Who would be the least punctual?
14:12Where is Simon?
14:16Who takes the most selfies?
14:26Who spends the most money?
14:28It depends.
14:30Do instruments count?
14:32No, because that is part of the job.
14:34No, but if you don't count that
14:36I feel like that is where it goes.
14:40Who would probably cry
14:42watching a movie?
14:48Who gets the most random things?
14:54Who falls asleep the fastest?
14:58The marmota.
15:00Who would probably
15:02go faster on a party night?
15:08Who is the most antisocial?
15:12It is ugly to say that to your friends.
15:16The most antisocial?
15:18God.
15:20Who would get into trouble the most?
15:22The kid.