Vesta Lugg: “I wanted to go back to that Vesta of before, who was not afraid of anything”

At the beginning of her year, Vesta Lugg traveled to Buenos Aires to work on her new album with producer and seven Grammy winner Juan Blas. There, and in this path of dedicating herself fully to music, the artist says that she ended up creating a song almost by accident.” I think we had been in the studio for about ten hours, it was like eleven or twelve o’clock at night, we were already finishing and he showed me a base that he had,” Lugg recalls. We started talking about life and enjoying the moment, he was playing guitar and suddenly there appeared for a moment at the base and I said: ‘You know what, Juan, I have an idea’. And he told me to record it,” she says. That was how through Whatsapp audios that she sent to herself, she began to put together “Alas Desatadas”, her new song. Little by little both were playing with the audios, adding more sounds. “There we looked at each other and said ‘this is bacan’,” says the artist. “But then we left it paused, we finished with the songs we were working on and we could barely start to delve into the song,” he says. The truth is that I have allowed myself to be wrong. I don’t know if I explain myself. I think that many times when we are girls, children, boys, they challenge us when we make mistakes or try something different. And I think I’ve managed to do things that I didn’t do before for fear of this “don’t do it,” or “it doesn’t belong to you.” I’ve allowed myself not to know all the answers and feel comfortable with other people knowing that I don’t know everything, obviously. I wanted to try everything on this album, so there are very different tracks among all. You were a long way from social media and TV. Was it difficult? Did you want to disconnect? It was a challenge, because naturally a lot of what I do in my work is with social media and I started to realize that I was validating myself through the opinion of the networks and I was doing myself wrong. That validation of others began to intoxicate me a little and I wanted to dedicate time to my work with myself, time to my zmúsica, understand what I wanted to say and how I wanted to say it, and I did not want to contaminate it. You didn’t want to get intoxicated… Yes, I feel that sometimes people associate my way of being with the way I am someone with pig leather. I like to think that I’m super honest and that I do things despite what people think, but still and naturally I’m sensitive, I’m human and I look for ways to let go of other people’s opinion in the decision-making process, but it naturally affects me. It’s an energetic burden like when people throw away their trash and expect you to clean it up when it’s not your responsibility. Disconnection helped you create, then. Exact, exact. When I left “BKN” and launched the EP “Estrellas” I did everything from the place of so much detachment from fear, that I wanted to return to that Vesta of before that I was not afraid of anything, to try new things and propose something different from what should be done. I would like to think that with this project and with the album that is coming we are managing to go on that path.

Original source in Spanish