Natalia Lafourcade's single 'La Cometierra' reveals 'hard truths' about Mexico

Eating ungraded is usually not a bully thing, but successful the caller Amazon Prime bid “Cometierra,” it’s a superpower.

The supernatural transgression thriller, which premieres connected Halloween, is based connected the 2019 Dolores Reyes caller of the aforesaid name. The publication follows the communicative of a young pistillate who has the quality to pass done visions with the dormant and missing radical of Argentina by eating the carnal onshore they trod.

“Cometierra” stars Lilith Curiel with supporting roles from Oscar nominee Yalitza Aparicio and Gerardo Taracena. It follows the aforesaid outline of the publication but is acceptable successful modern Mexico to code the themes of authorities violence, femicide and the missing persons epidemic.

The root worldly and its caller twist were what drew Mexican singer-songwriter Natalia Lafourcade to execute the series’s rubric song, “La Cometierra.”

“We person this world successful Mexico, there’s unit against galore women and there’s the disappeared. It’s a precise bittersweet concern that we have, but it’s a fact,” the vocalist said. “It’s inspiring the mode the bid develops and however this girl, alongside her neighbors, creates a [positive] tribal spot retired of her situation.”

Lafourcade particularly liked that the bid provides an integrated avenue for statement and serves arsenic a telephone to enactment to admit that these are each problems successful Mexico, portion besides showing that determination is simply a heavy good of quality wrong the country.

“We each person a endowment that we tin ever enactment guardant arsenic a work for our family, our country, conscionable for different people,” she said.

The 41-year-old artist’s precocious released azygous channels the vigor of the bid and its themes by conjuring a spoken connection cadence that culminates successful a nursery rhyme chant astir the powers of the Cometierra.

“I wanted to marque a dependable that would beryllium precise beardown and that would contiguous a world and that the lyrics wouldn’t beryllium smooth,” Lafourcade said. “But astatine the aforesaid time, it would person anticipation and airy and this feeling of joyousness for the adjacent generations. So I wanted to person this premix of girls singing successful a precise naive tone, but besides premix successful a consecutive dependable telling hard truths.”

The song, portion geared toward a Mexican experience, present has a striking relevance successful the United States arsenic Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids — mostly targeting Latinos — proceed to instrumentality spot crossed the state and arsenic hundreds of detained radical person been unaccounted for.

“I anticipation that euphony has this capableness to marque america aftermath up and beryllium conscious of situations,” Lafourcade said. “I person realized determination are galore themes that you tin instrumentality done music, but sometimes euphony tin go thing that you perceive truths that astir apt are not truthful pretty.”

Regarding immoderate of the disfigured truths of the U.S. astatine the moment, the “Nunca Es Suficiente” creator said that it’s not close that radical should consciousness shame of wherever they travel from and that communities request to amusement up for themselves astatine this constituent successful time.

“Nobody should instrumentality our pridefulness for our roots, our culture, our people,” she said. “The young woman [in the show] reaches a constituent wherever she’s confused astir if she should usage her powerfulness and springiness it to her radical oregon not. She feels precise acrophobic and insecure and she’s going done each that. But I emotion however she becomes a leader of her ain powerfulness and I deliberation that’s the destiny of galore of us, the mode we tin marque a twist successful the communicative we’re surviving each day.”