2023-09-28 17:49:40
«I have no idea what film director I want to be, honestly. But I feel comfortable there because I didn’t know what kind of album it was going to be either. ‘The Madrilenian’. In doubt I’m fine. I have ambitions to make films, I am surrounded by an ecosystem that is already working. It’s happening, and I’m going to try to make a film,” said C. Tangana at the press conference for his documentary ‘This excessive ambition’, premiered at the San Sebastián Film Festival. Accompanied by Santos Bacana (director and screenwriter), Rogelio González (director and screenwriter), Cris Trenas (director, screenwriter and producer) and Jorge Ortiz (executive producer of Movistar+), the rapper answered questions from the press about the film lasting more than two hours, which documents the creation of the album ‘El Madrileño’ and its presentation tour, the ‘Sin canto ni afinar Tour’ that has aroused so much applause in Spain and Latin America.
«The main argument is that my vocal performance is not what is important. People don’t go for that,” Pucho responded to a question about the live phobia that he confesses to having in a scene in the documentary. «If a virtuoso comes to see me who is not interested in what I do, who does not understand my language, and is not interested in performance and only listens to classical musicians, if he sees what I do, he will not care. But if there is someone who is interested in the idea, the artistic concept, they can get excited about the show. But of course I have to go through the ridicule of doing something that I know is not what I am best at. I believe this happens to everyone in his profession. You may be very good at the office part, but when you then have to sell something to your clients, you are bad at it or it is not what you like the most. The same thing happens to me. In the studio I have normal insecurities, but I feel like I have control. Not on stage, and in fact I didn’t believe that I was an artist until I did this show. I thought I was a rapper, that we came from the parties, and they’re not bad, but my artistic ambition made me feel less of an artist because of the shows I did. And now, I feel like more of an artist thanks to this latest show.”
One of the journalists at the press conference asked how much money they had lost with the tour, which shows that the documentary seeks too much drama and leaves without explaining that in reality, nothing is ruined. «It is true that the documentary focuses a lot on that most problematic, most difficult part, on the clash between creative ambition and the impossibility, or the difficulty of making that possible and financially viable. But the result in the end was positive. What happens is that that part doesn’t come out as much because the drama is always more cinematic,” Cristina Trenas admitted.
Regarding his reflections in the film about “marketinian C. Tangana,” as he himself says, the artist said: “I have experienced that superfluous comment, that headline. I would have liked another documentary, because I have had to face it by leaving my life in the hands of these three people, and they have decided what worked and what didn’t. And it has been hard for me to see myself like this, to show myself like this. But with this documentary I don’t want anyone to think anything new about me. If I stay the same, I am delighted with life. If what you thought about me before watching the documentary is the same as what you think after, we are perfect.
In this sense, for Pucho this documentary “has been a way” to see himself “from the outside”, and he assures that what is seen is his day-to-day reality. «I am a control freak, and having given up so much ground has allowed me to see myself from the outside and see the process, and things that I want to improve about myself. There is a certain point that I like, when I see Lele involved, when I see Pep’s hug with Johnny. There has been a lot of tension. There have been parts of the docu that I have seen from the outside that make me feel good. And you think you’re taking care of everyone, but you never know for sure having such a large team. Then, when I go out, I want to bury my head in the sand.
Regarding the insinuations of leaving the music that he drops in the film, he says he has no idea what he is going to do, and that he likes not having it. «I will release records all my life because it is a drive that I have. I don’t need to be releasing songs all the time. As for cinema, I am filming a documentary that is about my favorite artist today, who is Yerai Cortesa flamenco guitarist who has accompanied me on tour.
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