My second single it’s also special. Well, every song is special because I make them with a lot of love.
But this, in particular, was inspired by my sister. She is magical.
I made the base for this song on the 5th of September 2024, and since the first moment I made this, I knew I wanted it to sound…
✨ m a g i c a l ✨
So I decided to gather all the possible elements that will give it a magical feeling… but I wanted the magical feeling you get when you watch a Disney movie, the one that’s cute and shiny kind of magic because that’s exactly what my sister is like.
She’s like the coolest in the world, she’s the smartest chick I know with the best sense of fashion. She’s a dentist and lives in Barcelona now. I know that the first thing people think about dentists is not that they save lives, but she did save lives. She saved mine. Aside from taking care of me always, she is also responsible for curing my migraines through orthodontics. She also cured and saved so many other people who cried rivers when she closed her praxis in my hometown to move to Barcelona.
She lights up the world around her with her sense of humour and kindness. She was the perfect person to inspire me to create a song like magic… and that’s how I came up with a new composition tool.
Thanks to my sister I realized that I could make songs not only about people I love, but, for people I love. So after making Magic, I decided singles would also be my new way of giving. Now when I come up with a song, I think of who I can make this song for, so I would spill the maximum amount of inspiration and love possible into a song. Making songs this way makes me think in different and new ways, and it’s just like baking a pie or a brownie (my sister’s fav one), the process of a sudden stops being all about finishing the song as fast as I can (kinda guilty of it all), and it becomes exactly like slow baking a cake, looking for the best ingredients, mixing them carefully and cooking it in the right temperature and wait for the delicious smell of a great song coming out of the oven. It’s just perfect.
We’ve both been through a lot of things, together and away from each other, and it’s incredible how much support a sibling can give you when you feel alone in the world. When you’re new in town in another country, they’re always there. And I am lucky to have my sister and my brother to guide me through life, both of them are superheroes and I am beyond lucky to have them both in my life. They say the relationship with your siblings is the most important one because they get to know you in all your versions and will be there even when mom and dad aren’t there anymore.
So yes, this song is more emotional for me than Perfect Crime because it is about someone I love with all my heart. Even though I also thought carefully about every element inside both songs, I felt Magic to be a thematic party, which also made this project a bit different from other songs.
The release date was first planned for the moment my sister was going to visit us here in Argentina, she came over for three weeks last October, but because of all of the roadblocks that happened during those months, it was impossible to release the song earlier. I also wanted this to be a better version of myself than perfect crime. I wanted to have at least a bit of experience mixing and mastering before Magic so could present a better quality. Of course ,I don’t think I got THAT much better from one song to the next, but that was the delusion of someone sleeping on a mattress in her studio with 4 hours of sleep hahahah.
One particular problem I faced with this song, was the vocals. I began going to speech therapy sessions because while doing some routine controls of my vocal cords my doctor thought to have seen a small nodule, but he wasn’t sure, so he advised me to get some sessions. I actually love having vocal training sessions, not singing sessions, but I like speech therapy, because you get to learn the foundation of it and my speech therapist is just the best, she specializes in singers so she really is the GOAT. So, this song really made me realize I needed a bit more training. Even tho I’m not 100% happy with the vocals in Magic, I had to let it go because I wanted to keep my promise and release the song, and that’s what I did. I’ve been going to sessions for at least 2 months now, and it’s amazing how you can discover a new thing to work on in every single session.
For some reason, the whole process of the song was a blur. Maybe because I was going through a lot of stress, like exams, finishing Perfect Crime and also working on an EP and other singles that I want to release this year as well, and I realized, thanks to pushing myself to the limit, that I made it to my self imposed deadlines but, at the same time I was not enjoying the process of my songs so after I finished these years’ lasts exams I decided to calm myself down to enjoy the process a little more. I still want to make it to the deadlines but now I can focus more on my music and the process, because I have no idea why, but every time I have a release, all stupid exams are on the same week. I wanted to bake a release cake for every song and I just couldn’t do it for magic because I was too exhausted for it. And btw, after I was done with the song, one day before the release I think, I realised a mistake in the lyrics… I felt SO stupid haha. But that’s because I am doing everything on my own, and it’s because I’m just starting my career.
Well, one little fun thing is that when I first started making the songs I was like “I’m making new pictures for the covers” aaaaand… I never did haha sometimes old pictures fit perfectly or even better than new ones. Perfect Crime´s cover was also an old one from 2020, and this picture was taken in Salinas Grandes, Salta, Argentina during a trip with my friend Cesar. He took the picture and when thinking about the cover idea for Magic, my friend Eugenia suggested it should be something more “spacey” (mmm more “flashero” in Argentinian).
Well according to Urban Dictionary, that’s what flashero means but I disagree because Flashero adapts to the context, and in this case, it meant more “imaginative, spacey, out-of-this-world”. (Argentinian lessons in this blog are included).
My first thought was “wtf bro” but, originally I imagined something super corny for the cover then I found this picture and thought about Euge’s idea so I decided to give it a try and start playing with it, and after some little Photoshop, we got the winner.
So yeah, I also think that during these early stages of my career, it’s super difficult to understand that not everything will go as expected, and I struggle to understand that it might be for a reason (I can make myself an idea of why haha). I drown myself in anxiety daily because I want everything done NOW… but that’s not me, that’s my anxiety (well, yes, it’s me at the end of the day haha). So yeah, I just need to calm myself down, because after I released Magic, I realised again, how proud I am. I couldn’t be happier with everything I am achieving this year.
I learn a lot from every song I make, it’s as if each song I make is a teacher and if I don’t listen to it carefully I might miss the big lessons they have waiting for me. They can be technical lessons or just life lessons. I don’t even dare to say that just because it’s my second song I didn’t learn much from it, it gave me all technical and life lessons all in one. Impressive. But one of the things I relearn every time I have to make a song is “when to let go”. This is the second time I have had to relearn this. Right now, I’m finishing another song (the next one on the line), and I’ve also been struggling to let the song go, to close it, to say “it’s done”. I don’t know exactly why, but it is what it is.
I leave you here, Magic, in its entirety.
[VERSE]
The way you shine is something that I’ve never seen
It’s so unique
You’re like a spell, hypnotizing to the core
So unreal
[PRE CHORUS]
You fill the room up with glow
You light up everywhere you go
[CHORUS]
You’re another kind of magic
You’re my kind of magic
You’re the kind of magic we need in this world, baby
You’re another kind of magic
You’re my kind of magic
You’re the kind of magic we need in this world, baby
[ VERSE 2]
You make me wanna stand
on my feet and dance
You make me wanna tag along
Go everywhere you go
You make me feel so loved
You make me feel alive
This life just feels so right
Please never go
[PRE CHORUS 2]
You fill the room up with glow
You light up everywhere you go
[CHORUS]
You’re another kind of magic
You’re my kind of magic
You’re the kind of magic we need in this world, baby
You’re another kind of magic
You’re my kind of magic
You’re the kind of magic we need in this world, baby
[BRIDGE]
Okey, one, two, three
Stand up on your feet
You make me feel alive
This life just feels so right
Oh my god I love you so much!
[CHORUS]
You’re another kind of magic
You’re my kind of magic
You’re the kind of magic we need in this world, baby
You’re another kind of magic
You’re my kind of magic
You’re the kind of magic we need in this world, baby
You make me wanna stand
on my feet and dance
You’re another kind of magic
You’re my kind of magic
You’re the kind of magic we need in this world, baby
You make me wanna tag along
Go everywhere you go
You make me feel so loved
You make me feel alive
This life just feels so right
Please never go
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