Malú has always been very reluctant to talk about her private life in interviews, preferring to express herself through her music. On Thursday night, the singer published Absent, her first song in two years, and her first since her breakup with Albert Rivera two months ago. It is for this reason that the entire song is full of hints and reproaches to the one who has been her partner for four years, following the example of Shakira's success with Bizarrap, full of attacks on Piqué.
Unlike the Colombian, Malú does not name Albert Rivera at any time. The song's lyrics begin by saying, “I don't understand why I feel so alone when I'm with you. Explain the problem to me, because I can't get it”, “Where do I look for you when you escape from my mouth”, “Whoever understands you now will be because she has also gone crazy”. And she continues singing: “You are a stranger who walks through my house, I don't recognize you, I don't understand what's wrong with you. You say you love me when you see the precipice. Malquerer has become a vice”.
The chorus of the new song by the Madrid singer says: “And I raised you up, and no one knows that. It was I who endured the echo of my name everywhere. Absent, no matter how hard you try." It is clear that she refers to the moment when Rivera stopped being in charge of Ciudadanos, and precisely her refuge was Malú, with whom she was beginning the relationship.
In the next stanza, Malú, a woman who has sung about heartbreak on numerous occasions, expresses herself like this: “I don't understand why I look in the mirror and I feel weird. I can't stop crying alone, this pain doesn't stop. Where do I move to to start over? The stanza ends with a very short sentence, but loaded with meaning: "Whatever happens... she goes first." Undoubtedly the latter is addressed to Lucía, the three-year-old daughter they have in common, and as a mother the well-being of the little girl is her top priority.
But the lyrics for Ausente were not written by Malú, but by his friend Pablo Alborán: "It was the song she needed for a moment like this," the man from Malaga told the Efe agency. "I sent it to her and she acknowledged that she had clearly written what her heart wanted to say." The composer explains that it all started from an afternoon of confessions between the two of them and "when she left, I made this song without telling her", he commented.
“For me writing for someone I have listened to since I was little, who later became my friend and we have a very special relationship, it has been a luxury and a gift, as well as being able to express their feelings in a song, and I think it was the song she needed for a moment like this", Alborán has opined.
Despite the breakup, Malú and Albert Rivera seem to be trying to maintain a cordial relationship, as was demonstrated on August 20 when the lawyer's father died suddenly. Malú, who was on vacation in Sancti Petri with her daughter, traveled with her mother to Malaga, to shelter her ex-partner and her family.
