Diandra Interviews Girl Ultra: How Sad Songs Move The World And Your Confidence

I really like Girl Ultra. Known as Mexico’s Drake, she is giving Latin Music a modern, smooth R&B innovation. Her sheer determination comes out in her literal visualization of her music and image, especially because she sees music as a builder of empathy and empowerment. Thus, through a good, sad song, she learns to own herself and hopes you do, as well. 

Diandra: How you define Finesse {record}?

Girl Ultra: I think that it is a creative incubator and a family. We are always involved in each other’s projects, each artist’s productions, and are aware of what is going on in each other’s world. Its about being there for people. 

Diandra: What does Girl Ultra bring out of you as an alter ego?

Girl Ultra: I am pretty shy. I am an introvert. Then I step on stage and she turns into this diva that can defeat and overcome everything.  I used to think that Girl Ultra was an alter ego, but now I think she is this very deep part of me that I do not get to take out very often. She is my empowerment when I get on stage. 

Diandra: So what do you think attracted you, as Girl Ultra, to R&B?

Girl Ultra: It is an honest genre. I think the melodies and progressions say it all. Even if you do not understand what people are saying, you always feel something through the melodies. That is what I want to do. I want to create this bond with Latin People. Yeah, you can relate to a genre because you have been listening to it all your life, but when something is in your language, you feel everything. You feel the message. I want to make this message transmission, and make its message accessible for everybody. 

Diandra: I find it intriguing that you say you are shy, but yet R&B is all about confidence, passion, and sex.

Girl Ultra: Yeah, its about passionate sex. My message is pretty personal, and is from personal experiences. I want to make my music for common people. They can understand what I have been through in simple messages about love. My music is all related to human relationships, and R&B matches what I want to say. 

Diandra: So what do you think R&B has taught you about owning your person? 

Girl Ultra: I don’t know. I try to find empowerment with music. When I am in front of a microphone that is the peak of my confidence, and I want people to feel like that when they listen to me. I  don’t know if they are doctors or students, but I want, when people listen to me, that they feel like someone else. Music should make you feel like you can be something else. Whether someone is listening to me on a streaming service and I am in Mexico in my bedroom, I want them to feel a bond with me. When someone pays a ticket to see me it is because they relate to me, and I want to feed this bond. Music helps me reach into my truest self, and that is what I want to give to people. 

Diandra: Well, I think you are doing it, and you have been compared to Drake. How do you feel about such comparisons? 

Girl Ultra: (she laughs) Yeah. Well, we are both scorpios. I study a lot artists that are scorpios, and I truly relate to them and how they see the world. 

Diandra: You are very inspired by Mexico’s Golden Age in Cinema. Are there any specific films that inspired you? 

Girl Ultra: Not films. I was very inspired by the characters of Sylvia Pinal. This is in regards to my visual direction. I liked her poses. With all this class, she says everything about an era, her oppressions, her boyfriends, and her family. With a pose, she could say everything that she was and what women were going through. So I feel like I can say, not exactly about {systemic} oppressions, as much as personal oppressions. I like to do a lot of poses, and deconstruct my art and put pieces of me. The poses are like a fraction of a moment of what I felt.  

Diandra: Well, Sylvia’s characters were all about how society can trickle individual lives and relationships. How do you think it plays a role? 

Girl Ultra: I think we are pretty obsessive as people. I feel like this era is about being paranoid. Who is he? Who is she? Where is he? Where is she? It has given us a madness, and in Sylvia Pinal’s era everything was inside your home. Now it is in the palm of your hand. In her time, a woman would ask, “Where is my husband?”, and now you do not have to speculate. You can take 15 minutes and be a creeper on Instagram.

Diandra: How do you hope your music elevates that paranoia? 

Girl Ultra: I feel like sad music moves the world. Of course, there are party anthems, but when you relate with a sad song, there is nothing like that. It is timeless. When you hear a song that makes you feel empathy, you are always going to go back to it. I feel like artists are feeling mediums. It is a curse and a blessing, but, every time you jump onto the stage, you have to revive those feelings so that you can make the people feel that. Somehow, it is a self-therapy, and we listen to music for healing.  

After the interview, I got to chat with  Girl Ultra, and saw her talent is her compass as she build her roads to prosperity. he is impressively perseverant as she lets her ambition burn within her until, one day, the world sees that such fire burning is also her light shining. For More Information on Girl Ultra Click Here.