:format(webp)/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/grupoclarin/K6BLETWQB5B3BBPST6T5ELHXWA.jpg?fit=%2C&ssl=1 "Emilia reflected on the controversies she was involved in and apologized to her fans")
This Saturday, Emilia Mernes performed the first of her 10 shows at the Movistar Arena and apologized to her fans for having disappeared for so long on social networks. The singer said that she was afraid to talk about certain topics and she recognized the importance of taking care of mental health.
When artists are forced to express their ideas, silence is also a political response
Emilia lived a day full of emotions on her first night of the 10 shows she will perform in the coming days, produced by Fenix Entertainment. Her first concert featured the participation of Duki, Tiago PZK, Nicki Nicole, Callejero Fino and FMK as guest artists.
At one point in the show, the artist spoke to those present and apologized for having disappeared for so long. “I felt overwhelmed by the hate on social media,” she explained.
Indirectly, the young woman referred to the criticism she received recently after the controversy with her lawyers and an entrepreneur who used her image to make artisanal merchandising; and her resounding silence when a Spanish journalist asked her about the defunding of culture that Javier Milei’s government is carrying out.
Emilia Mernes asked that artists no longer be compared to each other
“If I hadn’t done work for myself, if I hadn’t done my therapy, if I hadn’t worked on self-love, I don’t know if it would have been possible for me to be standing here with all of you. Sometimes I regret not having talked about certain topics. If I didn’t do it, it was because I was afraid that my voice was not important enough and that anything I said would be reduced to a headline,” she acknowledged.
Emilia in her first show at the Movistar Arena (Photo: @simon_canedo)
Emilia assured that being with her fans is “her safe place” and that “she feels calm” on stage. “Day by day I am trying to find my own voice and I love seeing how many of those present identify with my music, just as I identify with a lot of female artists that inspire me and that I love,” she expressed.
Towards the end of the speech, the singer seemed very angry with the comparisons that people make between artists and asked them to end it: “It makes me so angry when we are constantly compared. It is exhausting. Too much is already demanded of women in the industry standing here. Enough comparing us. If we copy each other, whoever does the most numbers, whoever wore that first… Stop it, please. Join us.”
