Angélica Aragón asked not to interpret the song “Mátalas” by Alejandro Fernández

Angélica Aragón asked not to interpret the song “Mátalas” by Alejandro Fernández

"The female gender has been working for a new way of being a woman, but the men have not done that job," said the actress Angélica Aragón asked to stop singing the song "Kill them" whose most famous interpretation was made by Alejandro Fernández, because he says that the issue of violence is "so normalized that it is not possible to distinguish well what is offensive and what is not."

The actress, who recently received the Ignacio López Tarso award from the TV station, TV Azteca, said that she reviews the scripts about the episodes of the soap operas and programs she works to be able to verify that none of them speaks or acts contemptuously Women's.

He later commented on an experience he had at a children's party, in which a group of Mariachis entered the room performing the song "Kill them." When the musician began to perform the song, she said that “They start singing a song 'Kill her ...' Kisses ... but 'Kill her ...' If you want her 'Kill her ...', I said: 'Sorry, we have to stop singing that song, and then of course, there was the Mariachi to everything it gives and they say to me: 'What are you going to sing it?' (I replied) 'No ... no one will sing it' and they tell me: 'But it's from the Potrillo ...', and I told them 'and what? ... whoever it belongs to.' "

Angélica Aragón said that "such songs, for example, we should not allow them, and composers should not compose them." He also spoke about the effort of feminism to confront the constant violence suffered by women: “The female gender has been working for a new way of being a woman, but men have not done that job”CDMX TVAZTECA ALEJANDRO FERNÁNDEZ ANGÉLICA AGUIRRE FEMINICIDES

The song has caused controversy due to the increase in violent acts against women and girls, which has led society to protest to demand an end to aggressions against women. Although he said that the song is qualified as an instigator of machismo, Aragón said that, on the contrary, “it is not a macho song, on the contrary, we have to know that the only aggression that may exist against women should be that , kill them with a kiss, ”said the Mexican actress.

Aragon is the daughter of the famous composer José Ángel Espinoza "Ferrusquilla" said that we have become accustomed to aggressions against women, a situation that should be avoided. "Violence against women is so normalized that sometimes we don't even realize what is offensive, what is reprobate, what should be avoided."

The song was written by Eduardo Manuel Toscan, but the interpretation of Alejandro Fernández is the most popular, being one of the most requested successes of the Jalisco singer. Which has made him include it in his current tour, called "Made in Mexico."

Recently, Angélica Aragón said she would not appear in soap operas, since they already seem vulgar because she has not been invested enough in original stories and real writers. And he concluded that "today nobody wants to see a Mexican soap opera, on television it has permeated vulgarity and I will not participate in that."