Mama Dousha: "I have built a project that does not depend on the success of any 'single'"

BarcelonaBruno de Fabriziis (Barcelona, 1993), artistically known as Mama Dousha, shies away from radio hits and presents his new artistic project Tothom té raó (Promo Arts Music, 2026), nine songs that, he says, engage anyone who listens to them. Nostalgia, love, social criticism, and the passage of time have allowed him to reconnect with the most romantic side of music, with an ambitious project produced by eight hands.

How have you experienced the release of Tothom té raó?

— It has been a very intense period. I admit that at first I was very obsessed with how this album would be received, but now I take it with much more peace.

Did it surprise you how the public received it?

— Yes. Until now, my way of connecting with the public was to release a single that got stuck on the radio and suddenly blew up. With this album, I was interested in something else: building a more artistic project that doesn't depend on the success of any particular single concretely. I'm already realizing that the result is slow-burning. I don't have any song that stands out above the others, but people who enter my profile listen to several songs in a row, which didn't happen before. This is exactly what I wanted.

This project is co-produced by Scotty DK, Guillem Bautista and Joan Borràs, a member of Oques Grasses. If it's the most personal album you've made, how come it was born from such a collective process?

— It has been the way to reconnect with the most romantic part of music. We locked ourselves away for several weeks in a house in Huesca, Scotty, Guillem, Joan Borràs, Joan Sanmartí (videographer) and myself, with a single premise: to make music. Seeing five people excited and obsessed, making songs from scratch… One would throw out an idea, another would pick it up and run with it. The only area I steered was that of the lyrics, but in the musical aspect, I haven't contributed more than the others, not at all. It has been one hundred percent collaborative.

The title of the album has several readings.

— I wanted to send two messages. The first is that I lived through a time when I felt overwhelmed by external opinions: anyone would open up to me on Instagram to tell me how to do my job. The second is that this album was made in communion. Locked away in that house there were many existential conversations, and suddenly you would think: "Wow, everyone is right." There is a negative reading and a positive one, and both seem valid to me.

You open the album with He pensat, a song about all those things we postpone for fear of making mistakes. Are you a person who overthinks things?

— I've healed a bit, yes, but I'm quite obsessive and there are nights I don't sleep, thinking about I don't know what. In this song in particular, I talk about a past Bruno. Now I find myself at a much more stable point and comfortable with my thoughts. I've been going to therapy for thirteen years and, in the end, I've become a person who considers themselves happy.

To Nananayou explain that the song arises from one of those sleepless nights. When you can't sleep, do you write?

— All the lyrics on the album are real, they talk about things I have lived. And sometimes from those sleepless nights something came out, like the phrase from Nanana: "I don't know if I'm wasting time or if time is wasting me".

Is making music therapy?

— It's not therapy. It's the only thing I can do and the only thing I want to do. Everything that music encompasses is part of me and gives me life: writing songs, performing them on stage, sending a message to the audience, preparing the concert, the promo tours. I love all of this, but it's not therapeutic.

In 15 seconds you narrate howwe often believe that dedicating time to studies or work – decisions that will condition our future – is enough. But then love comes and turns everything upside down. How has love changed you?

— I am one of those people who fully believe in All you need is love. I believe that the strongest thing in life is love. It can overcome anything. Anyone can identify with this idea: when you fall in love, your perception of life changes totally and absolutely. I think this way, and it is evident in my lyrics. The other day I was thinking about it and I believe that 90% of my songs are about love. In this album, perhaps it's the least, but if you go back, it's a classic for me. I consider myself a hopeless romantic.

It's an album where you haven't left criticism behind. Were you looking forward to it?

— I wanted to be sincere. Denying anger or sadness is absurd. The criticism that everything is very expensive – which appears in Contacless–, in principle, was going to be a song about gentrification, but it seemed too cliché and I diverted it to the economic theme. In Malparit I have also been sincere because I think we all meet someone we would like to make disappear and when you see them you think: "I hate you". Denying these emotions would not be real, so I did not hesitate to include them.

Returning to love. In the Eufòria semi-finals you performed The best people on the planet, the most played song on the album. Now that it's over, how do you value your time on the show?

— Superpositive. I was worried because I was afraid to enter Eufòria and be 100% in the mainstream, but it hasn't been like that. I've gained an audience, I've gained recognition, I've been paid… I mean, all positive at Eufòria. I am very satisfied with my work because another thing that worried me was not being able to say my own thing, that they would impose things on me. And I think I've been able to maintain a criterion throughout the program and I've never been silenced. But if there's another Eufòria and they don't call me, absolutely nothing happens, because I'm very clear that it's not my priority. My priority is to make music. Perhaps that's why I've experienced it so well, because I've experienced it from the perspective of "This is here, I go there, I have a good time and goodbye." If they do a fourth edition now and don't count on me, I'll say: "Okay," and I'll continue with my life.