DannyLux
Limerencia
Album · Regional Mexican · 2022
“Being in this relationship really helped me to make these lyrics feel even more real,” DannyLux tells Apple Music about his latest project. The young singer-songwriter has stayed in the sadboi spotlight ever since achieving viral notoriety with his Eslabon Armado team-up “Jugaste y Sufrí”. For Limerencia, he drew inspiration from his current real-life long-distance romance, one so heavily laden with emotional potency that it spawned seven distinct songs. The single “Junto A Ti” expresses that youthful love directly, while the gloomier “Alguien Mejor” and “No Te Quiero Perder” will, no doubt, resonate with those familiar with the depths of heartache. “I know I’m a teenager falling in love,” he adds with a twinge of self-awareness, “but it feels so real to me.” Read more about the songs of Limerencia, in the artist’s own words, below.
“No Te Quiero Perder”
“It’s already in the title —‘I don’t want to lose you.’ I just felt so worried one day because I was texting her, and she was acting weird towards me. It was a whole week of her not really showing the love she had towards me anymore. I was going crazy in my room. I’m not really the kind to express myself crying or anything like that, but I started writing the song and the lyrics came instantly. The whole song is just about me, and whenever she’s not with me, I just feel so empty. She eventually told me that she was acting like that because it’s just so hard, the distance, and she just wants me to be there with her at all times.”
“Desamor”
“That one is basically how somebody feels when they go through a breakup, when something happens in their relationship that they didn’t want to happen, of course. That whole song is just me imagining how it would feel to actually go through all that. And even thinking about it hurt me. I don’t know why, even though nothing has happened, I would just imagine it. The idea of it just hurt me.”
“Te Extraño”
“That’s one of the more sentimental songs on the album. It means ‘I miss you’. And that one’s how I would feel a couple months after the breakup. And the lyrics to that song start off saying, ‘Tell me if you want love or tell me if you want to just always be hurt.’ And then, the next one is, ‘Tell me if you want warmth or if you want to stay cold.’ It’s me trying to make her tell me what she wants. Does she even love me? I feel like that song is going to make people cry.”
“Respuestas”
“I imagined a whole little story in my head, that I would always find out stuff about a girl. I knew that she had cheated on me, but I was too scared to tell her because I love her too much. I don’t want to confront her about it; I just don’t want to ruin anything. She’s not loving me the same as she used to, and that’s why, in the opening verse, it says, ‘It costs you to love me, how you used to love me.’ That was a pretty sick song too.”
“Alguien Mejor”
“It’s basically, as hard as you tried, you never were enough for her. You couldn’t meet her expectations, and she just never fully liked you. She never wanted to fully commit to being in a relationship with you. That song, even hearing it makes me feel like, ‘Dang, who hurt you, Danny?’ But I just write them based off of my thoughts.”
“Junto A Ti”
“I love that people love it, because it’s a love song. Normally, people like sad songs more when it comes to my music. I guess people like being sad or something. I wanted to release just a love song because I really liked it. To be honest, I really like the lyrics, the whole vibe of the song. That one’s literally about my girl. It’s literally how I feel whenever I’m with her.”
“Un Momento”
“A couple of months ago, I was on tour with Coldplay in Mexico. I was in the hotel with my whole team, and I randomly started putting these chords together on the guitar. And I was like, ‘This would sound so sick with funky-type drums.’ This one company had recently gifted me an electric guitar. I feel like it was just meant to be, because if they had never given me that electric guitar, I probably would’ve never made this song. I recorded the chords first, and then I had this producer that was on tour with me at the time put together the drums and all that. Then, on top of that, I recorded the electric part. I don’t know what happened. I just stopped working on it for a little bit. Two months passed, and I was at home, and I seen I had the demo of that song. I recorded the guitars, finished the lyrics. I just wanted it to be a perfect vibe.”