Fanático

The song Fanático by Lali kicks off with a rock punch that doesn't ask for permission. The initial riff, sharp and direct, sounds like a challenge: it's not just a musical introduction, but the announcement that something more than a pop song is coming. The lyrics, biting and unfiltered, navigate between obsessive love and visceral rejection, with a rhythm that oscillates between pop rock and alternative rock. What's interesting isn't just the sound — which blends distorted guitars with a catchy beat — but how the song uses that energy to talk about something beyond the personal: fanaticism as a mirror of what consumes us.

Recorded in 2024 as part of an album Lali had been developing with Martín D'Agosto and Mauro De Tommaso — her usual collaborators —, Fanático reached the public on September 26 of that year as the first single from No vayas a atender cuando el demonio llama. The production, handled by De Tommaso and Federico «Don» Barreto, gave it that raw edge that sets it apart from the rest of her previous discography, where pop dominated without so many layers of distortion. The result didn't go unnoticed: in Argentina, the song climbed to the fifth spot on the Billboard Argentina Hot 100 and earned a platinum disc for sales, something she hadn't achieved before in her career. But what stood out most was the stir it caused outside the studio. After the 2023 Argentine primaries, when Javier Milei came in first in the elections, Lali used her platform to publicly criticize the then-candidate. What followed was a media storm: her words resonated with those who saw those policies as a setback, but also earned her attacks from her detractors. At Cosquín Rock 2024, she even modified the lyrics of another song to directly respond to derogatory comments the president had made about her. In that context, the song became an unintentional political act, though its essence was always more personal than partisan. That said, the detail of the Spotify billboard in Palermo — vandalized the day after its installation — ended up tainting it with controversy, as if the rock pulsating in its structure had also infected the public debate.