The November song

Olvida

Whoever knows me calls me passionate. People often refer to my Spanish roots… I’ll admit, I can get angry or sad in a way that might seem “typically Spanish.” But I can also be joyful. Happy. In love. Enthusiastic—in that passionate, Spanish way.

Yet this song is about anger, frustration, and sadness. When something triggers these emotions, my mood can shift in an instant. Sometimes, I can sense it coming and sidestep the confrontation with my anger. And sometimes, I don’t see it until it’s too late:

“Anger delivered with a button to open. It cannot be put back inside and always forgotten.”

Because so much of our life is digital now, those emotions also come wrapped in bits and bytes. You open a message you didn’t want to read…

“Click here for sadness but you cannot swipe back. Once you accept, you’ll carry tears in your pack.”

It’s deeply human, and perhaps a bit foolish, that all the bad stuff weighs so much more in our attention and memory than the good. Writing this song was an attempt to turn that around—at least for me.

Here’s my ode to forgetting. Olvida means “forget” in Spanish. Olvidalo means “forget it.” This song is my mantra on angry days…

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Song Lyrics & credits

Yuna Mas - 'Olvida'

Song Lyrics

Bad vibes bad vibes

How they spoiled the fun today

Bad stuff, you know

Stuff that happened on my way

Anger delivered

with a button to open

It cannot be put back inside

and always forgotten

Olvida…

Stories that I hate to tell

Stories and questions

The answers hurt like hell

Click here for sadness

but you cannot swipe back

Once you accept

you’ll carry tears in your pack

Olvidalo

I empty my bin

And I unload my mind

Olvidalo

I empty my bin

And I unload my mind

Bad vibes bad vibes

How they spoiled the fun today

Bad stuff, you know

Stuff that happened on my way

Anger delivered

with a button to open

It cannot be put back inside

and always forgotten

Olvida…

Stories that I hate to tell

Stories and questions

The answers hurt like hell

Click here for sadness

but you cannot swipe back

Once you accept

you’ll carry tears in your pack

Olvidalo

I empty my bin

And I unload my mind

Olvidalo

I empty my bin

And I unload my mind

Olvida olvida

I cannot forget

All the tiny nasty details

Remain stuck in my head

Olvida olvida

I just wipe out the dirt

All the tiny pretty details

I will write on my shirt

Olvida olvida

All the bad stuff that occurs

We all want eternal sunshine

But that isn’t how it works

Olvida olvida

It’s like that in the end

There’s no light without the dark

This I can comprehend

Olvidalo

(Olvida!)

I empty my bin

And I unload my mind

Olvidalo

(Olvida!)

I empty my bin

And I unload my mind

Olvidalo

(Olvida!)

I empty my bin

And I unload my mind

Olvidalo

(Olvida!)

I empty my bin

And I unload my mind

Copyright: Aline Juliá

Credits

Written, composed and sung by Aline Juliá.

Arranged and produced by all of us

Jan Hautekiet – piano & keyboards

Pieter Vereertbrugghen – drum & percussion

Dirk De Groef – guitar

Koen Vanbets – bass

Milos Willemse Juliá – euphonium

Dmitri Dijkstra – trumpets

Barbara Pieters – sax

Yannic Fonderie – vocal production

Dirk Lekenne – recording engineer/mixer