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Jennifer Lopez may be America's favorite crossover diva, but in Mexico, that title goes to Paulina Rubio. She's a successful singer as well as a star of a soap opera and hit movies like Bésame en la Boca. Now Rubio has recorded her
English-language debut Border Girl, and the sexy "Don't Say Goodbye" video is leaving many male viewers weeping "Madre a dios!" VH1 discovered that not even language barriers will keep the irrepressible Rubio from expressing herself.
VH1: Border Girl has a cover of KISS's "I Was Made For Lovin' You." How did that come about?
Paulina Rubio: I love that song. KISS's first album was the first album that I ever bought. I made 20 records before Border Girl and this is actually the first cover I recorded. I remember dancing to it when I was 10 years old; I couldn't get into a nightclub because I was so young. The song reminded me of when I was little, thinking about love and imagining all these situations. What more can you say to someone than "I was made for loving you?"
VH1: You traveled a lot as a child. It must have been hard to keep KISS albums hidden from your mom.
Rubio: I was born in Mexico City, but I grew up between Spain, Italy and Los Angeles. My mother is a writer and an actress, so I grew up behind a film camera! Having musicians and writers and architects and crazy people around me was my first inspiration. I had all this art in my blood.
VH1: Did your parents try to stop you from following your mother into show business?
Rubio: They didn't have any other option. I needed to express the way I feel about life and love in my music. I began writing songs when I was six or seven years old. I couldn't imagine myself doing anything else. They sent me to Canada and thought I would forget all these ideas. But after two months I was starring in Grease as Sandy!
VH1: If you led such an itinerant lifestyle, why call the album Border Girl?
Rubio: Border Girl means different things. First, it's Paulina growing up in different countries and absorbing different cultures. We also have borders in our minds and borders between our relationships. I believe in a world with no borders, so on Border Girl I mix different rhythms. I make a fusion between Mexico and Spain and Italy. I wanted to show the world that even with music, I don't have rules. That's why I make a fusion of different cultures and play acoustic and play with techno and dance. The album even has a mariachi hip-hop song called "The Last Goodbye." Music lets you share feelings and the ideas what believe in. That's what Border Girl is about.
VH1: With your first English-language album, you're preparing to cross another boundary.
Rubio: For me, it's important to record in different languages. I did it in French and Italian. If they asked me to sing in Japanese, I would do it. Even when I do not speak the language, I try to express it with my body language instead. English is a universal language, and the idea with Border Girl was to connect with other parts of the world, with the whole planet, and - why not? - the whole universe!
VH1: Why did you choose "Don't Say Goodbye" as the first single?
Rubio: I chose it because we girls are not victims any more. "Don't Say Goodbye" is about asking your lover why he needs to leave right now, instead of tomorrow or later? I had the idea of showing that I love motorcycles, action and Japanese manga cartoons. The song has a lot of rhythm and a lot of vibrations, so I just interpreted "Don't Say Goodbye" as a manga cartoon! We did everything in animation and I designed this futuristic motorcycle.
VH1: What will be the next single?
Rubio: "The One You Love." It's one of my favorite songs. I chose the guitars because they're feminine instruments. They express my voice, feelings and my roots between Spain and Mexico, even when I'm not singing.
VH1: Have you shot a video yet?
Rubio: Not yet. We're going to Los Angeles and I'm going to choose the best director. I can imagine this video like a spaghetti western. I will be a bad girl, fighting with men. Because we girls are the power of the new millennium. We are more loyal and more intelligent! This song is very feministic. So I imagine myself on a horse, drinking tequila and just fighting with guys!
VH1: When are you going to be performing live?
Rubio: I'm starting a world tour in October. I'm going to come all around the world to show how we do a concert with different DJs, with mariachi bands, with batucada, with my band, and just to be free to [sings] "Turn off the light, turn off the light" - play the guitar, play the bass, or just jump into the audience!
VH1: I was reading in your sleeve notes about your global perspective, where you talk about "small planet, peace planet, love planet, no violence, love." Is that your philosophy?
Rubio: Yeah. I hate violence. I'm a peace girl, you know? I can write messages into my music or put together lyrics or harmonies that fill the atmosphere with peace. I came from Mexico and we had a lot of problems down in Chiapas. I did a couple of concerts for them. We need to use all this energy to make different things and positive things. Make love, not war!
VH1: When do you find time to sleep?
Rubio: I'm hyperactive. Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and I need to have a pen and paper to write down all these ideas. Otherwise when I wake up I go, "What was it? Something about a spaghetti western …" Just joking! I'm always very serious, so I try to have a double sense of humor. This is not writing novels. This is music. It's popular. This is sharing feelings and having fun. I love to have fun. I'm crazy, but I'm different, you know?
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