Ha*Ash shares how performing at Viña del Mar in 2018 changed the trajectory of their career, how they’re able to maintain their energy after 23 years of their career, working with Thalia on “Amiga Date Cuenta,” an upcoming release for a new single, red flags they have for men and more.
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00:00If there is a story that we are laughing our asses off about,
00:03we have to tell this in a song.
00:05Ya no la paseo borracha.
00:15Well, friends of Billboard, and today, from Chile,
00:18we brought them from Miami.
00:20Now we are in Chile, in Viña del Mar.
00:22How are you, Hash?
00:23We are happy with life, excited, grateful.
00:27This is the second time here in Viña del Mar.
00:30We are happy to talk to you.
00:32How nice.
00:33You have not been here since 2018.
00:36How does the excitement feel now?
00:38Because obviously it is totally different.
00:40Now you are going to be singing.
00:42Well, the first time we were judges and we sang.
00:45And it was a very beautiful experience.
00:47We have talked about it a lot, but we feel that there was a before and after in our career.
00:51Because Viña is seen by all of Latin America.
00:54And it was an opportunity for people to get to know our music.
00:57And I remember that there were countries where we were going to do theaters.
01:01After Viña, we managed to go to do stadiums.
01:04So it was a before and after very important for us.
01:08And we are very grateful to Viña.
01:10Now that we received the invitation to come again,
01:13we were very excited because we are just now touring South America.
01:18And it is a festival that we have a lot of appreciation for.
01:23It is very prestigious.
01:25And it is a monster.
01:26But we are happy because our Chilean fans
01:29support us and make us feel with that value.
01:3223 years of career.
01:34I feel that we have all grown together.
01:37With your music, with your stories.
01:40How do you enjoy each process?
01:43Because it is tiring.
01:44Right now we were talking behind the cameras about what the tour is all about.
01:47How do you maintain that energy?
01:51During the day, we try to go to the gym
01:56to maintain the endorphin levels up.
02:01But when you are in the dressing room,
02:04and you are listening to people scream,
02:06the energy is already there alone.
02:09And you can be tired, you can feel bad, anything can happen.
02:15And when you are there, and the stage is there,
02:19and you listen to your fans, everything happens in the background.
02:23Also, I think that when you value that you have a stage,
02:26and you have the opportunity.
02:27For Ashley, for me, we wouldn't be here 23 years later
02:30if it wasn't for the live music, if it wasn't for the tour.
02:33To be able to go to a place and be told it is sold out.
02:37It didn't come from the sea.
02:38They told us that our night is sold out.
02:40To know that people are giving us their afternoon,
02:43is something we value a lot.
02:44Because we know that tomorrow they can choose not to do it.
02:47And for us, we have had the fortune of being able to tour for 23 years.
02:52With the last tour, we gave more than 130 concerts.
02:54Now we have been with this new tour for 6 months,
02:57and the response has been incredible all over Latin America.
03:01And this tour, for us, is the biggest one.
03:03Now we are taking it to Canada, the United States, Spain,
03:06Central America, South America, Mexico.
03:09And we don't take it for free.
03:11Obviously, as human beings, sometimes we get tired.
03:13But as Ashley says,
03:14the gratitude and the emotion of living what we are living,
03:17that hasn't gone away yet.
03:19How do you manage to value so much love and so much affection?
03:22Because sometimes life goes so fast in general.
03:25Obviously, for you, there is a million,
03:27between concerts and tours and music too.
03:31But how do you manage to value each moment and each reception of affection?
03:36I think gratitude.
03:37And knowing that tomorrow you won't be able to do it again.
03:43And many people ask us, how do you keep connecting?
03:48If we had that answer, we would pass it on to everyone who had that dream.
03:52Or who had a season and are no longer here.
03:54Ashley, having 23 years of continuing to connect,
03:577 albums, 2 albums live,
04:00we are very grateful that our stories continue to connect with others.
04:04And I think that when you know that tomorrow you may not be here,
04:07it always makes you value that more.
04:10Because someone who goes to a show is fixing their whole afternoon.
04:13Or you are in someone's playlist in their life.
04:15Wow, what a privilege.
04:17And I think that when you have that,
04:19and it hasn't always been good moments.
04:21We have also had moments where it has been like a roller coaster.
04:25And I think that the moments where we had to work more and harvest more,
04:30I think it makes you value the good moments.
04:32As in the case of now, we are living.
04:35And I also think that the fact of being in a family,
04:38and also being your daughter, sharing,
04:41I think that keeps them.
04:43Yes, it would be impossible not to do it.
04:45When I go to normal school, it will be more difficult.
04:48But right now I have the privilege of having 4,
04:50and that everyone is still family.
04:52I don't miss my family so much because I travel with a part that is my sister.
04:57And look, the family continues to grow.
04:59Now we have the little star of Hush, who is my daughter.
05:03We love to see you on social media,
05:05see the stories too,
05:07and the pampered aunt.
05:11I heard a story from a while ago,
05:14when you were a baby,
05:16that you fell.
05:18Yes.
05:19I fell from the cart.
05:23Very bad thing of mine.
05:25But yes, I don't ride it drunk anymore.
05:30What would be the most recent adventure you had with your niece?
05:37The one I burned.
05:39Ah, the one you burned.
05:41No, but count well, because people are going to say that.
05:47I was bathing her, I put a lot of hot water,
05:50I forgot that it was very hot,
05:52and I put her in and she said,
05:54I took out her legs and they were red.
05:58But well, nothing serious.
06:00The feet can take it.
06:02That's the good thing, that her mom is super relaxed.
06:04Yes.
06:05Yes, because obviously accidents happen.
06:08And the kids, in the end,
06:10nobody wants to hurt them.
06:12They are accidents that can happen to me too.
06:15But I always say, the aunt has a good time because...
06:19But well, there have also been things.
06:21The last time we were in Zacatecas,
06:25Matilda was sleeping on top of me.
06:27We were going to the airport.
06:29She said, I don't feel well.
06:33She vomited all over me.
06:35So she got the award.
06:37But yes, Ashley comes to receive love,
06:40and then she doesn't have the responsibility.
06:43That's how I do it with my boyfriends too.
06:46Things that happen.
06:48Speaking of that, let's see, friend, realize.
06:51Tell me a little bit about this song.
06:53Well, amiga, date cuenta, I think it's the perfect song.
06:56Because when you're with your friends,
06:59and between jokes and jokes, the truth comes out.
07:02Imagine being in a bar, drinking,
07:04and you're like, amiga, date cuenta.
07:06I tell you, right?
07:08And then Hannah tells you, amiga, date cuenta.
07:10And the other friend, you say,
07:12they're trying to tell me something, right?
07:14And how do you do it?
07:16How do you do it?
07:18Well, you say, they're trying to tell me something, right?
07:21And what friend?
07:23We don't know her, she's with a guy.
07:26And it's like, amiga, date cuenta.
07:28So I think it's a good song to break the ice.
07:32And for people to sing to Ashley,
07:34many times too, of her bad decisions.
07:36The bad thing is that we don't listen.
07:39When the relationship is over,
07:41why didn't I listen to them?
07:43But you know what?
07:44It's always good to have a song
07:46to sing it, to feel it.
07:48And being able to collaborate with Thalia
07:50was super nice.
07:51Every time we saw each other,
07:52it was, when are we going to do something?
07:53We have to do something together.
07:55And when we had amiga, date cuenta,
07:57in our hands, Ashley and I said,
07:59this is to do it with Thalia.
08:01She was so excited that two days later,
08:03I was in the studio recording it,
08:05and in the video,
08:07the passion and love that Thalia puts into everything,
08:11I was shocked,
08:13and I see why Thalia is still where she is.
08:16She doesn't do anything if she's not passionate.
08:18I remember minutes before the awards,
08:20the three of us in the chair,
08:22she said, with everything,
08:23we're going to break her, with everything.
08:25And she, you know,
08:26the best porrista,
08:28giving her all the good vibes.
08:30The truth is,
08:31it was incredible working with her.
08:33And we have a dance step,
08:35and before going up,
08:37I twisted my ankle.
08:39And I told her,
08:41let's not do the step.
08:42She said, of course not,
08:43I'm going to do it.
08:44And she did it.
08:45And I want to imagine that,
08:47finishing the show,
08:49her ankle was this big.
08:51She uploaded the photos later.
08:53With the ankle.
08:55But the truth is,
08:56she's a champion.
08:57And it's admirable,
08:58after so many years of career,
09:00she still has that desire,
09:02that energy,
09:03and it's contagious.
09:05And zero merit.
09:07And you know that,
09:08apart from the friends who don't realize,
09:11where the best stories come from.
09:13Exactly.
09:14People don't know the stories they don't have.
09:17I think we wouldn't have so many songs about heartbreak,
09:19if it weren't for the times Ashley never listened to me.
09:24If you take me to a party,
09:26and there's a party,
09:27I'm going there.
09:29But the good thing is,
09:30right now I'm single.
09:32So, I have...
09:34Let's break that rule.
09:39And generally, how does it work?
09:42Ashley tells you,
09:43look, this happened to me,
09:45this guy is doing this to me,
09:46and then the song comes out.
09:48Look, there's everything.
09:50But normally,
09:51when, I don't know,
09:52the next morning,
09:53she talks to me to tell the gossip about what happened.
09:57If there's a story that we're laughing our asses off about,
10:00we have to tell this in a song.
10:02Or there have been more serious songs,
10:04where Ashley decides she's going to break up with someone,
10:07and we sit down,
10:08and the song comes out.
10:09There hasn't been a rule,
10:11but definitely,
10:12for us, writing is letting go.
10:14It's getting it out.
10:16And there's nothing more gratifying
10:18than getting it out,
10:19and for someone to come up to you and say,
10:21I feel like you wrote this song for me,
10:23or this song accompanied me in a difficult moment in my life.
10:26Because it gives all the value in the world to what we do.
10:29And our songs are so transparent,
10:31and so...
10:34You can see that that's what was happening.
10:36In fact, there's a song that's coming out soon,
10:38that we haven't been able to get out,
10:40because it's so personal.
10:42And I couldn't finish singing it at the shows,
10:45because I cried, cried, cried, cried.
10:47So people didn't understand what I wanted to sing.
10:51But now,
10:53I have the courage to get it out.
10:55So that song is coming out soon,
10:58and it's the most personal song I've composed.
11:02And are you going to do it alone or with collaboration?
11:04Alone.
11:05And what other surprises are coming,
11:07that you have prepared?
11:09Well, look,
11:10we have planned to continue with the tour
11:12throughout Latin America,
11:13Europe, the United States, this year.
11:15But we'll be releasing new music,
11:18because we've been recording and writing songs.
11:20So we'll keep releasing new music,
11:22and we'll complement it on the tour,
11:25which so far, we have dates until December.
11:28So there are many dates.
11:31And obviously, for tonight,
11:34sorry, for tomorrow night,
11:36I feel like it's going to be a night of despair.
11:39Like a karaoke.
11:40Well, Hush is a song of despair, yes.
11:44Normally, when we write love songs,
11:48they tend to be more my stories,
11:50and I'm a little more courteous,
11:52Ashley is a little more dramatic,
11:54she has a little more acid humor.
11:56And I think people identify a lot more with me.
12:00It's always the lack of love.
12:02I don't know why,
12:03but people like more the lack of love.
12:05There are some love songs,
12:06like El Cielo Te Mando Para Mi,
12:08that people have liked a lot,
12:10or Cien Años Yo Quiero Estar Sin Ados Contigo,
12:12a song with Prince Royce that was great.
12:14But well, it's true that...
12:16But who doesn't...
12:17Imagine, you're there in Quinta Vergara,
12:19and you're like,
12:20Oh, I'm sorry.
12:22And you're remembering who hurt you,
12:24you're going to want to scream.
12:26Imagine,
12:27El Cielo Te Mando Para Mi.
12:29Me too.
12:30For lovers, it's the best,
12:32to be able to have a song.
12:33But,
12:34it's better for people who are single to go.
12:37Single men too.
12:38I think you're reflecting a lot.
12:39Yes, you wanted a Chilean.
12:41Well, because right now I'm in Chile.
12:45In a week,
12:46in a week I'm in Argentina.
12:48I'm going to require an Argentinian.
12:52And if you could tell me
12:53like three tips
12:54that you would give to a friend who doesn't know Cuenta.
12:57Three tips
12:58that your friends or your loved ones would listen to.
13:01Because normally...
13:02Like red flags.
13:03Okay.
13:04Treat your mom badly.
13:06Ah, okay.
13:07Number one.
13:08Treat the waiters badly.
13:11Also.
13:13And don't wash your mouth.
13:18And you, Hannah?
13:19I share a lot.
13:21Okay, another red flag would be...
13:23I would say that he doesn't have a job.
13:29It doesn't matter what job, that he doesn't have a job.
13:31Or that he is very secretive.
13:36Oh, those who answer the phone here?
13:39Like everything is very secretive.
13:41Or that you suddenly realize that he has three cell phones.
13:45Someone who has three cell phones? No.
13:48I warned you.
13:50I had two.