DELACUEVA from Zaragoza has kicked off the year with the release of Premio a Mejor Guión Original (PAMGO), the third advance of his first solo album. In the artist’s own words, it is “the sappiest song you will hear in 2025”, a statement that reflects with humor and honesty the spirit of the song: a melancholic and bittersweet look at the memories of a past love.
With this song, DELACUEVA consolidates itself in the guitar pop that has defined its recent career, consolidating itself as one of the most genuine and independent voices of the Spanish music scene.
A Tale of Memory and Magic
Award for Best Original Screenplay is not simply a song of heartbreak, but a reflection on the nature of memory and idealization. DELACUEVA explains it this way:
“My favorite songs are love stories. The real world is confusing and ambiguous, but the stories are simple fictions with morals that float in a magical atmosphere. Although they don’t always have a happy ending, that magic makes them special.”
The song was not written out of sadness, but out of nostalgia:
“It’s that sweet melancholy you feel when you remember something that was beautiful but no longer exists. You don’t remember it with sadness, but with pity, because you know how special it was and you feel sorry that it only exists in your memory.”
DELACUEVA delves into the concept of memory as a subjective and malleable construction. Inspired by conversations with psychologist friends, the artist reflects on how memory, as it is reinterpreted over time, becomes distorted and distanced from reality, until it becomes something almost magical.
Film and Pop References
The magic of memory is also reflected in the cultural references DELACUEVA incorporates in his songs. In the second stanza of the Best Original Screenplay Award, he mentions Woody Allen’s film The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985):
“I wanted to see the projection / and your silhouette in my room / as ‘The Purple Rose of / Cairo’ appeared.”
This film, which pays homage to cinema’s ability to abstract us from reality, serves as a metaphor for the central concept of the theme: the creation of a parallel reality through the idealization of memory.
This is not the first time DELACUEVA has turned to pop culture, cinema or literature to enrich his compositions. In Cuando Más Te Necesitaba, he plays with nods to Digimon and Arctic Monkeys, while in Amor A La Deriva he takes inspiration from Julio Cortázar.
A Promising Videoclip
The music video for Premio a Mejor Guión Original will be released in the coming days, showing DELACUEVA exploring a new artistic facet. The artist invites his followers to stay tuned to his social networks to not miss this release.
Technical Data Sheet of the Song
- Production and mix: Noel Campillo
- Mastering: Víctor García(Ultramarinos Mastering)
- Musicians: Jorge Portillo (guitars), Carlos Montull (bass) and Dani Katena (drums)
- Composition, vocals and guitars: Manuel de la Cueva
About DELACUEVA
Born in Zaragoza in 1994, Manuel de la Cueva, artistically known as DELACUEVA, continues to surprise with his solo project after winning awards as Best Group 2021 and Best Album 2022 in the Aragonese Music Awards. His musical proposal is based on the revaluation of songs and live performances as forms of authentic expression, moving away from the culture of immediacy and digital consumerism.
In 2024, DELACUEVA toured live performing all the unreleased songs from his album before releasing them. According to the artist:
“My songs don’t deserve to be released on a Friday on a platform competing for numbers and virality. My songs deserve to be premiered on stage, live.”
With an award for Best Original Screenplay, the Zaragozan shows that he not only keeps his principles intact, but that he is ready to continue surprising with new music in 2025.
