ARMAGEDÓN
“I think, in some way, that the universe made it, not even myself,” HUMBE tells Apple Music about ARMAGEDÓN. “Everything fell together in the [most] perfect way possible, and that’s something that really makes me think and wonder if we’re actually in a fucking simulation.” While the Monterrey-based singer-songwriter may ponder whether something divinely astral birthed his latest release, he nonetheless deserves credit for pulling off such a heady concept record.
Designed and sequenced as a seamless start-to-finish listening experience, the album noticeably diverges from the themes and vibes of his prior full-lengths AURORA and ESENCIA. Drawing inspiration from a ’90s disaster blockbuster of the same name, it uses the idea of a meteor heading for Earth as both metaphor and allegory for problematic romantic relationships. Cosmic calamity looms large, starting with the unmistakably apocalyptic cover artwork and carrying into his well-delivered and heartfelt lyrics. “The first time you see a meteor, you feel like it’s very pretty and a celestial moment,” he says. “Then, when you realize that meteor is heading towards you, and it’s about to kill you, that’s when everything switches your perspective.” Read on to learn about some of HUMBE’s favorite songs from ARMAGEDÓN—in his own words.
“BANDERA”
“This is the moment in which you realize that that’s a fucking meteor, that it’s coming to kill you. There’s some times in which you’re too in love, or you’re too into someone, that you’re just like, ‘Fuck it.’ You don’t see the red flags. That’s ‘BANDERA’; that’s literally the title. It’s a red flag.”
“SAGITARIO A*”
“You are actually now having problems with your essence switch. You’re kind of delulu, but then you start noticing that, because you’re more into being someone’s pleaser, you’ve stopped being your self-pleaser. You started giving more love than you were giving to yourself. And that’s when you start actually seeing the fucking meteor coming to kill you. You had already seen it, but you now look at it. You see the context of it, and you realize that it’s actually going to end you. Sagitario A* is actually this black hole that is invisible, that was discovered in 2020. I felt like it was a perfect name, because it’s literally that: an invisible black hole, a toxic relationship.”
“TINTO DE VERANO”
“Have you ever had bees or flies coming around you and just stressing you out? Well, it’s me being that person around someone, and it’s me getting obsessed to such points in which you’re just ready to offer everything. It then gets into this verse that talks about how you’re making a petition to the person, or a complaint about why isn’t it more reciprocal.”
“1960”
“In Mexico, there’s a lot of closed-ness into sexual openness. You cannot have relationships before marriage, like sexual relationships, and it’s very badly seen in a way. That’s when, the 1960s, when the Sexual Revolution started to take place, and people started to have sex before marriage worldwide. Yet, I don’t know why, in some places it still hasn’t come through. This song has this context in which I’m fighting with this idea firsthand, of me losing the essence, of me wanting to grasp into something that is leaving already, as well as me trying to fight with all the past ideas that I don’t want for my future.”
“novatos”
“I wrote this in a moment of vulnerability. I don’t feel like this very often, but I wanted to be with someone. There’s this relationship that I admire so much, which is my brother and his girlfriend. I admire it in the best way possible, not in a crazy brother way, in a beautiful way because it’s the most pure fucking love I’ve seen. It’s inspiring. In this song, everything that came across my mind was how would my brother ask her to marry him. And it’s, in a way, me also projecting my non-relationship into being with someone, and being new to the relationship. It just came together very beautifully.”
“bien hecho”
“It’s universe-made, as I said. The last song, it really blends perfectly with this album at the end. It’s a song that I released two years ago, that I didn’t even think about making about all this context and the message in it. And it all comes together in a perfect way.”
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