Music / Lola Indigo

Lola Indigo (center) with her main all-female team of dancers.^* Clockwise from top right: Claudia, Mónica, Dama Blanca and Saydi

Mimi Doblas (full name Miriam Doblas Muñoz, born 1st April 1992), known by her stage name Lola Indigo, is a Spanish singer and dancer. She's almost always accompanied by a team of dancers, usually all-female, in her performances and music clips.

Born in Madrid, but raised in Granada and a proud Andalusian, she's shown interest in music, dance and performing arts from a very young age. She entered a Spanish talent show for dancers in late 2010, which she considers her career starting point, and not long after that went to train and study in Los Angeles. In the years that follow, she would work as a backup dancer for famous singers such as Chris Brown, Miguel Bosé, Enrique Iglesias, Soraya Arnelas and Sweet California.

She also lived and worked in China for a few years, and it was there she developed an interest in singing and songwriting -she would write her first songs in English and Chinese languages. Then in late 2017, while she was working as a burlesque perofrmer back in Spain, she entered famous talent show for singers Operación Triunfo... in which she only lasted two weeks, being the first contestant to be expelled.

However, she wouldn't just give up. In July 2018, she named herself Lola Indigo and launched her music project with a first single, funk carioca "Ya No Quiero Na", which instantly became a hit song in Spain. Following singles were also well-received and led to the release of her first album in May 2019.

In Spanish TV, she also took part in season 7 of celebrity talent show Tu Cara Me Suena.

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Discography:

Albums

• Akelarre^note Basque word meaning "the place where witches hold their meetings" (2019) - which includes the following singles:
  • "Ya No Quiero Ná" ("I want nothing anymore") (2018)^note got a remix ft. Joey montana and Charly Black the same year
  • "Mujer Bruja" ("Witch woman") with Mala Rodríguez (2018)
  • "Fuerte" ("Strong") (2019)^note for the Opening of the 2019 season of talent show Fama, a bailar
  • "El Humo" ("The smoke") (2019)^note for the soundtrack of Spanish film Lo dejo cuando quiera
  • "Maldición" ("Curse") with Lalo Ebratt (2019)
• La Niña^note "The [Little] Girl" (2021) - which includes the following singles:
  • "Lola Bunny"^note named and themed after the Looney Tunes character, you guessed it with Don Patricio (2019)
  • "4 Besos" ("4 kisses") with Rauw Alejandro and Lalo Ebratt (2020)
  • "cómo te va?"^note intentional chatspeak for "¿Cómo te va?" ("how's it going?") with Beret (2020)
  • "Calle" ("Street") with Guaynaa and Cauty (2021)
  • "Spice Girls" (2021)
  • "Culo" ("Ass") with Khea (2021)
  • "La Niña de la Escuela" ("The Girl from School") with Tini and Belinda (2021)
  • "Tamagochi" (2021)
• El Dragón^note "The Dragon" (coming 2023) - which will include the following singles:
  • "Corazones rotos" ("Broken Hearts") with Luis Fonsi (2023)
  • "La Santa" ("The saint") (2023)

Non-album Singles

• "LUNA" ("MOON") (2019)
• "Mala Cara" ("Bad face") (2020)
• "Trendy" with Rvfv as lead (2020)
• "Santería" ("Voodoo") with Danna Paola and Denise Rosenthal (2020)
• "La Tirita" ("The plaster/band-aid") with Belén Aguilera as lead (2020)
• "Discoteka" with María Becerra (2022)

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I don't want any more tropes!:

• Bilingual Bonus: The lyrics to "Subliminal" contain the Chinese greeting 你好 (ni hao), a nod to Lola's previous life in China.
  • It's also common for Lola to put random Chinese words throughout her social media, mainly as teasers.
• Concept Album: First album Akelarre has a witch/sorcery theme all through, right from the title. This theme carries two different meanings: fictional witches represent Lola's spirituality and the supernatural, while witches in the unfortunate, more real-life sense^note in medieval Europe, women who showed too much knowledge were considered a menace and executed for "sorcery" represent the difficulties women face in society. This theme has become further associated to Lola Indigo as a whole.
  • The first song, aptly called "Mujer Bruja" ("witch woman") is the best example of the latter meaning; it is about sexual freedom and how women are chastised for enjoying sex in contrast to men.
  • The second song, "Maldición" ("curse") uses a lot of supernatural elements; it stars Lilith, Adam's first wife created at the same time as him and not from his crib, who descends into hell to have an encounter with The Devil (name-dropped as both Lucifer and Satan). The xanas, female creatures from Asturian mythology, are also mentioned.
• Determinator: Whenever something doesn't work, Mimi doesn't give up and tries something different. Nothing stopped her from finally starting a proper music career after trying for so many years.
• Eek, a Mouse!!: Lola gets visibly scared by a crawling rat at one point in the video for "Autoestima - Remix", set in a real garbage dump.
• Every Year They Fizzle Out: Mimi/Lola Indigo is infamously unable to win any TV contest voted by the viewers. Lots of jokes are made about this and she's totally self-aware.
  • This changed in November 2019, when she won MTV's European Music Award for Best Spanish Act thanks to public vote.
• Female Empowerment Song: All songs from Akelarre are this to some degree, as one part of its witch theme.
• Foreshadowing: A real witch-themed Game Boy handheld is being played by the backup dancers in the music clip for "Mujer Bruja", hinting at the video game-themed last song of album Akelarre, "Game Over", in which the Game Boy is name-dropped.
• Girl Group: Lola Indigo is NOT this, as she has had to explain multiple times: she wants all dancers to have full artistic freedom, so she won't force any of them to stick with her forever. It's very common to see Lola's dancers tackling other projects. Nevertheless, she cares so much for her "Lolas" (Mónica, Claudia, Saydi and Dama Blanca) that they are almost always seen working together and genuinely feel like an actual girl band.
• I Have Many Names: She's known as both Mimi (shortening of birth name Miriam) and Lola Indigo (stage name created in July 2018). Some interviewers also add different variations of these as well as Lola Bunny (which isn't an actual nickname for her), leading her to jokingly beg "please don't give me any more nicknames!".
• Intercourse with You: "El Humo". Before the single was announced, Lola was asked on Twitter what her next song would be about, and she anwered "f*** fumando"^* smoking while f***.
• Love Is a Drug: "Amor Veneno" (literally "poison love") is this in spades.
• Meaningful Name: She chose Lola^note shortening of common Spanish female first name Dolores because it reminds her of powerful women (such as fellow Andalusian singer Lola Flores), and Indigo after the concept of "indigo children".
  • "Akelarre" is a Basque word that essentially means "witch reunion".
• Money Song: "Subliminal", a song about inequality.
• Motor Mouth: The chorus of "Lola Bunny" and Mala Rodríguez's rap in "Mujer Bruja" go very fast and are famously difficult to sing without tripping over your tongue.
• Nipple and Dimed: In the music video for "Ya No Quiero Ná" and a few other appearances, Lola is seen wearing a "Free the nipple" bra top, the one she's wearing on the page image.
• The Oner: The music video for the remix of "Autoestima" is one long, uncut shot of Lola and the boys of Cupido roaming around a garbage dump full of toys. The only cut is at the end, when night falls.
• Precision F-Strike: "Lola Bunny" has this line: "No estoy pegá, yo soy el puto pegamento"^* roughly "I don't [merely] stick, I am the fucking glue".
• Rearrange the Song: "Ya No Quiero Ná" has a remix featuring Panamanian Joey Montana and Jamaican Charly Black, and Lola herself featured in remixes of two other songs: "Borracha" and "Autoestima".
• The Runner-Up Takes It All: Mimi ended up growing into one of the most commercially successful acts of the Operación Triunfo class of 2017, in spite of coming in last on the show.
• Satan: Mentioned in multiple ways in "Maldición" as well as "Inocente".
• Self-Deprecation: Lola doesn't mind joking about her bad history with TV talent shows.
• Sequel Song: "Maldición" directly follows "Mujer Bruja", the former starting exactly like the latter ends.
• Shout-Out: Lots of them:
  • In the chorus of "Lola Bunny", two famous couples are referenced: the titular cartoon rabbit and Bugs Bunny and then Bonnie and Clyde.
  • In "Subliminal", co-singer Maikel Delacalle name-drops fellow rappers Iggy Azalea and The Notorious B.I.G., as well as parkour team Yamakasi.
  • "No Se Toca" contains subtle references to the various TV talent shows Mimi took part in: "fama", shortened name of the talent show for dancers; "lo malo", which is the name of a very famous song also spawned from the 2017 season of Operación Triunfo; and "tu cara no me suena".
  • "Game Over" is appropriately full of gaming references and name-drops, such as Peach and Mario ("a esta princesa Mario nunca rescató"^* this princess, Mario never rescued), Nintendo and 1990's consoles Game Boy and PlayStation. And in the music clip for "Mujer Bruja", the backup dancers can be seen playing with a real Game Boy.
    • Lola is a declared 90's gamer, having got the PlayStation console and played famous games from that era like Spyro the Dragon, Tomb Raider I and Crash Bandicoot. According to the lyrics of "Game Over", however, she's more Nintendo.
  • Also in "Lola Bunny", the line with the Precision F-Strike references an early song by Pimp Flaco of Spanish Boy Band Cupido, who Lola collaborated with for their song "Autoestima" (even featuring in the remix).
• Singer Namedrop: Lalo Ebratt's following line in "Maldición": "Tú eres^* you are Lola, yo^* me's L-A-L-O".
• Spell My Name With An S: Her name is sometimes written as "Lola Índigo", with an accent on the first I as in Spanish. The pronunciation is pretty much the same in both Spanish and English, anyway.
• Where It All Began: Almost nine years after being a contestant, Lola returned to talent show for dancers Fama, a bailar as a trainer/adviser, as well as providing that season's theme song "Fuerte".
• A Wild Rapper Appears!: Mala Rodríguez in "Mujer Bruja".