Maybe I Lost My Mind
The song appears on indie band’s latest album, Submarines
The Marías were feeling profoundly devoid of connection on their latest single, “No One Noticed,” so they set off in search of something to fill the space with a somber performance of the record on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.
“Come on, don’t leave mе, it can’t be that easy, babe/If you believe me, I guess I’ll get on a plane,” María Zardoya pleads into the microphone, standing on a platform positioned under deep blue lights. “Fly to your city excited to see your face/Hold me, console me, and then I’ll leave without a trace.”
“No One Noticed” appears on the Marías’ latest album, Submarines, which arrived this past May. “I started writing it at a time when I felt like I was competing with technology for attention and affection and love,” Zardoya said of the record during the band’s NPR Tiny Desk performance last year. “I felt kind of invisible. We spend so much of our time on our phones and on our devices and we kind of forget about the people that are in the room with us. We forget about ourselves, and we forget about our environment.”
In conversation with Finneas for Rolling Stone‘s Musicians on Musicians en Español, Zardoya further discussed this craving for tangible connection. It’s often absent through technology, but she’s been able to find it through intimate live performances.
“I love the small venues. Like the first venue where Josh and I met, I was playing at the Kibitz Room, which is this really tiny place right next to Canter’s Deli. There were probably five people in the audience,” she said. “So, I’m kind of used to playing really, really small venues and I like it. They’re intimate. Even to this day, we are playing bigger venues, but I’m always asking our team ‘Can we do small venues?’ because I like to crowdsurf, I like to just get into the audience and be able to touch them, hold their hand, hug them if I want to hug them, or just jump off stage if I want to.”