Exclusive Interview With Adriana Spuria

July 01, 2025

Exclusive Interview With Adriana Spuria

Having crossed genres and decades, Adriana Spuria has always walked her own path—with sincerity, sound experimentation, and uncompromising independent artistry. Her latest single, "Stone", released on June 20, 2025, may be her most haunting to date. Written, composed, performed, and produced by Spuria alone under her label La Fabbrika, "Stone" is a poetic plea against emotional numbness and the isolation that can follow trauma. Through haunting lyrics and a cinematic black-and-white aesthetic, Spuria delves into the conflict between shutting ourselves off and remaining available to connection, even when the world seems cold and unforgiving.

We spoke with Adriana to discuss the nature of "Stone", the creative process behind the track, the symbolism in her imagery, and what it means to be a woman who does it all in the music industry today.

1. "Stone" is lyrically and visually intense—what was the initial point of inspiration, and how did the song progress from there on September 5, 2024? The emotional center of the song is so direct—did it emerge from a personal experience, a singular event, or a broader social commentary?

As often happens during the composition phase, I take up the guitar, play and play until I find a chord progression that inspires a melody, which is then supported by a provisional text, an unfinished text that at that moment does not distract me too much from finding a melody that tells exactly what I have in my soul. Then, once the structure, verse, bridge, chorus etc. have been set, the definitive text arrives. The text actually writes itself, just like the music.

I'll explain, this is my perception, that is, that I am the means through which these ethereal realities (the songs) are incarnated in me, becoming in some way corporeal. But I don't want to dwell further on elements of songwriting and the metaphysics of creativity, I just wanted to talk to you about my personal creative process.

Stone is a song that tells of my solitude, which over time I have recognized as a precious resource, and how feeling alone is just an internal condition that is independent of the number of people around me. At the same time, Stone embraces the loneliness of discomfort and suffering as a broader, social problem, and this embrace, which brings me back to my human essence, is the solution to loneliness.

2. The line "you never feel alone when you're alone, if the pain has never turned your heart to stone" is chilling. How did you come up with that line, and what does it translate to in your own emotional vocabulary?

Thank you for appreciating the verse. It came out naturally while I was visualizing the concept
It ties in with what I answered you previously, if you don't harden yourself you don't feel alone even when you are. Being able to not give in to the temptation of drying up, of self-isolation, but maintaining empathy and humanity in this current world.

And it is a revolutionary work, it is called human revolution, a daily training in which we decide whether to let the light or the darkness win inside us. Fighting with suffering and emerging victorious by saying to ourselves, despite everything I am happy to live and I want to continue to feel the connection with other human beings. I have been practicing Buddhism for 32 years and I learned to put all this into practice thanks to my mentor Daisaku Ikeda.

3. In the video, we see motifs of loneliness, empathy, and even disdain embodied in different characters. Did you see the lighthouse and the black-and-white imagery as metaphors for something beneath the surface of our emotional or cultural psyche today?

Yes exactly. Just as I was writing the verse "Every night I walk back to my home" I was imagining what was then the clip of the video, a man and a woman who return home and their home is a lighthouse, a place of extreme solitude and isolation, but it doesn't matter, in fact it can even be beautiful and fascinating if it is not '"like hiding your head deep in the sand" that is, not being able to face reality. Yes, the scene of social contempt is the extreme manifestation of the hardening of the heart, of the total lack of empathy.

4. You composed, recorded, performed, and released this track yourself under your own label, La Fabbrika. That is not only creative control—that is complete ownership. Was that a liberating process, or were there unforeseen drawbacks?

It is certainly the most beautiful and free way to work even when the means are very limited. But at the same time it is a beautiful assumption of responsibility and seriousness in a job that is often not respected as it should be.

There are always obstacles in every production and for us independents numerous difficulties.

5. There's something so urgently pressing about Stone—this insistence on resisting emotional numbness. Do you think society is becoming more desensitized today? And where do you think music comes in to halt that trend?

Our society is currently one step beyond becoming insensitive, it tends to artificialize the emotional zone, try to even think about the madness of creating poems and songs with artificial intelligence. A madness convenient for those who just want to monetize without effort, without scruples and without ethics. All culture and art, if not delegated to an electronic machine, will have a fundamental role for our future, as the ultimate expressions of the human heart.

6. Your career and your lyrics both demonstrate a sort of artistic tenacity. As a female artist, particularly one working in both mainstream and independent paths, what have been your greatest struggles—and triumphs?

This time the answer will be short. My greatest difficulty was and is being a woman who does self-production in a serious and professional way and my greatest triumph was and is continuing to do what I do without giving up despite everything being a woman.

7. You've gone from folk and jazz to dance and now into this dark alt-pop/indie rock terrain, your trajectory is fascinating. Do you see Stone as a culmination of those influences—or a starting point?

Neither, Stone is simply another moment of creativity that chose that sound there.

8. Lastly, if someone is listening to Stone alone, with headphones, late at night—what do you want them to feel when the song is over? What do you want them to carry around in their heart afterward?

This is a very poetic question and I thank you for asking it. In the meantime, it is nice to imagine a person listening to Stone late at night, perhaps admiring a slice of the moon... I would like him to feel embraced, regenerated and full of hope.