CosmoGIRL! Grooves with Enrique Iglesias

from CosmoGIRL! December 2001/January 2002

By Deborah Baer

Okay, he cursed enough to give our interview an NC-17 rating, but we bleeped 'em out so our moms wouldn't disown us.

Bailamos! Let the rhythm take you over, bailamos! Te quiero, la la la la la la la la. Oh. . . sorry. It's just that Enrique Iglesias's songs are the kind that you belt out at the top of your lungs in the shower. His soulful lyrics in "Be With You," and his latest, "Hero," off his new album, Escape, just ooze romance. But the real Enrique? When we got Mr. Rump Shaker on the phone, we found out that the sensual guy is really just a mischievous 11-year-old boy stuck in a 26-year-old's body!

CG!: We love your first single, "Hero"!
Enrique: I bet that's what you tell every artist you talk to!

CG!: That's not true. If we don't like it, we don't say anything! But enough about other artists--let's talk about you. What was it like the first time you sang for an audience, after you got your record deal?
Enrique: I s**t.

CG!: You didn't give a s**t?
Enrique: No, I took a s**t!

CG!: What?
I said, I took a s**t. I was scared s***less.

CG!: Okay, we get it. We thought you meant...too much information! Is getting up onstage still hard for you?
Enrique: Hard?

CG!: Well, you know, you said you took a s**t before...
Enrique: Well, you always get nervous. But it's never that kind of nervous you felt the first time.... The first time was more like I said, taking a s**t. Sorry I keep saying that. After that, you get butterflies in your stomach. And it kinda sucks to sing when you're nervous because your voice is all ahhhhh [sings in a really high warble], you know?

CG!: Well, you don't sound like that on your new CD, Escape. How did you pick that album title?
Enrique: I wish I could give you a whole story, like, yeah, I've "escaped", but I'm not gonna bulls**t you. It was a cool title, musically, I think. It goes with the music.

CG!: There's a song on your album called "I Will Survive." Is that a remake of Gloria Gaynor's disco song?
Enrique: No, it's not. Don't worry, I'm not that stupid! It kinda talks about that stuff though, you know? Because you hear all these girls on TV singing and male-bashing. But you know what? It happens the other way around, too. I mean, guys suffer. Maybe not as much. But they do. There's always a girls out there that breaks their heart.

CG!: How long does it take you to get over a breakup?
Enrique: About two hours. No, I'm kidding. It depends. The longest was about a month. Is that bad?

CG!: Uh, that sounds pretty fast to us. How do you do it?
Enrique: You know how you get over it? You meet someone else! Which is easier now than it was before. Easier than it was when I wasn't a singer. That's kinda sad, eh? It's funny how life turns around because all those cool guys that all the girls liked [in high school] are not doing much right now. One of them parked my car the other day. One of those cool guys. Not that parking cars is bad...everything's cool to me.

CG!: Everything's cool? What a down-to-earch way to be.
Enrique: Thanks. It's because I'm lying in the bathtub.

CG!: What?! Right now?
Enrique: Yeah, I am... not with water. There's a lot of people in the other room so I got in the bathtub to talk.

CG!: We're having a fantasy boyfriend moment here.



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