Khe Calor will always be a special project to me because it was the first time I felt like I could fully unleash my creative vision without holding anything back.

Danna first played me the song in Los Angeles, the day after New Year’s in 2025. The second I heard it, my mind went everywhere. I knew the song had so much potential, but what pulled me in the most was the nostalgia behind it. It felt playful and fresh, yet somehow connected to another time.

When we decided in March that Khe Calor would become the first single of Danna’s new era, I immediately started searching for the right director someone who could help me build a world that felt as fresh and unexpected as the song itself.

Then, during one of my usual Instagram scrolling sessions, I came across a Rebecca Black music video. Yes, the Rebecca Black—the “Friday, Friday” icon who became the internet’s ultimate cringe meme while I was in high school. Now it was 2025, she was making her musical comeback, and the video completely blew my mind. It was colorful, funny, self-aware and genuinely cool. It had exactly the kind of satirical pop humor I wanted to bring into Danna’s world.

That is how I discovered Olivia de Camps.

I sent her a DM, she replied almost immediately, and the rest is history. Olivia is now one of my closest friends, but it all started with one question:

What if we brought Danna back into the world of telenovelas?

At the time, there was already a huge online conversation around people wanting to see Danna play a telenovela villain in a future remake. We decided to take that desire and create our own universe within the larger Danna universe.

Instead of parodying classic telenovelas, we wanted to celebrate them. That world already felt deeply connected to her story. As explored in Childstar, Danna grew up acting in telenovelas, so returning to that visual language felt nostalgic, personal and completely authentic to her.

But obviously, we had to make it irreverently pop.

We created a town that had been cursed with a drought for 777 days. The heat is unbearable, the people are desperate and Danna is the only person capable of breaking the spell. The problem is that, after refusing to let another man control or consume her, she becomes the villain of the story. Her emotional walls have left the entire town trapped in an eternal heat wave.

It is dramatic. It is ridiculous. It is romantic. It is very telenovela. And it is extremely Danna.

We filmed the video at a hacienda near Pachuca, outside Mexico City, using every corner and resource the location gave us to create the production value seen on screen.

Shooting on 18mm film was a shared obsession between Olivia, Danna and me because honestly, nothing looks or feels quite as beautiful as real film.

Khe Calor became the perfect collision of nostalgia, camp, melodrama and modern pop. More than anything, it was the project where I felt my ideas could become an entire world.