María Bonilla is 20 years old, studies Art History at the University of Zaragoza, and has just managed for a song inspired by pop from the 1960s to become one of the musical phenomena of the past few weeks on TikTok. Her single “Something of Interest,” published on October 23, has been used in more than 3,000 videos on the platform and has reached content creators, sports teams, and music groups that have helped expand its reach.
At a time when much of the musical trends on social media are linked to urban pop and electronic music, Bonilla has opted for a melody that calls to mind Marisol and the French singer Françoise Hardy, with arrangements and an aesthetic inspired by the decade of the sixties.
The reception has even surprised the artist herself. In an interview with Aragón Digital, she admitted that she did not expect such an answer: "I'm receiving so much support that I absolutely didn't expect." Just four days after the release, the song had already accumulated nearly half a million views on TikTok.
How her musical career began
The singer was born in Zaragoza and began to take an interest in music during her childhood, influenced especially by the records she listened to at home. At ten years old she started playing the Spanish guitar, although she gave up the classes shortly after because she couldn't quite find the instrument appealing.
Her relationship with music changed at fifteen, when she decided to learn electric guitar out of admiration for the British group Status Quo. In 2021 she began writing her own songs with acoustic guitar and, since then, she has composed more than sixty tracks.
Her musical training has been fundamentally self-taught. Although she received some months of guitar classes, she learned to compose and develop her style on her own, combining very different influences. Among her reference artists are The Beatles, Bon Jovi, Robbie Williams, Frank Sinatra, and Erik Satie.
In January 2026 she published "Masterplan", her first album, made up of ten songs written entirely in English and recorded in a studio at La Cafetería Atómica, in the Zaragoza neighborhood of Las Fuentes.
The album allowed her to begin presenting her music live and to develop a career in the local scene. Before the success of "Algo de interés", she had already received the Best Young Proposal Award from the Popyrock event and had performed in venues in Zaragoza and Madrid.
Bonilla currently combines her university studies with songwriting and musical performances.
The song that has turned her into a viral phenomenon
Although she had been composing for several years, the song that has multiplied her popularity is precisely the first one she has published in Spanish. Until then, Bonilla had preferred to write in English, a language with which she said she felt freer creatively.
The composition of "Algo de interés" was also different from that of her previous work. As she explained to Aragón Digital, she started writing it at the end of May and wasn't able to finish it until mid-August, after several weeks of trying to adjust the lyrics and the chords.
"It is the song that has given me the most headaches," she acknowledged.
The result is a melodic pop track with references to the ye-ye sound of the sixties. Its chorus has made it easier for TikTok users to incorporate it into humorous videos, dances, and posts of all kinds.
The song has surpassed 3,000 videos created with its audio on TikTok, a figure that reflects its reach beyond the followers that Bonilla had before the release.
Its popularity has also reached YouTube, where the music video was surpassing 15,000 views at the beginning of November, and other social networks in which users and artists have shared snippets of the composition.
AuronPlay, Real Valladolid, and the rugby team are added to the song
The impact of "Algo de interés" has grown especially due to its use in accounts with large audiences. Among those who have reacted to the song is AuronPlay, one of the Spanish content creators with the highest following, who described it as "beautiful".
The influencer Clers, who brings together around three million followers, has also published a video dancing to the rhythm of the song.
The success has also crossed beyond the strictly musical sphere. The Real Valladolid used the audio to make a humorous post about its footballer Miguel Rubio, while the Spanish rugby team shared a video accompanied by a message about the song: "In a loop, we don't get it out of our heads".
The artist has also received congratulations from Spanish groups such as Taburete and Malmö 040, which have publicly recognized her work.
These reactions have allowed a song released by an artist still not very well known to reach very different audiences, including sports fans and content creators who may not necessarily have listened to her previous work.
However, the number of videos that use the audio does not correspond to the number of musical streams, nor does it, by itself, make it possible to know the income generated by the single.
Henri Matisse and a seventies film
María Bonilla's relationship with Art History also appears in her musical proposal. The music video for "Algo de interés" has as one of its leading protagonists the French painter Henri Matisse, portrayed by actor Paco Ortega.
The story imagines a meeting between the artist and the singer in the present day, with a staging that combines cultural references and a retro aesthetic. The video was recorded in Zaragoza, in places such as the Water and Environment Documentation Center and the Matisse café.
The composition also incorporates cinematic references. Bonilla has explained that some verses are inspired by the film "Un loco anda suelto", directed by Carl Reiner and released in 1979.
The combination of music, cinema, and painting is part of an artistic proposal that was already present in her previous works, although the new single has achieved a considerably greater reach.
Success also comes at a time when the artist begins to consolidate her presence live. Bonilla has plans to perform next November 28 at the Creedence hall in Zaragoza, an opportunity to check how the popularity of her song translates into concert attendance.