Leire Martínez has grown tired of answering questions everywhere about her departure from La Oreja de Van Gogh. If “Your Name” already clearly hinted at that breakup by leaning on metaphor, her new business move is far less coy: starring in a Braun commercial that parodies the cover of “What I Told You While You Pretended to Sleep.”
In the advert, Leire appears lying in a bed surrounded by flowers and speaks about how good it felt to start “going on her own,” i.e., going her own way. The slogan, “When you start going your own way, everything gets better,” leaves no room for doubt, and the recreation of the cover does not either.
The situation is ironic because La Oreja is currently performing in Madrid with Amaia Montero. According to several attendees at the concert, in a totally surreal moment, promotional Braun hand fans featuring Leire were handed out during the show. What a ridiculous idea. Who could have thought of that?
So strong!!!!!! Being at La Oreja de Van Gogh’s concert and this being handed out… It’s surreal pic.twitter.com/AG0WMoTPFn
— Criselola (@Criselola94) September 22, 2026
To top it off, Amaia has altered the lyrics of “El último vals” during the Madrid show, and many believe she did it to respond to Leire and to vent her frustration at the constant allusions and back-and-forth. In the section of “When everything ends,” she adds, “and end already, please.” Amaia, however, has not stated that she was referring to her.
Amaia Montero edits the lyrics of “The Last Waltz” in Madrid to add what seems to be a jab at Leire Martínez: “When everything ends, and that it ends already, please.”
pic.twitter.com/7sFPo5DJhE— navepop (@navepop) September 22, 2026
Reactions on social media, as one might expect, are quite divided. Among the criticisms there are those who separate respect for Amaia as an artist from her conduct in all this, arguing that the singer hasn’t been particularly professional. Another points to the gender dimension of the whole story: “Again two women facing off in the artistic sphere and the rest of the members of LODVG (all men) say nothing. They stay silent and pretend not to hear.”
There are also voices who think we’re seeing ghosts where there are none. “What does that line have to do with Leire? Amaia doesn’t even mention her; stop making things up,” writes another user. And there are those who believe Leire shouldn’t be surprised that questions resurface after such a campaign. “If you run an ad campaign parodying La Oreja de Van Gogh and then throw indirects, you can’t go around behaving all dignified when people ask you about it,” tweets another commenter.
Leire herself had already tried to end the discussion. This week, when asked about Amaia’s return to the stage with La Oreja, she avoided commenting “out of respect” and said she didn’t understand “this insistence on topics that I think have nothing more to say.”
Of course, while the world continues to pit two women against each other, who are the public faces of La Oreja, no one talks about the guys in the band. Haritz, Pablo, Xabi, and Álvaro are still there, but as if invisible.
