Rosalía (Post-Flamenco Art-Pop From Spain)

Madre mia rosalia bajale

I like “Aute Cuture” a lot. Fully expecting the third single to be called “Costa Azul/Côte d’Azur” or something.

More a fan of Los Angeles and the more overtly Flamenco than where she's headed, but keeping an open mind.

Long way from covering "I See A Darkness"!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fg7GJghu4Zo

Man I love that cover

Is "Aute Culture" produced by Pharrell ?
It really sounds like it is !
I don't really hear anything Flamenco (or Post Flamenco) but it's nice.

she's still working with El Guincho

There are Pharrell songs apparently but this isn’t one of them. This particular song has been around for a while and could’ve gone on the album, I guess, but it didn’t really fit with its narrative which is I suspect why she waited until now to put it out

I find it effortless, like she wrote it in her sleep, and it goes like a flash, but it's good.
I was with my girlfriend/wife buying Aubade lingerie (on sales) and Con Altura was playing. Close enough, could have been (h)aute c(o)uture.

just saw her at primavera sound in porto and yes, she's a genius.

Sounds great! Seeing her at Roskilde in about a month, very much looking forward to it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=60&v=eQCpjOBJ5UQ

oop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQCpjOBJ5UQ

Good track but it's no Aute Cuture!

I like that this one is sung in Catalan. Might be a while since a song in Catalan is heard and talked about outside of Spain.

I also like how the first half is filled with brags about the luxury and the things she can afford now a la “7 rings” vs the second half of the song condemning it: “God deliver us from money, when we have it.”

Makes the song more interesting than it has any right to be.

She was pretty fucking amazing last night at Roskilde. Six star reviews all over. Her final four songs included Con Altura, Aute Cuture and Malamente. She has quite the catalogue already.

Glastonbury set was incredible as well - fourth on the bill on the fourth stage but it felt like we were watching the headliner. Initially I thought her voice might be quite weak live but hell no.

I didn't realise she had people to either side of her doing the handclaps throughout and the rhythms were even harder to pin down live.

Geez, she comes to Bern next (where I work) but to do a stupid teenage festival where you pay 120 dollars for a day pass. Hurts me.

New songs are not wowing me

I went back tho& listened to the older stuff and I get The buzz tho. This def feels like retroactive props for stuff that was missed the first time

By the press I mean obv ilx was on it 👁

So far, after the little I’ve heard, I’m surprised by the hype/genius thing. I’m willing to get excited by something new though so I’ll keep listening !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2j3x0VYnehg

Perfect Rosalíaggaeton.

the (extremely wrong) criticisms of "con altura" upthread kind of apply to this for me

it's all right tho

low key but romantic

def a full-throated foray into urbana this time, which isn't really what i look for in rosalia, but the hook has been in my head all day.

and it's way better if you watch the video

love it

I have zero problems with this crass pandering manoeuvre

the little hum at the end of the yo x ti chorus is soooo good

ozuna is a good foil for her on this song too, his voice is so boyish

Rosalía is great at ASMR. I think this should be interesting to watch even if you're not an ASMR devotee as she relates almost all of it to her music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tcXP2Jk5Cw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zwpwbdGNIk

That’s dope

New song “Juro Que” is a return to flamenco:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtym36PG6R8

quite dramatic

The “narrative” didn’t really go where I thought it would go...

there's a trip-hoppy new single, "Dolerme"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuUa9ZQL28w

not sure what I think of it...feels pretty album-track-ish?

Just listened, I like it

tbf very little pop music is working for me right now, will have to revisit TBD

I like the verses and small experimentations but wish there was less autotune on the chorus.

^ i had listened to that song when posted here and liked it. felt like rushed recorded though. then it just came up in some radio station days ago, and brutally kicked in like its an eloquentely accomplished song. it is. i love all of the tough read Dolerme is, and the way she creaks and wavers and punches here. all verses are pure gold

Dolerme still hasn't clicked for me, but I do dig this twitchy new one with Travis Scott, "TKN":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5xIoeG4uVI

^cool song/video

her song with billie eilish is incredible

I was so into her a few years ago, and feel like it all peaked with "Aute Cuture" (still an awesome track). nothing since has really caught my ear. I also watched a longform TV performance, and it was... not very good? (I know you have to take televised concerts with a grain of salt, but...)

(I also acknowledge we're talking about a lot of one-offs and collabs, and maybe her next album will be hot stuff)

i was kinda expecting an album to emerge out of all those singles, and hoping that it might recontextualise some of the lesser post-"aute cuture" singles, but that hasn't happened yet

hopefully when she gets around to a proper next album she'll be back to her peak

her 2019 run was still pretty great even if it wasn't all as strong as "con altura" and "aute cuture", it's only really last year that i started to feel a bit more disappointed

yeah as far as el guincho productions go, at the moment for me it's friendship ended with rosalía, now lous and the yakuza is my best friend

I haven't heard anything by her I like nearly as much as the first two songs posted in this thread.