Rosalía (Post-Flamenco Art-Pop From Spain)

^ 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.

oh I agree about her last few singles being less fascinatingly good, but her vocal on the duet with Billie Eilish I bumped the thread for is fantastic. she’s good on the “Blinding Lights” remix as well. very much looking forward to her new stuff.

new song w/ dominican dembow artist tokischa is fantastic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmmTz3W-JO0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLoGsDDn4w0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-CEd6xrRQc

alright but weird lead single choice

“ft The Weeknd” has a certain dampening effect on my vibe

When I look at the brilliant work she was doing in 2017/2018, and then I look at everything she's done in the last three years, it's hard to believe it's the same person. Really dispiriting.

her 2019 output was good, just diminishing returns since then though

lmao someone hoovering coke in the first 10 seconds THE WEEKND IS HERE

yeah her run of singles in 2019 was as good or better than a lot of 'el mal qurer' imo, but since then she's really leaned into doing music w/ super famous ppl and it has been pretty bad. tho the song w/ toksicha is pretty great i think. this new song w/ the weeknd isn't bad exactly just kinda boring

querer*

You folks like pop that plays by the rules (whether in English or Spanish) a lot more than I do. Nothing she's done since El Mal Querer has been as weird or deliberately off-putting as that album. It's all been coloring inside the lines, stuff that seems calculatedly aimed at radio. Which is fine, get that money. But the videos that made me start this thread were amazing and her last three years of output have been...not amazing.

I’m hardly pop-averse (spoiler alert), and “Aute Cuture” is one of my favorite songs of the past few years… but I agree she seemed kind of visionary at first, and now not so much.

i think "con altura", "aute culture," "yo x ti, tu x mi" carried on the thread of 'el mal querer' while making broadly more appealing music & music that just overall had a different artistic aim to it. & i don't mean, or think, that she simply made music to get more rich and famous, i think she is a fan of mainstream latin music, stuff that is prob club/party music in her world, and she wanted to make that kind of music. i thought those songs brought her sound out from under the shadow of flamenco (prob inevitable if not necessary) while still being percussive & frenetic in the same way as "malamente" etc were. the thread connected to me. it was clear she was trying to become a global pop star but the songs felt true to the overall project that is her art, imo. i think she's lost that thread since then in ways that are pretty obvious.

also i don't think 'el mal querer' is that weird. it's unique & singular, but weird? i can't get there. it always felt like pop music to me -- the videos telegraph this openly, and it was hugely popular music in spain -- just a very fresh take on it

That video with The Weeknd is really bad

j0rdan otm

I loved "Con Altura" but generally agree with the comments. In a way her arc reminds me of...The Weeknd's...

The Weeknd can die and I don't really like the song, but her vocals and the idea of a Bachata pop song are very fine with me. I am keeping my hopes up for a solid release. She should have remembered James Blake, or Billie Eilish, or Bad Bunny. Someone who actually speaks Spanish for example.

Well she did a Spanish-language track with Billie earlier this year…

she also did a duet with bad bunny on his last album (they performed it on snl)

That's what I meant by "remember", I meant return the favor.

she’s still in the audience-expanding phase of her career. I’m when she works with the weeknd, she’s not the one doing the favor

*superfluous “i'm”

does Hentai mean something else here or

Las personas q os está molestando la letra de Hentai estáis bien??

— R O S A L Í A (@rosalia) January 16, 2022

Looks like it's a track on the upcoming album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFJ4RHibjVw

Rosalia, have you considered naming it.... something else

that’s gonna be a jump the shark from me, dawg

It's totally different from where she is now, but I'm surprised her cover of "I See A Darkness" isn't better known:

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

that’s gonna be a jump the shark from me, dawg
― Rockin’, and rollin’, and whatnot (morrisp), Monday, January 17, 2022 3:38 AM (seven hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Or a ride the chairlift

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6o7bCAZSxsg

took me a few listens to digest this one but i like it a lot

Yeah, I like this new song better than any of the other singles she's put out.

The instrumental slays, I'm not sure of her vocals yet. Nicely shot too.

too short and maybe slightly undercooked but wow what a sound!

this is the most compelling she's been in a while, i wish it was longer

"slightly undercooked" is right though

iirc it's the intro to the album, could explain the brevity.

yeah. odd one to shoot a video for but it feels more like a teaser of sorts in the context of the pre release strategy

rest of the album won't have songs that are that much longer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motomami

she’s flowing on this one lol, all the reggaeton collabs have rubbed off

She’s dating Rauw Alejandro now , who says, of course, her new album is great in his Rolling Stone cover story. No collaborations between the 2 of them on the album though

really not feeling this (but I guess it's not my kind of thing):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OG4gq9fCoRE