US EditionCritique of ‘Lux’: Rosalia Breaks the Seams of Pop with an Intense and Fascinating Jump Into the Void
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These two things no one saw coming: the conversion of Rosalia from arrabalera motomami to immaculate nun, and that half the planet is listening at this moment to the exalted violins of the London Symphony Orchestra, the sound architect on which Lux ascends.
«It will be a rock record but with the grandeur of opera and classical music. I want to combine styles, mix languages !». Does the phrase sound to you? That’s what Freddie Mercury said fifty years ago to the executives of his label explaining what he was going to do on Queen’s new album. If we switch “rock” to “pop”, we have what Rosalía has done exactly half a century later. ‘Lux’ is not his ‘A Night at the Opera’ or ‘Berghain’ his ‘Bohemian Rh…
Lux is a work consistent with the personality and creativity of its author, that is, a career characterized by criteria, the search and the ignorance of limits through music. He already did it with the Evil wanting to pair the flamenco tradition with various pop genres, and then with Motomami, where he hurried in femininity through the carelessness and reggaeton and Caribbean rhythms.Keep reading...
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