US EditionRosalía’s 'Lux' Redefines What a Pop Album Can Be
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She had an epiphany, once polygonera, reguetonera, queen of world pop in Spanish, collector of adventure lovers for whom her fans would break the shirt, of Raw Alejandro, to whom she dedicates a song, «Pearl», in which the most beautiful thing she calls is «goat», to Jeremy Allen White, that good guy in briefs of Cakvin Klein. Now she embraces female mysticism and sexual abstinence. Has Rosalía become Maria Ostiz or Sister Citroën? Or to put it …
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...
On Lux, the Catalan singer, Rosalía, signs her most daring work: a monumental album in which opera, flamenco and electronics mix together. Between chaos and prayer, Rosalía delivers an upsetting spiritual quest that redefines contemporary pop. Recently, during a live TikTok, Rosalía was filmed at the wheel of his car, running at all speed [...] This article Rosalía transcends pop with Lux est apparu en premier sur Rolling Stone.
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