Rosalía: Here’s What to Expect From Her Fourth Album
In a recent cover with Highsnobiety, Spanish pop star Rosalía (here is the review of her last Italian concert), interviewed for the occasion, revealed that she is currently working on the follow-up to her Latin Grammy Award-winning album, “Motomami” 2022. A very successful album that allowed her to take flight, definitively, even on an international level. “It was a particular process – she explained – I changed a lot, but at the same time, I’m still trying to figure out the same things. It’s like I still have the same questions and the same desire to answer them. I still have the same love for the past and the same curiosity for the future.“. He also openly talked about where he got his “Motomami” aesthetic from, citing his parents and their motorcyclist background, an important source of inspiration.
“I think what attracted me the most were the motorcycle helmets that I immortalized on the album cover, in the videos and in the shows – he continued – I wanted to use all that was motorcycle gear and accessories to create the ‘Motomami’ looksand it’s something very personal for me because it’s my father and my mother are motorcyclists, and that’s what I grew up with and what I’ve had since I was very little.” Her career has had several peaks and these milestones have led her to make several reflections: as “Despecha” reached one billion streams on Spotify, making her the first Spanish artist to achieve the feat, she wrote in a caption on social media: “I hope that life will allow me to share many more songs with you. For now, I’m still working on the new album and I can only say that the wait will be worth it.” She has also been the protagonist of two new singles: last November, She and Björk collaborated on the eco-friendly track “Opal”in hopes of raising awareness of the cruelty and negative consequences of open-air salmon farming. Last month, the Catalan also collaborated with Blackpink’s Lisa for the electro-pop song “New Woman”The two also released an accompanying music video directed by renowned director Dave Meyers.
In 2022, Nme gave “Motomami” full marks, stating that it was “40 minutes of the most emotional, forward-thinking, and disconcerting music we’re likely to hear this year.”. We at Rokol also awarded her a very high rating: a nine. In “Motomami”, this is the title of the singer’s new album, there is bachata, but not only. The common thread that links the sixteen pieces which make up the tracklist of the ideal successor to “El mar querer” – winner of a Latin Grammy Award for “Album of the Year” and a Grammy Award for “Best Latin Rock, Urban or Alternative Album”, among other awards – It is a rediscovery of the musical tradition in which and with which Rosalía grew up, who not by chance defined “Motomami” a “love letter” to the music she loves. The album is full of quotes from small, great masterpieces of Latin musical culture. But it also contains their evolution. From her fourth album, we can expect a continuation of this process: the recovery of the past with an eye to the future, Rosalía is capable of take tradition by the hand and lead it towards dizzying and contemporary panoramas.
