This is a common rule of music journalism: dont ask to artists on relevant matters your private life, unless it’s relevant to understanding his work. But is this what he really wants? You might think he’s here to talk about his album, in all his seriousness and violent rictus, and then you see him. I play fame and marujeo It’s more obvious when it comes time for the red carpet and prime time television.
Yes in one interview with When Rosalía releases an album and you ask her about her boyfriends, she’ll probably answer: evasions, grumblings or accusations of sensationalism. Although it is imaginable, I have not tried it. However He wants it alland for now it works: it allows us to raise our eyebrows as a striking avant-garde creator and at the same time dominate the most ordinary ‘entertainment’. Your change Poisonous rhymes with Rauw AlejandroIt was scheduled to continue at the Latin Grammys last night feeding the soap opera. But we are talking about an artist who chose Pablo Motos’ offer among all the interview offers piled up on his desk.
With Not talking about Shakira, he already has at least five songs airing intimate rags (and pointing at her ex, her ex’s current partner, her father, and her mother) and gave it some more bait last night with her quotes and scenes with her brood. It’s about nurturing a story, a social conversation in which music plays a supporting role. Is it a certain press that promotes diseases? There is mutual feedingBut more and more, it is the artist who creates this cycle that stimulates non-musical passions.
Now there needs to be a story behind the news, or rather in front of it. It’s in the ‘mainstream’ but not just there. Music does not show itself to attract attention. We see it on TV and it only emerges when mixed with other ingredients (competitiveness, personal development, geography, cooking) and we notice it in the way many creators approach their work. introductory narrative.
Albums in which the thematic background comes to the fore and even the plot of intimate life is published: metal diseases, anorexia, toxic love stories… Yes, these are all part of the creator’s universe and it is a human thing to be interested in a work of this kind, but I miss focusing a little more on the music itself, its essence. Language and its internal logic. This is the price the artist pays to remain on everyone’s lips, and as we see, he does it with pleasure.