Saturday

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Lorde HENTAI cover from yesterday:

Saturday

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An artist’s first press cycle can calcify a life, particularly if the musician is a young woman with interests that fall outside of societal expectations. Very quickly, the story of Rosalía Vila Tobella coalesced into the myth of Rosalía. She was born in Sant Cugat del Vallès, a town north of Barcelona. When she was seven, she sang for her family and brought them to tears. At nine she started learning how to play guitar, and fell in love with flamenco at 13. She studied at the Catalonia College of Music in a program that typically accepts one student a year. She played local tablaos, as the bars and restaurants in Spain where flamenco singers and dancers perform are known, sometimes getting paid only with a free dinner. She released a debut album, Los Ángeles, which was straightforward flamenco, just a guitar and her voice. Success soon followed: the critically acclaimed El Mal Querer, based on a 13th-century novel, and a role in Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar’s 2019 film, Pain and Glory. All this set her up as a Very Serious Artist with Very Serious Intentions. It wasn’t hard to imagine what would come next. There is quite a bit of reggaeton in Motomami’s sonic landscape, along with bachata, a little dembow, and even a cover of “Delirio de Grandeza,” a 1968 bolero by the Cuban singer Justo Betancourt. It’s like Rosalía walked through the garden of her favorite music, picking different flowers and mashing them together to create new hybrids. Which explains how references to an eclectic mix of musicians—the salsero Willie Colón; the rappers Lil’ Kim and M.I.A.; the flamenco artists José Mercé, Niña Pastori, and Manolo Caracol—appear throughout. As we’re talking, she starts to call the album a “radiografía,” combining the words for radio and biography, then stops herself because she knows that’s not what a radiografía is—it’s an X-ray—but it’s somehow still a fitting portmanteau. The references further ground the project in the autobiographical: This is the music she grew up on.

https://www.gq.com/story/gq-hype-rosalia

Saturday

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An artist’s first press cycle can calcify a life, particularly if the musician is a young woman with interests that fall outside of societal expectations. Very quickly, the story of Rosalía Vila Tobella coalesced into the myth of Rosalía. She was born in Sant Cugat del Vallès, a town north of Barcelona. When she was seven, she sang for her family and brought them to tears. At nine she started learning how to play guitar, and fell in love with flamenco at 13. She studied at the Catalonia College of Music in a program that typically accepts one student a year. She played local tablaos, as the bars and restaurants in Spain where flamenco singers and dancers perform are known, sometimes getting paid only with a free dinner. She released a debut album, Los Ángeles, which was straightforward flamenco, just a guitar and her voice. Success soon followed: the critically acclaimed El Mal Querer, based on a 13th-century novel, and a role in Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar’s 2019 film, Pain and Glory. All this set her up as a Very Serious Artist with Very Serious Intentions. It wasn’t hard to imagine what would come next. There is quite a bit of reggaeton in Motomami’s sonic landscape, along with bachata, a little dembow, and even a cover of “Delirio de Grandeza,” a 1968 bolero by the Cuban singer Justo Betancourt. It’s like Rosalía walked through the garden of her favorite music, picking different flowers and mashing them together to create new hybrids. Which explains how references to an eclectic mix of musicians—the salsero Willie Colón; the rappers Lil’ Kim and M.I.A.; the flamenco artists José Mercé, Niña Pastori, and Manolo Caracol—appear throughout. As we’re talking, she starts to call the album a “radiografía,” combining the words for radio and biography, then stops herself because she knows that’s not what a radiografía is—it’s an X-ray—but it’s somehow still a fitting portmanteau. The references further ground the project in the autobiographical: This is the music she grew up on.

https://www.gq.com/story/gq-hype-rosalia

Danhust

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Seems like she's recording more stuff

Danhust

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Seems like she's recording more stuff

Purrp

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Deluxe otw

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