2023-11-19 17:56:24
It’s an ordinary rule of music journalism: do not ask to the artist for relative matters to your private life, unless they are relevant to understanding his work. But is that what he really wants? You can think that he is here with you to talk about his disco, with all the rigor and severe rictus, and then see him playing fame and marujeo more noticeable when it’s time for the red carpet and prime time television.
Rosalía proclaims that her “love broke” with Rauw Alejandro at the Latin Grammys
Yes in one interview to When Rosalía releases an album, you ask her about her boyfriends, it is likely that she will answer you with evasions, snorts or accusations of sensationalism. Well, I haven’t tried it, although it is imaginable. But She wants it all, and for now it works: making us raise our eyebrows as a stunning avant-garde creator and at the same time dominating the most banal ‘entertainment’. Your exchange of poisonous rhymes with Rauw Alejandrothe other night at the Latin Grammys, was intended to continue feeding the soap opera. But we are talking about an artist who, among all the interview proposals that are piled up on her table, chooses that of Pablo Motos.
By not to talk about Shakira, that already has at least five songs airing intimate rags (and pointing out his ex, his ex’s current partner, his father and mother), and that the other night he gave a little more bait with his words and the scenes with his offspring. It is about feeding a story, a social conversation in which music plays a prop role. Is it a certain press that promotes morbidity? There is a mutual feedingbut increasingly, it is the artist who creates that cycle that excites extra-musical passions.
Now the news must have a story behind it or, rather, in front of it. In the ‘mainstream’, but not only there. To gain attention, music does not present itself. We see it on television, where it only appears when it is mixed with other ingredients (competitiveness, personal improvement, geography, cooking), and we notice it in the way many creators approach their promotional narrative.
Albums where the thematic background comes to the foreground, even airing plots of intimate life: metal diseases, anorexias, toxic love stories…Yes, all of that is part of the universe of the creator, and it is human to feel attracted to a work through that lane, but I miss a little more focus on the music itself, on its language and its internal logic. It is the price that the artist pays to be on everyone’s lips, and as we see, he does it gladly.
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