If I an album with this intention, but then make so many collabs just because of streams and numbers, it would lose that original intention. It was really important that the personal tone, the confessional tone, would be present from the beginning to the end. This is the first time that I did an album that has autobiographical content. I love that you very much own this album - it's your record, you own the sound. Speaking of diversity of sound, you've been featured on a ton of different artists' records, but on this album you only have two features. I think that even nowadays, it's more radical. In flamenco you can always see those influences, and I think it's always been a dialogue between artists, between places, between cultures. But also the digital era - the digital era and the internet made such a difference.
For me contemporary artists, the traveling and all of that affects and makes artists music that is inspired different places. Which shows how flamenco always naturally been like a riddle since its origin. If you think about it, flamenco - for example, guajira, rumba, Colombiana, milonga, all of that is part of the flamenco corpus. Do you feel like there's something distinctly Spanish about your openness to experiment with all of these different sounds? I feel like hearing sounds like hers, there is almost this precedent for Spanish artists experimenting in way, combining flamenco with other sounds. She's like the OG "motomami," you know what I mean? How she sings, she puts her sunglasses on.
And I feel like those were the right styles for what I wanted to express in this album. This expression - which is music and style for me - I choose these styles, the bachata, the reggaeton, all of that, because I love them and I want to honor them. That makes it even more obvious to me that it's about this human manifestation. It's just that now, because I've been traveling and my life changed, I have more stimulus from more places and people.
I think always been there that now it's more radical. I always felt music not in a compartmented way. As you evolve, as you go from incorporating these sounds, how do you see yourself continuing to grow? I think it changes the way I make music.įlamenco is a sound that keeps coming back in every single work that you create, but now you're incorporating salsa, bachata and reggaeton. I think that it's such a blessing that I could spend time here because I could learn. Because I was going to the grocery shop and I would buy stuff and talk in English, those things would make me even think in English, and then that would affect how I write.
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Before, all my lyrics would be full of Spanish. If I didn't travel and if I didn't spend so much time in Miami, in Los Angeles, New York and then Puerto Rico, Républica Dominicana - all of that really affected the way this album sounds, even the way I write the Spanglish. That distance, we hear that in the record? You were close to home when you made those. Obviously Los Ángeles, El Mal Querer, you were close to family. I'm very grateful that I could do this project. It was tough, but it made me really grow as a writer, as a producer. and far from my family and far from my country. It's been a whole process of three years. Rosalía: A lot of the project was done in 2020, but also while I was touring in 2019 in 2021 too. You made most of this album during COVID-19, right? To listen to the audio version, click the link above.Īnamaria Sayre, NPR Music: I want to talk about this beautiful album that you put out not too long ago, Motomami. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
The artist recently spoke with NPR Music's Anamaria Sayre about recording the globe-trotting Motomami, choosing to forgo viral features and turning a poignant voice memo from her grandmother into a song. "People who've seen the El Mal Querer shows, now they're going to feel, 'Oh, this is something different,' " she says. Rosalía recently announced her first-ever world tour, and while she says she's excited to perform classics like "Malamente" and "Con Altura," fans should expect new territory from her. And this style is reflective of Rosalía herself, who is unafraid to play and pull from every part of her world. The album's 16 tracks are energizing in their seamless dynamism - shape-shifting and genre-bending within songs. Her album Motomami, released in March, has its fair share of upbeat tracks, but they're not the kind of pop anthems that feel made for 24-hour radio play. The Spanish artist's music, persona and visuals are gripping in a way that's distinct from your typical pop star. There's something undeniably magnetic about Rosalía. "I'm always very sure about what I want to create," the Spanish artist Rosalía tells NPR.
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