¿Rosalía = Billie x Arca? "Motomami" review
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- Опубликовано: 18 окт 2024
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One of the most progressive and experimental mainstream albums I’ve heard in awhile.
I was a hater at the beginning because of the lyric content in this album, but once I heard the full project I understand the mood and the concept, and now I LOVE IT. Music is much more about structured lyrics and choruses and she´s willing to prove it
Si eras ignorante enough para no apreciar las obras por separado, no vengas ahora a decir que te gusta porque tenga piezas más 'serias' por el medio, no lo arreglas :)
Fun Fact: CUuuuuuute has Brazilian Influences in the drums. Samba, the carnaval music more specifically, percussions stuff
Fun Fact: Hentai has Japanese influences in the title and lyrics
the drums were done by tayhana, a producer from argentina, please check out her music! she works with a mexican label called naafi, they do a ton of avant-garde reggaeton c:
@@nacomancia very interesting, thank u
To me it sounded like ballroom music - like something you can vogue to, she kind of made reference to that in her tik tok live. Also “keep it cute” is a phrase used a lot in the black and queer community, which mainly influences ballroom culture.
It really has influence from Arca, especially her song incendio which also uses Brazilian influences
Arca and Rosalía have also collaborated on a song off kick i, and Arca's said that she'd like to work with her again
They are very good friends
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and how could i forget about Motomami Los Santos ruclips.net/video/xNjHCRa-pFk/видео.html
I was nervous to listen to this album.
Besides Los Angeles, El Mal Querer and her live flamenco performances with Raul Refree, I’ve stayed away from Rosalia lately. Because her traditional sound is so, so damn good, I’ve worried that we were losing that as she began dipping her toes in reggaeton and pop.
Holy crap was I wrong. Multiple times during this album I found myself shaking my head and saying, out loud, "Are you kidding me???"
I wasn't keeping tabs on where I was in track list. So as I neared what I expected to be the end, I kept wondering "How the hell is she going to top this?" Every single one of the last songs blew me away. I mean, the whole album did. But taken as a whole, the build up towards the crescendo at the end is immaculate.
When the song with Tokischa came on, I was floored. "She did it," I thought. In every song leading up to that, both on the album and in previous albums, she'd been teasing us with the idea that she can do both flamenco and reggaeton extremely well. But never together... until now. I cannot get enough of the reggaeton beat and Tokischa's vocals, combined with Rosalia's flemenco-inspired singing, plus (because there's always more layers in her music) the flemenco-style clapping rhythms. Mind utterly blown.
“A conversation across the Atlantic” totally nails it. What an incredible synthesis of popular Spanish-language music styles.
Regarding the lyrics, I’ve often wished I could flip a switch and turn off my ability to understand English. I want to experience my favorite music *without* the meaning that comes through in the lyrics. I want to understand it, as Professor Skye mentioned, as the vast majority of people around the world experience English music. Alas, since I can’t do that, I’ve turned to international music as a way to get that experience.
Thus with Rosalia’s music, I find myself not wanting to analyze the lyrics. It’s ironic, in a way, since I literally do reaction videos to Spanish-language music in order to learn and practice the language. And yet what I’ve appreciated most about Rosalia’s music is the sound and the feeling she conveys above, around, and through the actual lyrics.
Her previous two albums are among my favorites of all time, and yet I’ve never looked up the lyrics for either. They are, for me, a sort of escape from the English language. When I want to immerse myself in an exceptional and interesting musical world, I turn to Rosalia. I get to focus on the sound, rhythm, feeling, etc of the words rather than their meaning. I’m not unwilling to be persuaded, but for now I’m going to stick with that and avoid the lyrics on this album as I’ve done with the others.
One thing I don’t understand is the Japanese influence. Bad Bunny recently released a Japanese-influenced song as well (Yonaguni) where he even speaks Japanese, Weeknd style. Obviously anime is huge, and has been for a long time, but is there something more going on? Are artists outside of the Spanish-speaking world showing signs of Japanese influence? If so I’d love to hear about it. I’m part Japanese and grew up around a ton of Japanese culture, so it’s cool to see it seep into pop culture in this way and combine with reggaeton, hip-hop, Latin American, and now flamenco culture.
All in all, as others have said already, this is the best possible follow-up to her last album, and one of the most progressive and experimental mainstream albums I’ve heard in a while. I cannot wait to listen to this album many more times and develop an even finer sense for the range of musical influence Rosalia synthesized for it.
This and Multitude by Stromae are truly masterpieces.
If you haven’t, I highly highly highly recommend her previous two albums. And if I could recommend just one other Spanish-language album, it’d be this:
Manual de Cortejo by Rodrigo Cuevas & Raül Refree
Great review as always. Your work here is an inspiration 🔥🙏
Obsessed with El dia que naci yo by Rodrigo Cuevas and Raul Refree!
Me encantan tus impresiones de La Combi Versace. También pienso que es el clímax del álbum, la combinación de su Flamenco en las palmas y los cantes, con el Reggaeton que ha estado trabajando últimamente.
Lo que mencionas sobre escuchar tu música favorita sin analizar las letras, es la razón de porqué empecé a escuchar y disfrutar música en inglés: enfocarme en escuchar precisamente la música; los sonidos, melodías, armonías, ritmos, timbres.
Si no has escuchado Los Jaivas, los recomiendo mucho, especialmente Alturas de Machu Pichu. Un álbum ochentero que musicaliza con rock andino-progresivo poemas de Pablo Neruda.
@@monicap7941 Yesssss 🔥 I don't understand why Raul doesn't get more coverage. Everything he works on is incredible. He's truly got a Midas touch!
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¡Guau! Gracias por la recomendación. Los acabo de agregar a mi biblioteca. ¿Eres de Chile?
Curiosamente, ayer estaba investigando sobre los colaboradores de Luis Miguel y descubrí una banda española de los años 70 que ponía música a la poesía tradicional andaluza.
Está llegando al punto en que entiendo suficiente español y no puedo ignorar las letras por completo. Al menos con la música mexicana. Con Rosalía es diferente ya que ni los españoles siempre la entienden jajaja.
¡Eventualmente tendré que elegir otro idioma si quiero concentrarme solo en los sonidos!
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Wow! Thanks for the recommendation. I just added them to my Library. Are you from Chile?
Interestingly, yesterday I was researching Luis Miguel's collaborators and discovered a Spanish band from the 1970s that put traditional Andalusian poetry to music.
It's getting to the point for me that I understand enough Spanish that I can't ignore lyrics completely. At least with Mexican music. With Rosalia it's different since even Spaniards don't always understand her hahaha.
Eventually I'll have to choose another language if I want to focus only on the sounds!
@@sillygringo4861 exacto, de Chile! Lugar donde confluyen muchas culturas dada su extensión. Ya que mencionas a Luis Miguel, México, España, debo decir, me atrevo a afirmar, que el idioma español (junto con el sincretismo católico) es uno de los pocos elementos unificadores que tienen en común los países hispanohablantes. Todos los países, incluso entre regiones de un mismo país, tienen una jerga y acento distintivo y característico. Es en los últimos años, con el fenómeno de inmigración y globalización digital, que ha habido mayor entendimiento y mezcla entre diversas culturas hispanohablantes.
El "español de españa" es casi inentendible para los países latinoamericanos. Algo similar debe ocurrir con los acentos estadounidenses y británicos del inglés, con mayor cantidad de variaciones y más extremas para el caso latino. Hace unos 15 años el reggaeton era una novedad en las latitudes del sur, un estilo que finalmente cuajó y puede ser presentado como un elemento latino, aunque en origen no lo fuera completamente.
Un fenómeno que se da junto a esta "consolidación de lo hispano frente a lo anglo" es el resurgimiento y validación de lenguas originarias, prehispánicas. Sin duda, desde este punto, están saliendo y saldrán más trabajos que podrían ir en la línea de la mezcla y rescate entre tradición y "modernidad" (¿trascendencia popular digital?) que significó El Mal Querer.
My two cents:
- Don't miss the use of Archangel's melody in Candy. Burial is credited in the song.
- El guincho and Rosalía are co-authors on her sophmore album, which probably led to FKA picking him up. They really did amazing work.
- As far as I know "Sakura" isn't made to sound like a concert, but rather *is* a snippet from one of her concerts in Madrid.
- The whole album feels very postmodern to me, I think there's very solid grounds to argue that.
Great review, love that you went out of your comfort zone on this one. Great job as always
hi I'm Cuban, living in Barcelona. This was indeed a challenge to review, the cultural references are all over the place, and i have to commend you, you didn't skip a beat. Wow! I'm so impressed! all the references you studied for this: the genesis of reggeaton, poligonero culture in Spain (may i reiterate, wow!) I'm glad you mentioned the cultural appropriation conversation around her music. I don't have a definitive answer either, it's so hard to decide, because her music is so goood, i'm biased. This album is just absolutely amazing. I'm so happy that it even resonates with non-spanish speakers, which is very telling of the quality of the experimentation she's doing. It's so incredibly hard to make something so experimental, "potable", easy to digest for the masses that are not musically trained or don't directly identify with the culture that all of this music originates from. (the pistol is exactly what you think) thanks for this review!
palabra por palabra suscribo todo lo que has dicho, iba a dejar un coment, pero ya lo has expresado tu muy bien jaja, solo cambio que soy cubana viviendo en mallorca, todo lo demas copio y pego xD
Great video profesor, here are a new suscription, so glad to meet you.
on the "reggaeton from spain" thing at 9:30. People in spain are more connected to latin and south american people, music, influencers and everything in general than with the rest of europe. Specially with the growth of the internet, latam and spain are really united in that way. There's also like a "we're tired of american and English hegemony" feeling as u said. For example, the latin Grammy's awards which are completely separated from the american ones. (im from spain xd)
So now that you did motomami it’s time you take her master class in flamenco pop called El Mal Querer! PLEASE do yourself the HONOR of enjoying this master piece and really every generation has a Rosalia but this album will transcend time and be a piece of art forever. Some people make music and some people make art. Rosalia has gifted US with ART!! PLEASE REVIEW EL MAL QUERER!!! Please like this comment so we can show the professor he should review ROSALIA’s second album too!!!!!!!
The genre of La Fama is actually called bachata! :')
Muy buena reseña, Profesor Cielo. Grite fuerte cuando te escuche decir "poligonero".
Profesor Cielo 🗣🗣🗣 write it down Skye!
This album gave me big ΛΛΛYΛ (Maya) vibes. Definitely don't mean to compare ROSALÍA to M.I.A., but this record feels just as groundbreaking. ΛΛΛYΛ predated 'Yeezus' and really set the groundwork for a lot of experimental music that really set the bar afterwards, MOTOMAMI feels just as revolutionary. I absolutely love Rosalía. Loved this album.
She's an international treasure. Protect her at all costs.
rosalia references M.I.A. in bulerias
i'm at work, i'm almost crying because of what u r saying means to me , i'm a waiter in sinaloa, mexico. so u can imagine that this was not the moment to listen to you but thanks
I am Galician too! the thing about this 'poligonero' culture is centered in a late 2000 explosion of a lot of macroClubs which were placed in industrial parks and working class people with a liking for cars and tunning cars created a culture and an aesthetic around that. Rosalía is from the outskirts of Barcelona, she already referenced this kind of periferic industrial places in her previous work but this time she took it the extra level
Fun Fact: The main influence for “La Fama” is Bachata, a Dominican genre. You should look it up!
Se nota en canciones como 'Tú Eres Ajena', solo cambia la guitarra por el sintetizador
yes! and the bachata's typical guitar arpeggio recorded with her sampled voice is just amazing. This album is truly a surprise for me.
I'm Brazilian (second language is English) but I can understand Spanish well and wow....this album is just gorgeous!I felt a lot of that "pan-latin" identification as you said, apparently the poligonero culture is quite similar to chola or even brazilian favela aesthetics (over the top, flexing, ultra-sexy etc...)
I'm so happy you decided to review this album, thanks for your review!! Keep up the awesome work!
I adore it when you say that the album is fighting linguistic hegemony, because Rosalia could have had a fresh start with this album and sing several songs in English (specially with her collaboration with The Weekend) to be even more mainstream, but she stays faithful to her roots and her language.
poisonous and backwards thinking on your part
@@Zodemus Really? I'm praising you both... 🤔
Okay Rosalía collab with producers but she s a producer herself, she is 100% involved at the creation of a song. Like I saw Noah only get involved to the last touches on the album. El Guincho is a old collaborator they produced together her second album EL MAL QUERER.
Watching a non spanish speaker analyzing this album makes me understand how this album is so well reviewed. It presents a lot of "new" things for english speakers. Its interesting to point the dominance of english in the world. This era of multilanguage globalization, will end us in a Babel state of culture. This album is well received cause it is a cultural step on that direction.
About your video reaction : Bravo 👏 👏👏👏...Thank you for taking your time to analyse her album that deeply
This was the most insightful review of the album I heard so far it was almost like a history lesson ❤️ I love it! 👍
Check out the New York Times Popcast on Rosalía / Motomami. That one, and Prof. Skye's review, are the two top bits of insight I've found so far.
@@pacerhythmandtiming.4109 Thanks I will definitely take a look
Weird, I found it to be ignorant, regressive, backwards and a little bigoted.
What a fantastic review, instant sub. I too was coming from a place of ignorance with this album but it's album of the year for me so far, absolutely phenomenal. I'm obsessed
Nice Review professor!
I’m a Latin American living in Miami where I’m subject to a lot of the styles of music she’s using. So just an FYI in case you’re interested in more Latin American music terminology, the percussion and rhythms you hear on La Fama is a style of music called Bachata, it comes from the Dominican Republic.
I love everything about this video. You give me English teacher vibes and I love it. Keep doing these!!!!!
Forgive me for such a sweeping, homogenising and reductionist quote but I’ve yet to come across anyone else on YT that writes reviews this lavishly informed by art history, critical+cultural theory and other streams of academia whilst still showcasing their own personal outlook and its possible pitfalls with this much charisma and curiosity to understand other worlds beyond said Anglo-American hegemony (which I too, specially as a Lusophone African, am often embittered by). Prof Skye continually wows me with his unedited, stream-of-consciousness Zizekio-Diogenic style: the cosmopolitan sensitivity, the Warholian melding of the high and low, the (in his words) ‘dad’ humour, the candidness… the abject appreciation for all things art be it: the young griots in Ghana trying to rap their way out of the ghetto; or their African-American diaspora in the underground hip-hop scene that tries to make sense of its postcolonial schizophrenia; or Rosalia’s Latino-Nkrumahist ode to the Spanish-speaking world's history and her manifesto for its future, all subtextually dancing beneath these dembows and flamencos - Skye seems to see none of these as lesser or more than the other. Nor does he stoop to sentimentalist and simplistic accusations of “cultural appropriation” when so-called minorities’ subcultural phenomena gets the deserved clout but through a first-world synthesis. He just gets it! Man, I almost teared seeing him dissect that appropriation-appreciation aspect with so much nuance, intricacy and love for the culture.
Professor Skye = Mark Fisher x Claude Lévi-Strauss x Roland Barthes?
Thank you for summing up the content of the video so concisely. I can understand the feelings of the speaker, but I don't understand all the English expressed, so I was left halfway. Thank you very much! ❤️
@@serena8888 🦀❤️
The word Zarzamora, which she mentions in the Abcdefg thing, is heavily related in the spanish culture not only to the fruit but to a popular Copla from 1946 called "La Zarzamora". I guess, given her influences that is why she brings it up. m.ruclips.net/video/6dCJDk_e1iw/видео.html.
Congrats on your chanel
OMG THE LYRICS OF THIS SONG- totally connected to El Mal Querer. Rosalia does nothing by accident….. 🤯🤯🤯🥺 what an Easter egg! Thanks for sharing!
Since you talked so much about language and culture and also asked about more interesting music from Spain, you should check Tanxugueiras. They are from Galicia and their style it's mix of traditional music from the northwest of Spain with Celtic roots and a more modern and electronic production. The lyrics from the song "Terra" are sung in five different languages that are spoken all across Spain.
Holy crap this sounds amazing!
@@sillygringo4861 They are truly amazing! They make you cry! They take you away! 😍
Great review, professor!
I'll admit, this usually isn't my cup of tea, but Fantano was positive about it so it was on my radar. Your review pushed me to listen to it, and I fell in love with it. Your approach to the cultural aspects of music are really eye opening, and sets you apart from other critics. Hell, there was even a song whose beat made me imagine you on the elliptical!
Anyway, thanks for the great work as always.
Being Latin@ is a cultural background that is much bigger than only speak Spanish. Latin America has roots of the Europeans, specially from Spain and Portugal, but also has influence from the slaves that came from Africa and its own amerindian culture. In music As spaniard I do not consider me as latino but in music we exchange influences during the centuries because the past and the language in common. El cajón peruano used in flamenco comes from that exchange in the XVI century.
The whole idea of cultural appropriation between the latin and the spanish is absolutely ridiculous to anyone who knows the least bit of history. People and families have been crossing the Atlantic both ways for centuries. There wasn't one bit of culture that hadn't been there and back again even long before the internet, and nowadays it's really just a dumb proposition to even consider.
The time it takes for a photon to travel a fiber optic cable is the time it takes for latinoamerican culture to hit BCN and viceversa. It's all a beautiful mishmash, and it's something to be celebrated.
I was hoping you'd review this because the sounds are so rich and interesting. Sometimes I prefer to listen to non English language music because I can focus more on the musical content rather than the lyrics.
If you haven't heard it, there's a James Blake and Rosalia song 'Barefoot in the Park' their vocals together are so beautiful.
Billie said she got inspired by Rosalia for her album, she is her fan. And Arca is a close friend of Rosalía
I’m currently on vacation in Spain and in a weird way, I feel like I learned a lot about Spanish/Catalan culture from MOTOMAMI. This was a teaching album for me, there are so many wonderful lessons about life and music.
You're getting noticeably better at doing these videos. AND this is a great video
I do prefer Rosalia's more traditional stuff, but I appreciate this step out.
ARCA is a good influence lmao
you should do el mal querer by Rosalia, its incredibly intricate and has such deep meaning
This the best review by far I found. Congratulations for such amazing research. My time watching it was abs worthy.
Very good comments; Thanks for your analysis, I think you capture the art that Rosalía gives us, a musical phenomenon that leads us to rethink established concepts and ideas, those that don't let us grow. Greetings!
Amazing review and analysis of the album and its influences. ❤️❤️
Speaking of Daddy Yankee he just announced his retirement from music after the release of his last album and tour
Rosalia has a much stronger voice than Billie. She’s also a much more interesting performer. I’d say she’s more comparable to FKA twigs
She's not comparable to FKA Twigs LMAOO
I mean Billie isn't really a performer so yeah
@@nightcrawler8864 ?
@@tomv2063 ??
@@nightcrawler8864 Rosalia produced a better album this year than FKA twigs so
that fallacy of ¨cultural appropriation¨ needs to end. In music especially, that concept is nonsensical
I love how this clown opens with a long winded preamble about how humble and ignorant he is, and likely even unworthy to even approach this music but then grants himself the right to not only ask the question of “cultural appropriation”, but definitively answer it as well. These people obsessed with identity and hierarchies of oppression are as filled with poison as their right wing counterparts.
@@vwnb you don’t get the right to judge intent and hearts and minds. It’s as simple as that.
@@Zodemus yeah but if people keep erasing history then the noise about cultural appropriation is appropriate. The point isn't to judge intent of the clueless, it's to educate so that their actions reflect their intent
@@vwnb and yet judging is exactly what is done.. this video is a perfect example. Professor Clown Show here thinks he can tell a person’s motivations for their particular chosen idiom of artistic expression.
Further, I have yet to meet a single person who is attempting to erase or ignore the past. Identity obsessed people create bogeyman everywhere.
@@Zodemus Yeah I never witnessed a mass phenomenon carried out by a single person either
It was very humble and very well put at the beginning of the presentation of the video the fact that as many English speakers, you barely listen music in Spanish, barely know anything about Latin, flamenco and Brazilian music therefore you are a bit scared about reviewing the album.
In my opinion comparing Rosalía with Arca or Billie is bold yet not risky enough as all of them share this Avant Garde style of production or self produce their music. They control the process, they speak about themselves, they are universally recognisable in their conflict, in their art.
I'm loving for the first time in years seeing people ( I live in UK) listening a song in Spanish, obviously not understanding a single word, but thoroughly enjoying themselves. Priceless
yes, the grandma is talking in Catalan.
What a well studied review! I'm subscribing! I also love this album, i have listened to some of the songs in a loop for the last days. If you liked it and discovered a new interest for flamenco, try to listen to her album El Mal Querer (it was her Bachelor End proyect) even if you don't review it on the chanel
great review, Professor! and such an outstanding album. If you'd like some other tasteful cross-over with flamenco style, I humbly suggest Ojos de Brujo: they played (such a shame, not anymore) a super funny flamenco/funky/rock/whatever mix, never found something similar.
This reminds me of an album I KNOW you would love. Maybe you even reviewed it last year. It’s from an Israeli singer songwriter. Noga Erez’ KIDS. It’s fantastic. I learned about it because Billie and Phinneas were jamming the hell out of it when it came out.
Gracias por aclarar que aclarar que este sonido se utilizó primero en Panama y se popularizó en Puerto Rico. ☺️💕
Dear Prof. Skye, I'm still in the middle of your review, but I wanted to reply quick to this one doubt that you had: "Is Rosalía a poligonera?"
That, she definitely is. She grew up hanging around the industrial outskirts of Barcelona, which is where she picked up flamenco from the andalucian emigrants as a young teenager, as explained by herself in multiple interviews.
All of this - the mishmash of everything "lowbrow" that reaches that sphere of culture - from gel nails to Versace tracksuits to reggaetón to Lole y Manuel to TikTok and fast bikes - is a staple of Rosalía's cultural upbringing. A melting pot of trends and tendencies that the traditionalists would happily scoff at - but that Rosalía celebrates and elevates to a new standard of "high culture" because of her perfectionism, artistry and skill.
All of Rosalía's opus is a love letter to that rejected part of the Spanish cultural landscape. Very much parallel to the humble roots of gypsy flamenco as well. You could see the industrial polygon being celebrated already on El Mal Querer, and Motomami extends on that concept.
A virtuoso level artisan elevating a part of culture that no traditional high brow even considers culture. She doesn't differentiate between "high" and "low", and treats "low" with all of her love and respect, thus creating something completely new. Perhaps realizing, that true innovation happens from the bottom up - despite what most unfun starched penguins would like to tell themselves.
Rosalía is a goddess.
You’re the only one in all of this who provided any kind of real insight.
Further take on the "poligonero culture" bit: you are not far off! Rosalia is from a city on the outskirts of Barcelona, she loves motorcycles and she definitely grew up within "poligonero culture". Good background check :)
One of your best videos, keep up the good work!
Great review and great job on the research professor! Even though I speak spanish I hadn't got all the references you mentioned and still learned a lot about this album.
Also, I have to admit it makes me kind of mad when (some) european people fight for the right to call themselves "latin" just because of the language they speak. There is so much more to being latin american than speaking a latin language - the colonization process and indigenous genocide, the exploration for over 4 centuries, the socioeconomical disparities that still linger around due to our history - I feel it's an identity that unites all countries in LatAm that simply does not apply to europeans.
I believe that people should recognize their privileges - whether they're of gender, race or class - and that includes being born in the so called "Global North".
Don't worry, we Spaniards don't understand half of what Rosalía sings either, she uses a lot of slang and very exaggerated Andalusian/Latin ways of speaking
Hey Professor, I really recomend you to see a latin youtuber named El Chombo (Te lo dijo El Chombo). He is basically a reggaeton LEGEND who decided to spred his knowledge on the subject in some of his videos. Just if you want to know more about reggaeton or even latin culture. He is something like a music guru in latinamerica.
Subscribing now. Thanks for recommending him. I've been going down the Spanish language (specifically Mexican) music rabbit hole lately so I'm always on the lookout for people to learn from.
Excellent analysis and comments; Exact , Rosalia is a best, talented Spanish Queen. She has the beautiful and incredible voice that goes directly to the soul, with the best voice and the best art, she can sing everything with her voice ( Trap, Rap, Reggaeton, Pop, Folk, ... and Flamenco, of course). Can another singer of those styles sing flamenco? And have they mixed those styles before her ?... Answer : NO ! . She has all my respect and admiration. Also in fact, Billie and many other great artists admire Rosalía a lot.
Just a note, a lot of people in Spain wouldn't see 'chingarte' as particularly notable (it's less like an American saying 'g'day' and more like an English rapper using an Americanism - marked as different but not alien sounding)
The effect that this album had on my brain :
💥🧠🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫
"Poligoneros" are also tacky... And yes, Travolta is a good analogy. But, anyways, Japanese culture is also an influence in Motomami, besides her tribute to "poligonerism" (which we can see in her clothes, nails, imaginery etc.). And yes, Rosalia's influences are from everywhere, both musically and audiovisually! A small example: in the videoclip "Candy" she copies "literally" a scene from the movie "Lost in translation", by Sofia Coppola; her ex husband is Spike Jonze. And in Hentai, she mentions "make me a tape Spike mode". And who is that Spike? She herself said it is Spike Jonze. The layers we can find in her songs are endless...
You should listen to Utada Hikaru's album Bad Mode, you're going to love how experimental Japanese singers can be, it's like a Japanese Arca!
reggaeton has been popular in spain since the late 90s, all the reggaeton classics have been heard by the spaniards, so her doing reggaeton its not the same as an american discovering reggaeton and doing it now just because its popular and without respect or knowledge for the genre
you reallly need to do a review of el mal querer
One of the moments I feel proud my first language is Spanish
Hey Professor you should check out the new Denzel Curry album that's coming out this week, it seems like it's gonna be an interesting and enjoyable album
This week?!?! Oh snap I didn't realize it was coming so soon 😃
@@sillygringo4861 yeah I think it's out friday! he dropped a new song with t-pain today too!
@@noidedorion Saw that and decided not to listen so that I could hear it fresh on the album! Oh man I'm pumped!
To the person who recommended *Kae Tempest* in the comments, I want to thank you. You have no idea how happy I am to discover their work. I've been looking for something of this nature for a long time 🙏
Great album 👏👏👏
AOTY for sure (so far)
No. That is "Ants From Up There".
@@danielmacias2097 2nd for me
By the way regarding your "more spanish artists" final thought, you should really check out el madrileño by c.tangana. It was the biggest album in spain last year and its a perfect mixture of hispanic genres produced inmaculately. Also , c.tangana is Rosalia's ex, so theres some gossip there too
And another very very very unique and interesting recomendation is califato 3/4, which is an electronic music collective based on the south of spain whose music is a blend of breakbeat rave music and traditional spanish christian music and flamenco. Also so much more, they are insane. I think Crîtto de lâ Nabahâ is a good introduction to them. Love your videos ♥️
El Madrileño is amazing. Felt like I was walking on air the first time I listened to it. I thought to suggest it as well but went with Manual de Cortejo by Rodrigo Cuevas & Raül Refree. I really can't get enough of Raül's work. The album he did with Lina is incredible as well. Reminiscent of Los Angeles, but uniquely Portuguese.
El Madrileño is a good album too
I'm assuming Como un G is about C. Tangana. Candy might be as well.
But yeah, El Madrileño was my favorite album of the past few years until Motomami blew my lid off.
The NPR Tiny Home Concert they did for El Madrileño is outstanding.
I'm spanish and speak english, some singers truly make me feel his/her emotions and I'm so immersed in the melody that I forget to understand the lyrics, it happens to me even with some spanish songs, just enjoying the experience
What a pleasure to see such an intelligence dealing with things.
Greetings from Madrid.
Interesting breakdown, lots of things to say but I Don’t want to bore you in case you read this. If you want to know more about poligoneros and where Rosalia comes from you should watch a movie called yo soy la juani that happens to happen around rosalia’s hometown. Def checking more of your videos.
Yes I've heard that song :~)
La Fama is in bachata style. Bulerias is a bulerias palms processed. Hentai's organ is played by the supermusician Cory Henry.
This album proves how Arca is such a cultural reset.
Don't feel bad I'm fluent in Spanish but she's sometimes uses the castellano language which I font understand at all lol
I speak spanish but I also don't know a lot of the words she is singing.
You were right about the pistol. “Chingar” is actually a Puerto Rican slang, which means “to have sex”. She is very influenced by Puerto Rican culture, as evidenced by her lyrics. Great video.
I appreciate the fact that you acknowledged that you don’t know much about Spanish music and all its different genres. I think that’s something that a lot of people reviewing this album miss. It’s honestly a disrespect towards our language and music. You do not need to understand it to appreciate it. I think we should respect everyone’s languages and culture.
That being said, it’s very sad to see Hispanics talking badly about this album. Especially people making jokes and saying they can’t understand her. I think it’s disrespectful because that’s her accent and she’s obviously very proud of where she’s from and never forgets to mention it. And the joke has gotten old after people making it every chance they get for years.
The album itself is one of my favorites I’ve listened to recently and may just be an overall favorite. It’s cohesive but doesn’t feel repetitive. I absolutely hate when albums sound like random songs thrown into a playlist.
I haven’t listened to any of her past music (apart from a feature here and there) but I do know that she wanted to have fun with this album. I think she did just that.
I actually went into it expecting to be disappointed, which I now regret. I heard BIZCOCHITO after someone posted it on social media and complained about not being able to understand her (like I said, very big pet peeve of mine). I understood everything she said and was actually very drawn in by it. I thought it was going to be some other reggae album made specifically with the intention of making songs that would end up on the radio. But it couldn’t be further from that.
I had a very strong bias against Rosalía for a long time because she’s a Spaniard doing Latin music and I found her annoying. But then I realized that she’s Hispanic and she’s allowed to make music in whatever genre she wants!! Like you said, music goes beyond language and culture. Nobody gets mad when Latinos do ‘’Spanish’’ (as in, from the country of Spain) music, so why should we get mad when she’s influenced by Latin music? She always acknowledges her influences and is respectful about it.
She’s doing so much more than other well known Latin male artists and I respect her for that. If somebody like Bad Bunny did an album like this, people would be eating it up. And I **have** seen a lot of people comparing it to X100PRE by Bad Bunny and saying that MOTOMAMI was more experimental (haven’t listened to X100PRE so I won’t make any comments on it). The blend of different genres and sounds is SUCH a breath of fresh air, especially in terms of mainstream Spanish music. And I love that she used slang from different countries (as a Mexican, I appreciate the ‘’chingate’’, haha). I am not very familiar with Spanish from Spain so I had to look up the English translations for some lyrics. I actually liked that though. It made me listen to the music itself instead of focusing on what she was saying.
In conclusion, I feel bad for judging her but she couldn’t have impressed me more. I’ve been listening to it nonstop and can’t get enough of it, as you can tell by how much I wrote.
And The Weeknd was a very nice surprise! His Spanish is actually very good and his voice is beautiful to listen to. I always appreciate people taking the time to learn Spanish when they feature on Spanish songs. Just had to throw that in there. Not very familiar with the other artists featured but they were also very nice touches. And the overall production is WOW. I’ll leave it here for now!
Cuuuute lyrics A for alfa b for bravo are from OTAN Alphabet which is used in spelling through radio communication, so everyone can understand the message independent on their mother tongue. Right after these lyrics she says “take me away. Away from here” so I feel like it’s a way of saying “please listen carefully, take me away from this place” contrasting with the beautiful comforting lyrics of the “mariposas sueltas por la calle” part. So it’s not silly it’s coded 🙂
It makes sense since she was in la feeling the impact of fame, the pandemic and being away from her family. So it was lonely but she could find beauty in small moments like walking on the street. That’s how i see it
That’s why she mentions lady d as well. The contrast of her kindness with pretentious famous people fits the song duality perfectly. She’s a HUGE artist for this record people can’t even scratch the surface of motomami
i was waiting for this review but when i saw the thumbnail i was upset like seriously? is that his conclusion after listening to this album? but then i’m glad it wasn’t
Lol same
Clickbait thumbnails should be left for clickbait tier content. I skipped this interview so many times because of the thumbnail, until someone specifically recommended it.
The difference between Rosalia and Billie Eilish is that Rosalia doesnt need to try to sing. And her last album is more experimental. I genetally dont like reggaeton but then why do I love this album so much?
Motorcycle culture is very popular in peripheral regions in Brazil
I loved your point about cultural appropriation, as I had the same thought myself.
A person with a privileged background borrowing the image and sounds of really oppressed and impoverished societies.
"No makeup en la ola se corea" my make up in the Korean wave, for people who doesn't know about makeup koreans more interested in skin care and then on top very soft skin like makeup, like it's there but you don't notice, very glowy, clear skin, minimal makeup, maybe the strongest think may be the brows, which you need because soft brows with dark hair is strange
i would love to hear your thought on M.I.A
Interesting analysis!
One comment about your Canadian bilingual hypothesis though: it’s not really clear if the Weeknd speaks French. Apparently he dropped out of Ontarian high school, which doesn’t bode well for his proficiency as most Canadians west of Quebec don’t need French to function and rarely immerse fully in the language to master it, leading to poor skills. Even when they venture east, like in Montreal, they can function fully with English and 0% French. The recent Air Canada CEO’s debacle is a good example of this rather unfortunate truth, even though the guy was married to a Québécois woman and had French-speaking ancestors.
The Weeknd does speak a Somalian language as his native tongue, but it’s bit unclear to my untrained ears and tongue that this should help with romance languages. At best, it gives him more phonemes to work with.
For other Canadians musicians, it’s also hard to generalize, especially if they’re high school dropouts and never lived in a francophone community. Even for those who lived and studied in Montreal (almost exclusively at anglophone and prestigious McGill) up to graduate studies, it’s hard to know. Grimes? Win Butler? Tim Hecker? Colin Stetson? Mac Demarco? I don’t know of any public moment in which they chose to express themselves in French, but they might exist. For instance, Vancouver native Grimes went on Québécois public TV show Tout le monde en parle and answered French questions… en anglais. It’s easier to find clips of actor Bradley Cooper speaking French than most Canadian pop stars (The Biebs, Drake, …). My guess is that they all have a B1 proficiency in French, maybe higher in comprehension, far from the ideal C1 or C2 that a genuine bilingual nation would want.
Ethiopian**, not Somalian
Since reggaeton is sang in spanish thats the main genre of music we listen to in Spain. And It has a lot of influence on our culture as well. I'm sure if you check out the most listened tracks on Spain they are reggaeton. When we party its common to listen to reggaeton. Also Spain is a really diverse country, with a mixed background and a lot of lenguages and traditions.
All is mixed because Spain is mixed😭
Spain may be europe but our culture has more to do with the mediterranean culture and latin América, not germany or uk or finlad etc our way of living and interacting, working, socializing, eating.. is much more similar than what u all think. Even more than those english speaking third gen inmigrants in USA.
I'd be curious to hear you talk longer in depth about english language hegemony and breaking it. It feels to me their are tiers to language hegemony, not just english language hegemony which maybe feels the most prominent, but also more broadly colonial language hegemony. For example, the two languages you reference early on, spanish and french, are languages that aren't english but simultaneously are definitely languages of colonial privilege, especially in how you noted Rosalía isn't a Latin American spanish speaker but a Spanish spanish speaker.
Do you think breaking English language hegemony with any language is powerful enough to open the door further for languages underrepresented in popular culture? Or are other cultures still being sidelined by emphasizing colonial languages when breaking hegemony. Am I totally off base by even categorizing all of these languages as colonial? In terms of languages I feel are underrepresented, I'm thinking any host of native African languages, South/Southeast Asian languages, as well as thinking back to your conversation with Fantano and eastern European languages.
Ibibio Sound Machine are a great example of a semi popular band signed to an americsn label (Merge) actually breaking this hegemony more extremely, with a good portion of their lyrics, especially on their album Uyai, being sung in the Ibibio language, a language native to the Ibibio people in Nigeria.
Sorry for the long comment, always appreciate your vids!
Billie and arca wtf , rosalia is rosalia
Not to be mean but as a Colombian the sentence "i don't know what a Daddy Yankee is" made me laugh so hard.
Amazing video though. Motomami is my aoty so far
you should check out C. Tangana's last album it is a mixture of the trap and reggaeton styles he came into the scene with and dominate Spanish Pop Culture as off today with the traditional Flamenco which recalls to some of the country's greatest art and music. C. Tangana used to date Rosalia and even was a big part of the direction she took with her previous album which was a bit more Flamenco and less Reggaeton/Dembow/Neo Perreo taking part in a lot of the production. C. Tangana's aproach is pretty interesting and refreshing and he definetly has something different to offer than Rosalia.
I need to listen to more of him! El Madrileño is amazing. Felt like I was walking on air the first time I listened to it. I thought to suggest it as well but went with Manual de Cortejo by Rodrigo Cuevas & Raül Refree. I really can't get enough of Raül's work. The album he did with Lina is incredible as well. Reminiscent of Los Angeles, but uniquely Portuguese.
@@sillygringo4861 Have you listened to Refree's project Granada with Silvia Pérez Cruz? All the songs there are covers but there's quite a variety of languages and the voice is fascinating
@@theinvisiblefan1231 Oh crap, no! First time I'm hearing about it, and adding it to my library right away. I clearly haven't dug as deep as I need to haha. Although I did just find out he collaborated on an album with Mexican artists Cabezas De Cera and Juan Pablo Villa, which I'm now planning to react to on my channel. I've been wondering for a long time if Refree had ever applied his touch to Mexican music. So excited!
Professor, we would love if you took a look at the newest Bladee x Ecco2K album that released this weekend
i agree francisco
La Fama is a song based in the genre “bachata”, actually The Weeknd sounds pretty much the same as Romeo Santos, the bachata king.
Deberías permitir o traducir lo que dices en los subtitulos para tener un mayor alcance y así poder compartir tus ideas con quienes no hablan vuestro lenguaje. Eso pienso yo. Tienes buenas ideas, pero la limitante es la línea del lenguaje.
Hi profesor! If you liked regaetton you should check out:
1. Daddy Yankee
2.Wisin y Yandel ( the song bizcochito is a reference from a song from Wisin y Yandel and the way she would have answered to it)
3.Ozuna
3. Cosculluela
4. Tego Calderon (a must)
5. Bad Bunny (if you don’t already know him)
6. Rauw Alejandro (Rosalías boyfriend)
7. Ivy Queen
8. Hector El Father and Tito el Bambino
9. Jowell y Randy
I just loved how you explained it and told that music isn’t just about understanding the lyrics, but it’s an emotion. When I discovered Rosalia I felt excited to see how she was mixing different sounds and genres.
i cannot believe this is song is as good as it is / 10 for la fama
la fama is actually a bachata song, is kinda funny she choose the weeknd because he sings really close to romeo santos and there used to be a small joke presenting the weeknd as a bachata singer, here some links for your amusement 'el fin de semana' : ruclips.net/video/VaabYpBZpw4/видео.html, bachata remix, romeo santos: ruclips.net/video/ka58yy5Sd0Q/видео.html, real bachata, so you can compare the two voices that are ridiculously similar and appreciate bachata. so rosalia made that joke materialize
Es mejor escuchar a la propia Rosalía hablar sobre Motomami :
ruclips.net/video/sRGaRDCNbMc/видео.html
ruclips.net/video/Xnp_8_YbLTs/видео.html
Rosalía es músico, toca el piano y la guitarra, es compositora, es productora, es cantante y bailarina.
Dejen ya de menospreciar su talento brillante.
Y como dice Jenn All, el género de Rosalía es el Rosalío, punto.
ruclips.net/video/E2CO2aKBuoM/видео.html
I really like how in your reviews you show you are willing to admit you don't know everything, I'm glad you listened to this album and wanted to learn about reggaeton and other genres you're not familiar with, a lot of english speaking critics think they know everything or are not even bothered with learning and they show their ignorance. I don't like reggaeton but I love Rosalía's music and I enjoyed a lot of the songs on this album.
unfortunately i associate the dembow rhythm with nothing other than laughing baby bubbling remix
Are you David guetta
Professor.You have said very interestings things I agre in a lot off them. Sorry for my english. But under my point of view you don't need to understand shit to like music. Well I've been listening to rock records all my life even crying in vails without understanding shit. Bucause was when i was 40 when i started to study english.
Thanks for your thoushts.
Billie x arca + an actual good voice