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2 februari 2020

Rosalía returns to Flamenco again

 

 

This is the Rosalía I like the best: doing the Flamenco pop she put herself on the map with. Flamenco music, good or bad, always makes my eyes go moist.

I am not crazy about that voice distortion thing you hear a lot in trashy pop music from the Mediterranean and Arab world, where singers sound like they use that thing people with throat cancer use to talk.

But Rosalía likes bordering on the kitschy, tasteless and that’s what I like her for: she pairs the mundane with the exalted.

The storytelling in this video is something else, by the way. It looks so simple, the cinematography, too, but it’s very intricate, really clever. (PB)

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