During her first time as Saturday Night Live musical guest, Latin singer/songwriter Rosalía performed two songs from her highly acclaimed album, Lux.
Having trained with a professional ballerina to prepare for the choreography on her tour for Lux, the Spanish-born songstress appeared to sing all of ‘Reliquia’ while on her toes, as shadows of orchestral musicians were cast on the white curtain behind her.
For her second song while dressed in white, the 34-year old performed ‘Magnolias,’ in the rain, against a dark backdrop.
In a five-star review, Rolling Stone said the Lux LP “sounds like absolutely nothing else in music right now, and it’s an album no other pop star could have made.” Following 2022’s Motomami and El Mal Querer four years prior, her latest LP “feels like her most astonishing offer yet, packed with history and decades of training that let her tie classical sounds, opera references, and 14 different languages into one gorgeous, gutting package that feels like a truly timeless work of art.”
Her hour-long, four-movement full length, Rosalía said is “a widescreen emotional arc of feminine mystique, transformation, and spirituality—moving between intimacy and operatic scale to create a radiant world where sound, language, and culture fuse as one.”
Inspired by learning about saints, the Hispanic musician told Billboard;
“Because my background is Catholic from my family, so you understand it through this one [lens].” “But then you realize that in other cultures and other religious contexts, it’s another thing. But what surprised me a lot was that there’s a main theme, which is not fearing, which you can find shared across many religions. And I think that’s so powerful because probably the fears that I have, somebody on the other side of the world has the same ones. And for me, there’s beauty in that, in understanding that we might think that we’re different, but we’re not.”
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Author: Al Dente
Photo: Secretaría de Cultura CDMX