One major surge of adrenaline comes on the standout “La Combi Versace” with Tokischa, the Dominican powerhouse who joined Rosalía on the single “Linda” last year.Īlso See Hear Bianca Love Reminisce About Love on New Single ‘Time’ “Bizcochito” is so playful it sounds like an ice cream truck rolling through the neighborhood, while “Cuuute” is built on intensely high, pitched-up vocals and thuds of dark, dubby basslines. Rosalía sings about an old romance on “Candy,” a featherweight ballad that suddenly ripples with a minimal dembow beat. The tracks are refined and meticulously crafted, yet still teeming with a sense of movement and spontaneity. Throughout her entire career, she’s worked not just as a composer, singer, and lyricist, but as a producer as well, and here, she oversees a master group of collaborators that includes Michael Uzowuru, Pharrell, Tainy, Sky Rompiendo, and El Guincho. Rosalía grabs giant, acrylic-tipped fistfuls of every sound at her disposal - reggaeton, bachata, salsa, electro-pop, and hip-hop, strengthening her mainstream foothold in Latin pop in particular. The song captures the guiding ethos of Motomami: Nothing is sacred. “I’m everything, I transform.” An almost deranged arrangement smashes together a sample of the reggaeton favorite “Saoco,” by Daddy Yankee and Wisin, warped piano chords, a jazz interlude, and blasts of distortion.
Rosalía is uncompromising about who she is and what she wants to do: From the first seconds of “Saoko,” the hydraulic-charged opener, Rosalía declares herself full of contradictions and metamorphoses and impulses: “I’m very much me, I transform,” she sing-raps. What she offers is a dizzying, kaleidoscopic self-portrait - brash and bawdy at some turns, crushingly vulnerable at other points, and completely ridiculous when it wants to be. Rosalía’s brazen new album, Motomami, is a reaction to all that fame, attention, and discord, one that refracts the noise that’s surrounded her for the last few years, bends it to her will and launches it back into the ether.
She became a lightning rod, eliciting conflicting, divergent responses, like a Rorschach test. People pointed out that she was appropriating from cultures that weren’t hers fans defended what they saw as her limitless sense of world-building. She was hard to pin down, and the discourse around her became a constant. Rosalía kept morphing in the spotlight, shapeshifting through singles, pulling from genres like reggaeton and hip-hop. Waves of criticism came with equal force: She wasn’t doing authentic flamenco. There was endless praise: She was a creative genius.
Breaking out of the daily pattern and walking my own path, that is the ‘Outsider’ they pursue.After Rosalía released her 2018 album El Mal Querer, a baroque masterwork anchored in solemn flamenco traditions and glowing pop sounds, the Spanish artist’s world cracked wide open, and everything seemed to rush at her at once. The omnibus-style music video that highlights each member’s individual plot also exhibits a film-like magnificent atmosphere.īTOB is back with even bolder, candid expressions. Black and white teaser images from the ‘Silent’ version radiate nonchalant yet chic, intense and sensual ‘mature sexiness’, whereas color images from the ‘Awake’ version give off a natural and relaxed mood. Moreover, the members’ exceptional visuals stand out in this album. The addictive melody which is easy to sing along to and lyrics that relieve people’s stress from the repetitive cycle of life capture everyone’s ears. While they have been delivering heartwarming comfort and love to many people through their songs until now, this time they are conveying a message encouraging people to overcome troubles and concerns in real life through the title track ‘Outsider’, evoking empathy from those who are fatigued by their daily lives. The title track ‘Outsider’ is a Neo Funk/Neo Soul track which once again engraves the endless musical spectrum of BTOB to the public. With being a special album released by ‘BTOB’, their artistic transformation in the album was made possible with the musical depth and capacity they have. BTOB, who presented performances of various genres on Mnet and exceeded their boundaries, is kicking off their active promotions with Special Album.