Rosalía is taking over with her new album Lux, and the album’s stunning intro track is getting tons of attention!
The 33-year-old Spanish superstar kicks off her record with “Sexo, Violencia y Llantas,” and fans have been looking up the lyrics for the beautiful song ever since it was released on Friday (November 7).
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The song was co-produced with Sir Dylan and Noah Goldstein. She also wrote it with David Rodríguez.
Fans might note that the first chords of the song are the same ones used in “Sakura, the last song featured on her last studio album, MOTOMAMI.
The operatic intro reflects the themes explored throughout the album, contrasting the physical world (“sex, violence and tires”) with the spiritual realm.
“In the first, sex, violence, and tires / Bloodshed, coins in throats / In the second, flashes, doves, and saints / Gracе, the fruit, and the weight of thе scales,” she sings (translated to English).
“I remember putting up a world map in my room and marking it with pins, trying to understand where each [saint] was from, what language she spoke, what her story was, and what moved me about it. Then I’d write a song inspired by that. I wanted to find women whose stories were interconnected—unconventional lives, incredible women who were writers, nuns, and poets, who found ways to live differently from what was expected of women in their time. Often, becoming a nun gave them the freedom to pursue education and creative work that otherwise wouldn’t have been possible,” she told Remezcla of the record.
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