"A 1976 interview recording of Smith closes the flamenco ballad "La Yugular." In it, Rosalía sings about a love she'd destroy hell for. Smith, whose transcendent bond with the late artist Robert Mapplethorpe was a rich subject of memoir, urges her to aim higher: "Seven heavens? Big deal. I want to see the eighth heaven, tenth heaven, thousandth heaven. The thousandth heaven. You know, it's like break on through the other side! It's just like going through one door-one door isn't enough. A million doors aren't enough.""
"And I just arrive, and she was so...she had so much light in her face in her eyes in her smile and I couldn't believe...and she just pointed out the dress I remember she said, 'I love your dress'. And then she talked to me about the song and then we started sharing and it was one of the most beautiful things ever to meet her, because I really admire her."
Rosalía's fourth studio album LUX unfolds in four parts and thirteen languages, featuring multiple choirs and an avant‑garde sensibility that propelled it to the charts. The record frames desire and ruin in a sonic scripture that invokes Patti Smith, including a 1976 Smith interview sample closing the flamenco ballad "La Yugular." The sample urges transcendent ambition and cosmic doors beyond measure. Rosalía recounts meeting Smith in a white dress; Smith praised the dress, discussed the song, and shared a luminous, admiring exchange. Patti Smith's earlier groundbreaking work includes the 1975 debut Horses and the memoir Just Kids about her bond with Robert Mapplethorpe.
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