"Rosalía is calling upon God to release her and go help that man instead. The Spanish pop star released her fourth studio album, Lux, early on November 6, and all that it has in common with her previous work is that it's another totally new sound for her. The orchestral popera appears to lament her 2023 breakup with reggaeton singer Rauw Alejandro, which happened shortly after they joint-released Rosalía's last project, RR."
"On the 15-track album, Rosalía uses strings, chanting, and religious iconography even while singing about cars, luxury, and jet-setting. "Sexo, Violencia y Llantas," which translates to "Sex, Violence, and Tires," leads the album in a symphony (literally the London Symphony Orchestra) during which Rosalía yearns for transcendence: "First, I'll love the world / then I'll love God." The world unfortunately includes the man she eviscerates on "La Perla," singing in Spanish, "He can't be trusted / He's a pearl / A nasty piece of work.""
Lux is Rosalía's fourth studio album, released November 6, adopting an orchestral popera sound that diverges from her previous work. The album appears to eulogize a 2023 breakup with reggaeton singer Rauw Alejandro and features songs performed in 13 languages, including Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese, English, Japanese, Latin, Italian, German, Ukrainian, Arabic, Sicilian, French, Mandarin, and Hebrew. The 15-track record blends strings, chanting, and religious iconography with lyrics about cars, luxury, and travel. Specific tracks oscillate between yearning for transcendence, scorn toward a former partner, renunciation of material goods for love, and imaginations of death and last rites.
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