I didn't think anything of it, he says. And then two years later, we heard some quite bizarre whispers that Rosalia had somehow heard it. It was true: six months ago, Maltese was sent the Spanish pop star's demo of the song. He tried not to get too excited, even when, a few weeks back, a blurred-out photo of a Rosalia album tracklisting appeared online. On the WhatsApp group we were like: I think that says Magnolias!
"It was a happy coincidence that I ended up working on this project," says Bjarnason, whose classical background and past work with artists like Sigur Rós make him well-positioned to straddle the many genres of 'Lux.' "I come from classical music, but I've worked in pop and electronic music and even jazz, so it's easy for me to move from one world to the next."
Although viewers had to wait until almost 1 a.m., New York time, to see the much-anticipated Rosalia on Jimmy Fallon's late-night show on NBC, the singer's 20 minutes on the show were worth it. During them, Fallon paid homage to the creator of Lux. The Catalan singer was the main guest on The Tonight Show, which aired a special episode on Sunday due to a national football league game.
Last year, Taylor Swift counted herself among the "tortured poets," but nowadays she is a self-described "showgirl," having released a short album full of bite-size songs co-produced by the distinguished hitmakers Max Martin and Shellback. The year's biggest new musical act is probably Huntr/x, the fictional girl group from the animated Netflix film "KPop Demon Hunters." When Demi Lovato, the former Disney teen idol, wanted to go back to her roots, she released "Fast," a perfectly superficial club track;
ROSALÍA, the GRAMMY®-winning singer, songwriter, and producer, has released her highly anticipated new album "LUX." This groundbreaking project was recorded with the London Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Daníel Bjarnason, showcasing powerful female voices, including Björk, Carminho, Estrella Morente, Silvia Pérez Cruz, Yahritza, along with the Escolania de Montserrat, Cor Cambra Palau de la Música Catalana, and Yves Tumor.
I think if I made this album, it's because of the love and curiosity, wanting to learn other languages, wanting to understand better the other. Through understanding the other better, maybe you can understand yourself better and you can love learn how to love better. A lot of trying to understand how other languages work. It's a lot of intuition also, and trying to be like, OK, I'm going to just write and let's see how this will sound in another language.
