What about Rosalía's lyrics

2022-01-19T14:31:39.092Z

The singer published a video with a fragment of a new song and the overreaction of the networks where they ridiculed the verse shows a certain innocence towards the Catalan's marquetinian strategy

Rosalía appears in Baqueira on a chair lift and begins to sing a verse of a new song from her new album, of which we have only heard fragments yet.

The lyrics are as follows: “I love you

ride

, like my

bike

Make me a

tape

, Spike mode.

I beat it, until it was mounted.

Second fuck you, first God.

It's a short video, from TikTok.

Rosalía is happy skiing with her boyfriend, Rauw Alejandro, and dropping pills from her much-announced

Motomami

The topic in question is called

Hentai

, a word that names a branch of manga with explicit sexual content.

.@Rosalia advances 'HENTAI', a song from 'MOTOMAMI', her next album.

pic.twitter.com/6a6t2pIBkA

– Rosalía Sources (@RosaliaSources) January 16, 2022

People have felt terrible this video.

FATAL.

You have to put it in capital letters to measure the reaction of Twitter.

The collective indignation stems from many private hysterias: some can't stand the use of words in English, others think it's in terrible taste, others say he's moving away from flamenco, although it's worth remembering that it seemed to those same people then that it wasn't flamenco was nothing.

Rosalía herself does not give credit and has published a tweet in which she asks what happens to people who are bothered by the

Hentai

lyrics .

The comments are very divided between hate, light hate, love and the language police who want to correct not only the lyrics of the song, but the tweet itself.

The people who are bothering you the Hentai lyrics are you okay?

– ROSALÍA (@rosalia) January 16, 2022

On Twitter, those who respect the laws of spelling and grammar collide with those who embrace the unwritten laws of Internet jargon. A world of

infinite

scroll , of
haters

followers

trolls

; from

DMs

and

favs

; a world of abbreviations and

Spanglish

and altered punctuation. If you talk like this on Twitter, a network in which about 60% of users are over 30 years old, you can imagine what will happen on TikTok, where only 40% are over 30 years old and it is estimated, according to The New York Times, that about a third of users are under 14. It is on that social network where Rosalía published the video that has more than 400,000 likes.

There are many theories to explain the overreaction to the song's lyrics on Twitter. One is misogyny. Several users show fragments of songs by other musicians, such as Bad Bunny or C. Tangana, which do not differ much from those of the singer. Another hypothesis is raised by the photographer Lupe de la Vallina: “Let's see if you don't understand Rosalía's music because it's not for you anymore”. The idea that Rosalía is singing for another generation with other codes, or even that she is focusing on the Latin audience in America is another possibility. Also, and very important, there is a third: that absolutely nothing happens to Rosalía's lyrics. This is the one proposed, for example, by the filmmaker Nacho Vigalondo. "But what's wrong with Rosalía's lyrics, I swear I don't understand ANYTHING anymore," he tweeted.

Let's see if you don't understand Rosalía's music because it's not for you anymore.

– Lupe (@Lupe_) January 18, 2022

Apparently it is quite common on Twitter not to understand, or to pretend that it is not understood, Rosalía's way of expressing herself.

In fact, attacks on her tweets or the use of certain words in her songs are so frequent that she even has her own interpreter, Rosalía's Tweets account explained.

The biography says that it is not “mocking”, but the translations are as literal as: “Rosalía says that she loves you too much” explaining this tweet from the singer: “I love you too much”.

Surely, the lyrics of Hentai

have been perfectly understood

, it is not that difficult.

Surely, there's nothing casual about dropping just that bit of a song from a ski lift.

Surely, Rosalía is rubbing her hands when she sees this commotion, in which she has participated until Amazon Prime tweeting the last sentence of the stanza: "God comes first", accompanying it with the photo of the priest of which the character of Phoebe Waller-Bridge falls in love at

Fleabag

And surely, as other users point out, Rosalía will laugh out loud at her

haters

when she starts billing.

The laughter of I love you ride like a mosquito bites my bike and I put on spray will come when the girl starts earning money by the bucketload with such a jovial tune.

– Cronopia (@LaCrono__) January 17, 2022