Rosalía Is Right: We Should Be Challenged More By the Pop Culture We Consume

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In an interview with the Popcast duo of The New York Times , the Spanish singer Rosalía was asked if she thought she was demanding a lot from her audience with Lux , her fourth album. It’s the most critically adored release of 2025 by far, a neo-classical art-pop hybrid sung in 14 languages with influences taken from the lives of various female saints. There is truly nothing else like it out there, and that’s saying something coming from an artist whose flamenco roots have led her to be one of modern music’s most daring experimentalists. Lux is startling but it’s also a challenge, as Popcast noted. In response to their question, she a

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