Rosalía is continuing to impress audiences worldwide with her multilingual new album, Lux.
“La Yugular” is one of the many standouts from the newly released record, and it features the singer delivering lines in Arabic!
Keep reading to find out more…
The track was recorded alongside Sir Dylan, Noah Goldstein, and Elliott Kozel.
“I’ve experienced different things through all these years of traveling and being exposed to other music and being exposed to other cultures. And all of that I think I carry with me with so much love, and I’m like, I want this to be part of this album. I exist in the world and the world exists within me. I feel like hopefully my love is plural and it’s infinite. The same way I’m here and everything can be here and how can I explain this in a song? And I tried. That’s what you can find in ‘La Yugular’ That’s what it’s about. My favorite art, it’s where it’s a little bit blurry — the personal and the universal,” she explained to NPR of the song’s meaning.
“That’s the inspiration in that song [the idea of we’re all one soul]. That’s studying from Islam and being like, okay, so that’s the foundations of it. How can I explain these on a song? I’m going to put these ideas, so beautiful, on a song,” she continued.
“The language, I find it’s so interesting how much the air [is] important. At the end of the day, the breath, that’s where it all starts. That’s why in the beginning of the album, after that piano intro, the beginning is a breath. That’s the first human sound on the album. I was struggling with recording in Arabic because I’m not used to [using] my throat like this, to make this space, and I don’t even think that I got it right but I tried. That was my love letter to Arabic.”
The end of the song features audio from an interview with Patti Smith with her band Radio Ethiopia, conducted while she was on tour in Europe in 1976 in Sweden.
She’s discussing The Doors‘ hit song “Break On Through (To the Other Side).”
“Seven heavens, big deal. I wanna see the eighth heaven. Tenth heaven. 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,” she says.
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