Spanish superstar Rosalía just launched her new album’s first single Berghain. The multifaceted artist did it again by surprising everyone with her newest project. Her fourth studio album Lux will come out November 7, 2025.
Just a week after the album’s announcement that she launched its first single, the already it-song Berghain. Rosalía’s latest tune is not close to anything in the music industry at the moment. People online noticed that this new sound is very similar to her second studio album El mal querer, which served as her Music Degree thesis.
Berghain is composed of an orchestral base, which is mainly formed by strings, dramatic percussion and operatic and theatrical elements. While it has classical features, it still has a contemporary feeling thanks to its production and electronic ambiance. Furthermore, its lyrics are written in three different languages: Spanish, German and English. The Spanish artist admitted that her new album will contain 13 different languages.
“Never before has Rosalía flexed her classical training this hard: composing in three languages, turning in a performance that’s almost all coloratura. Berghain feels as ambitious as Lux’s supposed four-movement structure, cantering from violin fireworks à la Vivaldi’s Winter to a pummeling Rite of Spring grand finale. Yves Tumor is here—to usher us into the final act—as is Björk, whose own gale force presence threatens to knock the song on its side like a two-dimensional façade.” – Pitchfork’s review of Berghain.
On the other hand, Berghain’s lyrics are melancholic and religious mix. Rosalía plays with the duality between vulnerability and power, the sacred and carnal. There is an example of this in “Solo soy un terron de azucar”, versus a harsher line in “I’ll f*** you till you love me”.
Her inspiration
In her interview on the New York Time’s Podcast, Rosalía talked about her inspiration while making the album. Moreover, she explained whereas her previous album Motomami had a more masculine energy and reggaeton-like as opposed to Lux being more feminine.
“The main inspiration is feminine mystique, so then for sure there’s more feminine energy. And also the idea of, ser un receptáculo — being a vessel. I was reading the other day, this woman, Úrsula [K. Le Guin] says that maybe the first cultural device in history was not a weapon — it was not something sharp to kill something. Maybe it was a vessel, something where you can gather things?”
“And so she was saying that there’s a difference between masculine writing and feminine writing: Masculine writing is about the hero, the triumphs of this hero. And if the hero is not in the story, then it’s not a good story. It’s all about the conflict in the narrative. Feminine writing, it’s more about an ongoing process. It’s not about the climax and then the resolution. It’s about maybe a person with delusions and transformations and all the things that this person has to lose. It’s not about me, me, I, I.”
