Rosalía has teamed up with Björk and Yves Tumor for her epic new single ‘Berghain’ – check it out here.
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The lead single from her upcoming album ‘LUX’, out on November 7, the orchestral ‘Berghain’– taking its name from the iconic techno club in Berlin – has lyrics in German, Spanish and English and heavy classical influences.
Rosalía’s voice is at the forefront in the first half as she sings in German and Spanish over dramatic strings. About halfway through, Björk – who Rosalía also worked with on the 2023 charity single ‘Oral’ – comes in singing, “The only way to save us is through divine intervention,” and Yves Tumor takes over for the outro, repeating, “I’ll fuck you till you love me.”
The German lyrics sung by the choir, “Seine Angst ist meine Angst, Seine Wut ist meine Wut, Seine Liebe ist meine Liebe, Sein Blut ist mein Blut,” translate to “His fear is my fear, his rage is my rage, his love is my love, his blood is my blood.”
The Spanish singer first teased the track earlier this month, sharing piano and vocal scores on her Substack, and yesterday she shared a clip of a black-clothed orchestra following her down the street from the music video.
The video, directed by Nicolás Méndez and filmed in Warsaw, shows the orchestra following Rosalía as she plays a widower struggling with her grief before finding solace in her spirituality.
She announced ‘LUX’, the follow-up to her 2022 album ‘Motomami’, last week. She took over Madrid’s Gran Via, turning the lights off and then back on to reveal her album artwork, livestreaming the moment for her fans across the world.
She shared in August that her next album would not sound like her last LP. She told ELLE: “The rhythm [of the music industry] is so fast. And the sacrifice, the price to pay, is so high. The driving force that leads you to continue making music, to continue creating, has to come from a place of purity.”
NME gave ‘Motomami’ five stars, writing: “Rosalía isn’t so much carving out her own lane as building her own ultra-modern, super-bendy sonic motorway. It’s one you’ll want to hurtle down again and again.”
In the three years since she released ‘Motomami’, her third album, Rosalía shared a collaborative EP with Rauw Alejandro – her then-fiancé – and released the standalone single ‘Tuya’ in 2023, and worked with artists including Ralphie Choo and BLACKPINK’s Lisa.
The singer, who had a cameo in the 2019 movie Pain And Glory, is also set to venture into acting by joining the cast of HBO’s Euphoria for its upcoming third season. She said earlier this year, “This is my first job, eh? Well, I’m learning, I’m figuring it out. I’m trying not to forget my lines, but it’s been really inspiring being beside these amazing actors and actresses. My first time, figuring it out, trying to have fun with it, play around, improvise.”
