LUX by Rosalia and how she spoke to my soul.

Entry #2 18/11/2025

“Pero mi corazón nunca ha sido mío, yo siempre lo doy, oh / Coge un trozo de mí, quédatelo pa' cuando no esté / Seré tu reliquia”

Rosalía is not just an artist, she is art. That is the only word vast enough to hold her. I was already devoted to her earlier albums, but this one feels like a revelation. It is an album written for me alone, as if a fragment of my soul had been pressed onto a CD. It is myself, and it is the universe, it is God, and it is the echo of everything that moves within me.

The themes she sings about, God, love, saints, devotion, the things that fascinate me the most, the things that speak to the blood in my veins.

This album has held me gently through a difficult process, healing me in ways I didn’t expect.

The first movement opens beautifully, it carries two of my favourite songs, Reliquia and Porcelana, and the masterpiece that is Mio Cristo Piange Diamanti.

“En ti no creo hasta que te derrames en mi pecho / Dentro de mi corazón y mi cerebro / Como un cubata cae mi garganta y se vierte en mi pelo hasta el suelo”

Saints and lovers, faith and self-destruction, the beauty of the album and the idea that sacrifice is the price of love. Love is, at its core, something raw and disgusting, and yet we chase it, we kneel before it, ready to give everything for it. I have always shared this view I have of love, not everyone agreeing with me, but I still believe it is true.

Then comes the song that made me laugh through my tears. La Perla is radiant, mischievous, a beautifully crafted diss track that makes me smile at my own painful memories.

“Nunca le prestes na', no lo devolverá / Ser bala perdida es su especialidad / La lealtad y la fidelidad / Es un idioma que nunca entenderá”

Throughout Lux, Rosalía sings in many languages, but her Spanish pierces me the deepest. Perhaps because it is my mother tongue, perhaps because it wraps itself around my heart in a way no other language can. I imagine this is how others feel when she sings in theirs.

“Tu amor es una avalancha / Cae por su propio peso al existir / Ayer, hoy y mañana / La nieve en la que me quiero hundir”

Religion is complex, and I walk it through my own spirituality, far from the Catholic ideas she talks about, yet the symbols she invokes take me back to my childhood, sitting uneasily on chapel pew and feeling uncomfortable just being there. I have long since healed, and now I see faith with different eyes. This album bridges that distance, pulling my past toward my present, asking me to look inward, to listen. Literally a voice speaking directly into my soul.

Rosalia you are the best !!! Truly. I would love to talk about every single song, De madruga, sauvignon blanc, la yugular, Dios es un stalker... ALL OF THEM. But I would prefer if you experienced it by yourself, but please Please listen to this album, I cannot explain it with words anymore, only your ears can show you what I mean!