The best songs of the week: Rosalía's postmodern reggaeton
Rosalía strips naked on the cover of her third album, Motomami
There is a month to go before Rosalía's highly anticipated third album
,
Motomami
, is released
, and each new detail that is known further fuels the already enormous expectation.
The second preview of the album,
Saoko
, which the Catalan shared a few days ago, has seduced everyone for its experimentation and because it is absolutely impossible to get it out of your head: the ultra-catchy rhythm of reggaeton, the unexpected jazz piano, a letter between existential metaphysics and
female empowerment
, allusions to god, Greek mythology and drag queens... And Rosalía, who this time sounds so different when she speaks and when she sings and, however, is more her than ever.
The song, as they say, goes like a motorcycle.
And the video clip is full of them.
But, who are Rosalía's
motomamis
?
Saoko
was recorded a few months ago in
Kiev
when the escalation of tensions experienced in recent weeks had not yet placed Ukraine in the eye of the international political storm.
Before Vladimir Putin threatened to invade the country, Rosalía and a large group of
stunt
riders
traveled
to the Ukrainian capital to shoot a video clip full of
speed, bikinis and capers
on wheels, with an aesthetic to the
Fast & Furious
(night police chase included) but in
a 100% female version.
Directed by the Frenchman Valentin Petit,
Saoko
drinks the
suburban aesthetics
with which Rosalía conquered the world four years ago -what in
Badly
were trucks, here are Yamaha R6 and Honda CBR 600- but if he will be remembered for something, it is for the spectacular
girl gang
of bikers and their amazing tricks on the Podilsko-Voskresenskyi bridge in Kiev.
Emerging stars and established legends of female
stunt riding
have participated in the video , a relatively emerging phenomenon (the motor world has never shone especially for its equality, although things have changed rapidly in the last decade) that does not stop growing and adding fans. .
Rosalía has managed to bring together the Czech Katerina Jandová, the North American
Ashley Lammela
, the Swedish
Sara Aydin
(an influencer, with more than 600,000 followers on Instagram) and the Ukrainians
Emma Serdiuk and Alona Shevchenko
, the first champion in the women's motorcycling category of the country in 2011.
In
Saoko
, by the way, Rosalía is heard singing
«fuck the stylist»
, but nothing is further from reality: the person in charge of styling the video is
Haley Wollens
, one of Chloë Sevigny's favorites and the culprit that the artist and her Amazons wear pieces specially made for the occasion by
Mugler
(the guru of empowerment via the corset and latex), a vintage top by Jean Paul
Gaultier
(which Kylie Minogue already wore in
All the Lovers
) and also Ukrainian brands such as the lingerie firm Zhilyova, responsible
for Rosalía's
transparent kimono .
The aesthetic is very 2000 (or 2YK, as they say now), it has something of Harmony Korine's
Springbreakers
(those reflective bikinis) and a lot of Japanese anime: beyond Akira, motorcycle helmets with cat ears (one of the most successful models of the Russian firm
Nitrinos
) and the long pink pigtails a la
Sailor Moon
are a version of
cuteness
brought to the suburbs.
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