Rosalía's 'Motomami' is the best album of the year... so far

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When the end of 2022 arrives, the lists of the best of the year will begin to come out, and it is not necessary to be a haruspex with a crystal ball to know that

's third album ,

will be among the highest positions in that classification.

The main question, then, would be to anticipate exactly where he will end up when the deadline closes, in a time of stiff competition for attention, heightened emotions and

.

Paraphrasing Florentino, we should tell all the fans to be calm, because things are looking good.

And if you're a naysayer, get ready to rage more.

If we stick to the most credible meter, the

website -which establishes its rankings by consensus, unlike Spanish politics-, we could even bet heavily that Rosalía can be crowned in December as the best artist of this exercise.

After May -one of the months, along with October, in which the majority of important releases are concentrated-,

is in first place in Anglo-

: it accumulates a 94 -out of 100- score from 16 critics, all positive, and has an 88% acceptance of the public who votes on the web, clearly above the rapper

, the R&B star The Weeknd, or the indie singer-songwriter Kevin Morby.

The reasons for the fascination are diverse.

In the English newspaper

, the critic Neil McCormick maintains that Rosalía is the latest expression -after the cases of

of the globalizing phenomenon that has broken the Anglo-Saxon hegemony among popular taste, and that has rewarded artists Korean and Spanish speakers.

«

singer ,

the Spanish siren Rosalía speaks the lingua franca of modern pop, and it is not English », maintains the newspaper.

magazine ,

Jem Aswad maintains that Rosalía has been crowned the first of her class.

"There have been many songs and albums that are in this line of innovation between pop and hip hop, but we can hardly think of one that revolves around a singer with

."

The main assets of

, for the critics, would be in the courage to seek an international audience and still avoid English, plus the risk of mixing styles, with an experimental background that unifies the confluence between

Cover of the album 'Motomami'.S

"It's weird to hear an album that's so experimental, that aspires to stretch across so many genres and wants to play with shapes, and that's exactly what it ultimately achieves," says Julianne Escobedo on Pitchfork, which gave her Motomami an 8.4

how demanding the web is, it's a lot-, in addition to the

In another important portal, Allmusic.com, the collaborator Thom Jurek points out that Rosalía fits like a glove in the aesthetic that, little by little, is defining this time.

“A positive quality of

has been the rapid dissolution of cultural divisions.

The idea of ​​duality is giving way to more fluid manifestations of identity in human interaction and artistic expression.

And no album excels at this like

does ."

The worst of the recorded reviews, on the website The Quietus, leaves Rosalía with a seven,

.

Even when the album doesn't convince, she has never disappointed.

Therefore, many masterpieces have to come out in the next six months for the first place to be in danger.

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