{"id":361390,"date":"2025-11-07T04:33:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T04:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/361390\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T04:33:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T04:33:16","slug":"lux-meaning-la-perla-lyrics-and-more-takeaways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/361390\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Lux’ Meaning, ‘La Perla’ Lyrics, and More Takeaways"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tWhen Rosal\u00eda<\/a> announced her album Lux last month, she described the album as the \u201cemotional arc of feminine mystique, transformation, and transcendence,\u201d hinting at heady themes and high-minded production.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Spanish star more than delivered. Lux is out now, showcasing operatic inspirations, collaborations with the London Symphony Orchestra, and careful training Rosalia<\/a> perfected through years of work.\u00a0 Rolling Stone<\/a> lauded Lux as an instant classic, calling it \u201ca truly timeless work of art\u201d that \u201cno other pop star could have made.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIt\u2019s also a deeply personal album. Already, the lyrics in 14 languages have turned stans into forensic analysts as they try to decipher the meaning in each line. The star also alludes to intimate moments in her life: She taps m\u00fasica mexicana\u2019s Yahritza <\/a>from Yahritza y Su Esencia for an unforgiving breakup song titled \u201cLa Perla\u201d and also gets Yves Tumor and Bj\u00f6rk for the left-of-center single \u201cBerghain,\u201d just to name a few features. The music feels like an intense, experimental, dramatic journey, best played in the dark, as she\u2019s suggested. Here are six of our takeaways from Rosal\u00eda\u2019s stunning project.<\/p>\n

\t\tShe embraces her classical training<\/strong>\t<\/p>\n

\n\tRosal\u00eda put her classical music training on full display here. She is a trained conservatory musician who famously studied vocal flamenco performance for at the Catalonia College of Music (ESMUC) in Barcelona. Her program was so prestigious, it usually accepts only one student per year. Her mastery is evident across the LP, from tapping the London Symphony Orchestra to nodding to Vivaldi and Mozart. Rosal\u00eda also extended her vocal prowess by learning more about opera. Weeks before Lux was released, the singer was spotted reading the musical score from the 1900 Puccini opera Tosca. This proved to be an Easter Egg of sorts. \u201cI wanted to make a song that was like my version of what an aria could be,\u201d she told Billboard<\/a> of the track \u201cMio Cristo.\u201d \u2014M.G.<\/p>\n

\t\tShe expands her linguistic horizons, too<\/strong>\t<\/p>\n

\n\tIn an interview for The New York Times\u2019 Popcast,<\/a> Rosal\u00eda revealed she sang in 14 languages on the album. The singer is already fluent in Spanish and Catalan, but familiarized herself with 12 other languages, including English, Latin, Italian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Arabic, Sicilian, Mandarin, Hebrew, Portuguese, and French \u2014 just to name a few. \u201cIt\u2019s a lot of trying to understand how other languages work,\u201d she said of the arduous writing and recording process. Rosal\u00eda turned to both Google Translate and a professional translator to help with phonetics and overall pronunciation, but even so, songs took several takes to get right. She also clarified that the linguistic challenge is \u201cvery much human\u201d and does not use AI. That much is clear by listening to Lux, where the singer seamlessly transitions through each language like a pro. \u2014M.G.<\/p>\n

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\t\tShe savages her ex<\/strong>\t<\/p>\n

\n\tRosal\u00eda eviscerates a narcissistic ex \u2014 \u201ca local disappointment,\u201d \u201ca national heartbreaker,\u201d \u201can emotional terrorist\u201d \u2014 on \u201cLa Perla\u201d with musica mexicana singer Yahritza. The strings swell as she targets a former lover who \u201cspends money he has and doesn\u2019t have\u201d and who doesn\u2019t understand the meaning of \u201cloyalty and faithfulness.\u201d She sings, \u201cHe\u2019s a pearl, no one trusts him\/ He\u2019s a pearl, one to be very careful with.\u201d Many fans think the song is about her ex-fianc\u00e9 Rauw Alejandro, but whether it is or not doesn\u2019t matter; what stands out is how Rosal\u00eda finds revenge over the stunning arrangement. \u2014T.M.<\/p>\n

\t\tShe revives an unreleased, Pharrell-produced song<\/strong>\t<\/p>\n

\n\tFor years, fans begged Rosal\u00eda to release \u201cDe Madrug\u00e1,\u201d the Pharrell-produced track she recorded during El Mal Querer. It never saw the light back then \u2014 until Lux. This time, Rosal\u00eda tweaks the original leaked lyrics, even slipping in a line in Ukrainian that translates to \u201cI am not looking for revenge.\u201d She dials back the overt religious imagery from the earlier version, instead singing in one verse: \u201cThe chains weigh me down \/ from looking back so much \/ there\u2019s no weapon, no Glock or Beretta \/ that can fire and bring you back.\u201d The new rendition also folds in lush strings that help tie it to the album\u2019s symphonic approach. \u2014T.M.<\/p>\n

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\t\tThe physical version of the album offers a different experience\u00a0<\/strong>\t<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile it\u2019s common for artists to add a bonus track or two to their physical releases, Rosal\u00eda chose to add three songs to the vinyl and CD versions of the record, and they\u2019re spread throughout the album: On \u201cFocu \u2018Ranni,\u201d a breakup song from the third movement, she sings in Sicilian. \u201cI\u2019ll never be your half, never your property,\u201d the lyrics go. \u201cI\u2019ll be mine, and of my freedom.\u201d The closing track from the album\u2019s third movement, \u201cJeanne,\u201d is an emotional French-Spanish ballad about self-destruction. The following song, and the opener of the fourth, \u201cNovia Robot,\u201d takes a stark stylistic turn as she tells the story from the perspective of an imaginary sex robot that sells her \u201celectronic puchina.\u201d She sings in Mandarin and later in Hebrew about being a robot girlfriend. \u201cI dress up for God \/ not for you or anyone\u00a0 \/ I only dress up for my God,\u201d she sings. \u2014T.M.<\/p>\n

\t\tShe has thoughts about her wedding<\/strong>\t<\/p>\n

\n\tLast year, Rosalia announced that she was engaged to Rauw Alejandro through the video for their song \u201cBeso.\u201d The couple shared details about the proposal in a GQ video<\/a>, and she even hinted that she had wedding dress ideas in an interview in Spain. However, a few months later, the couple broke up and called off the engagement. On \u201cFocu \u2018Ranni,\u201d one of the songs from the physical album, she works through feelings from walking away from it all. The song alludes to the wedding that never was: \u201cNo one will throw rice up at the sky, no one will bring flowers or get drunk, there\u2019ll be no one to bless a love he\u2019ll never truly know.\u201d She also hints at Rauw by evoking a tattoo she got of his name, singing, \u201cI etched your name on my ribs but my heart never had your initials.\u201d She declares, \u201cI\u2019ll just belong to me and to my liberty.\u201d\u00a0\u2014J.L.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Rosal\u00eda announced her album Lux last month, she described the album as the \u201cemotional arc of feminine…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":361391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,2961,224,5337,162218],"class_list":{"0":"post-361390","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-la","11":"tag-los-angeles","12":"tag-losangeles","13":"tag-rosalia"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115506551485655072","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}