Rosalía has confirmed that she is working on her fourth studio album, admitting that during the process she has “changed a lot”.
In a recent cover story with Highsnobiety, the Spanish pop star revealed that she is currently working on the follow-up to her Latin Grammy Award-winning album, 2022’s ‘Motomami‘.
“It’s been a process,” she said. “I’ve changed a lot, but at the same time, I’m still wrapping my head around the same things. It’s like I still have the same questions and the same desire to answer them. I still have the same love for the past and the same curiosity for the future.”
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She also opened up about where she got her ‘Motomami’ aesthetic from, citing her parents and their biker background as inspiration.
“I think what attracted me the most were the motorcycle helmets that I incorporated into the cover, the videos, and the shows,” she said. “I wanted to use everything that was motorcycle equipment and accessories to create the ‘Motomami’ looks, and it’s something quite personal to me because both my father and my mother are bikers, and it’s something [I grew up with] and that I have been around ever since I was very young.”
Rosalía has alluded to her working on an album before. While celebrating her track ‘Despecha’ reaching a billion streams on Spotify (making her the first Spanish artist to achieve the feat), she wrote in a caption: “Hopefully life will allow me to share many more songs. For now, I’m still working on the new album and I can only say that the wait will be worth it.”
She has also been featured on two new singles: last November, she and Björk teamed up on the environmentally-charged ‘Opal’ in hopes of bringing awareness to the cruelty and negative consequences of open-pen salmon farming.
Last month, the Catalonian collaborated with Lisa from BLACKPINK for the electro-pop song ‘New Woman’. The two also released an accompanying music video done by famed director Dave Meyers.
Back in 2022, NME gave ‘Motomami’ full marks, stating it was “40 minutes of the most thrilling, forward-thinking and discombobulating music we’re likely to hear all year.”
