From Dua Lipa to Rosalía: The Meme-fication of the Modern Pop Star
Rosalía, the youngest and the most exciting star of her generation, has never been afraid of controversy, but she has never been afraid to use it. At the end of the 1980s, when the disco craze made its comeback, she said that she did not want her songs to be like disco songs, but to be unlike disco songs. That same year, she took the opportunity to release her first album and gave her opinion to her country. In 1989, she released “El Arte de la Música” (The Art of Music), which was written by Pablo Milanés. It is about the Spanish woman and how she makes her life through her music.
She chose to be different. Rosalía is an icon of the new generation and she has never forgotten that. Her voice has not changed, at least not in the last two years – she’s been on tour with a different version of the same song and she has never made the same mistake twice.
“When I say I’m a singer I’m referring to the songs and my performances, as a musician,” she says. “I am a musician, because I was trained by my mother and I’ve always been around music and I’m very good.”
The girl who gave her name to the greatest hits and the greatest pop stars of the 80s, at the turn of the century was, in her words, “an incredible artist”.
“I’m a singer and I’ve always been a singer, that’s the thing I love the most,” she reveals when we talk to her through her producer, Enrique Iglesias, when we sit in his office in Madrid. “On one hand I am an artist and on the other I am a singer, and I am both of
