Andaba Yu, like a vulgar fan, listens and evaluates LuxRosalía’s last album, which took three years to reach our listeners, when the regional, but controversial, controversy erupted without having had time to enjoy it.
In this case, those who understand will appreciate its importance. The album presents, among his various collaborative works, a distinct presence of Escolanía de Montserrat in many of the songs on the album. It seemed that after any hint of religious mysticism had disappeared, Rosalia wanted to talk to them. “We accept this project because, as she herself explained, Rosalía speaks about the experience of God. Always discerning God is a very blessed thing, and she also does it through music.” Han confirmed from the chorus. From the beginning, the argument can be said to be reasonable: resorting to a group of sacred music singers, to collaborate on a recording with a clear Sufi spirit.
You are bad. Come on, not everyone enjoyed this collaboration. On the same day the record has since come out Rac1 o Catalunya Radio, Amen from several Influencers Independent lovers raised the cry to the heavens: How can Rosalía be allowed to rely on an icon like the Montserrat School for collaboration on her album… In Castellano! Y ¡Cómo, la Escolanía, the spiritual symbol of Catalonia, agrees to collaborate with the artist “castellanocanante”! Because that’s the problem, my friends, that the school agreed to sing in Spanish, and that’s “cultural betrayal.”
Although I decided that it did not seem relevant because on other occasions, the school was sung in Latin, English or German, the problem was that it was sung in Spanish.
I’m grateful for the role of the script, even if it never occurred to me that something so stupid could get to this point, for several reasons. Firstly, because it seemed to me nonsense similar to what I imagine when today’s parents launch a campaign against the rock band Supa de Cabra, which also dared to sing in Castellano, calling them traitors and inviting them to go to … Spain. The group’s leader, Gerard Quintana, in the 1990s had to come out and complain about “the same rights as a Spanish or foreign artist, without mentioning the language in which he can express his art”, lamenting: “Although it is not clear, we have to continue to think that something is not going well in our time, that we still lack a little maturity. A maturity that, almost three years later, we seem not to have acquired.”
I’m also grateful because, it’s never a bad thing to know the story, so no one hyperventilates worrying that there is a funerary complex on Montserrat dedicated to the Tercio de Requetés de Our Señora de Montserrat, the military group that supported the uprisings and was created after the failure of the Estado del 36 coup in Catalonia. As they did, they paved the way a year ago in facing the first sodomy conviction against a Montserrat monk.
It’s rare, but I have the feeling that, even if you are able in Catalonia, you can be an anomaly and you should be wanted, without it being a condemnation from within the spheres of Catalan independence which, in reality, is a political corpse.
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