Rosalía premieres her new single: 'LLYLM', a rumba in 'spanglish'

Rosalía has a new theme.

Thomas Osborne
Thomas Osborne
30 January 2023 Monday 14:26
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Rosalía premieres her new single: 'LLYLM', a rumba in 'spanglish'

Rosalía has a new theme. A rumba in Spanglish with an unpronounceable title, LLYLM, that the singer's fans can already listen to from this very midnight on Friday, January 27. The song began to circulate on social networks 12 hours before the scheduled time for its launch in Spain. The advance had New Zealand as the culprit. The time difference caused the theme to start sounding in the antipodes and immediately became available throughout the world.

The initials that give the title to the new song by the most international Catalan performer mean Lie like you love me. The chorus reads: "Baby lie like you love me / Lie like you love me” (Baby lies as if you loved me / lies as if you loved me), the artist sings between palms in the fragment.

LLYLM, which lasts just over three minutes, has already been praised by Rosalía's followers with phrases like "but how good is LLYLM" or "it turns out that she has done it again. It's incredible how she manages to merge genres."

In this song, Rosalía mixes Spanish, the language in which she begins to sing, for the chorus part to do it in English and fuses flamenco overtones with electronic touches. It is not the first time that the Catalan dares with English, since she collaborated on the remix of Blinding Lights with The Weeknd and previously did the same with James Blake on Barefoot in the park.

The single has been published through the singer's social networks as planned, creating expectation. On January 19, she shared 15 seconds of the song on her TikTok profile with the chorus part I don't need the honesty, baby lie like you love me, cover me in a dream. I'll be yours or fantasy. I don't need the honesty, baby lie like you love me. Maybe at the end, it becomes real .

After this, on January 23, Rosalía posted a photograph on her Twitter account in which she is seen jumping on the bed wearing pink high-heeled boots. In that tweet, she announced the arrival of the song LLYLM for the 27th of this month, but things seem to have gone ahead and the long-awaited song, a flamenco rumba, is already in the public domain.

Recently, specifically last Wednesday, the artist left behind a few seconds of LLYLM while she was putting on her makeup. This is the third single she has released, after Despechá RMX and Besos moja2, after having released her latest album, Motomami, with which she has toured various parts of Spain and the world.

Rosalía left 2022 with a good taste in her mouth. She released Motomami, her third album; she won for Best Album of the Year at the Latin Grammys, along with four other awards; His previous album, El mal querer, was designated as the tenth best concept album in history and entered the list of the 200 best singers in history, according to Rolling Stone.