The Life of Rosalía 

And her singing vocal notes sounds beautiful😍

YES! I fell in love with flamenco because of her

Lots of people play flamenco music in spain.

@@robertsteinberger5667 Nah, actually not.

@@luchia_say_shutup i’ve literally spent my entire life in spain and yes they do.

@@benaferiel9230 soy española, además andaluza, pregunto, (obviamente no va a malas, es una conversación normal), ¿dónde has visto a la gente escuchando flamenco? si eso alguna canción similar al reggaetón, mi entorno nunca lo ha escuchado (a excepción de los gitanos)

Son solo modas, es dificil de creer que ahora tengan que discutir por nimiedades

La copla no es un palo del flamenco. Hay copla que es andaluza pero no toda la copla es andaluza o tiene influencia del flamenco. O al revés que el flamenco use la estructura de la copla pero no es un palo como tal.

New songs! I love motomati especially la fama, cuuuuuuute, and Sakura!

🦋🦋🦋

And that using cultural appropriation is successful

You sound like someone who does not have a sacred and significant culture. You also sound like someone whose culture hasn't been denigrated or demeaned. Maybe when you have experience with such things, you can speak on this. Until then, ask yourself why you even bothered to make your comment when you have no idea what you're talking about.

@Zahra Ismail Ok, smartypants, so you think that nobody but African Americans should be able to play Rock n Roll, Jazz, Swing, Blues, Techno. In your world view, there should be no Beatles, Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Dave Matthews, Dua Lipa, Keith Urban, U2.... That's all cultural appropriations to you, and these people are disrespecting the original creators of that style of music.

There is no such cultural appropriation because what she does is already part of her culture, the Spanish culture which is an ancient culture, although she is Catalan she can sing flamenco because flamenco is Spanish, with Andalusian origin (not gypsy) and Andalucía is part of Spain, also does not say a word in Calé, but in fact anyone can do it and it´s already done for example in Japan, which has given very good singers and dancers.

@@zahraaesmael342 There is no such cultural appropriation because what she does is already part of her culture, the Spanish culture which is an ancient culture, although she is Catalan she can sing flamenco because flamenco is Spanish, with Andalusian origin (not gypsy) and Andalucía is part of Spain, also does not say a word in Calé, but in fact anyone can do it and it´s already done for example in Japan, which has given very good singers and dancers.

@@iuliuscaesar9078 the point is that gitanos are treated as 2nd class. nobody who lives in Spain or who has visited Spain can ever deny that. There's a glorified flamenco singer here and there every few years, but they're the only ones out of the entire population who are "respected". Why is it fair to caricature someone's culture and be inauthentic? She is Catalan and Andulisians are not entirely Spanish as history shows, which is why they were racialised in the first place. Calling people gypsies is rude. Gitanos have their own distinctive culture and their music literally is rooted in a place of hurt and extremely deep emotion that the regular Spaniard doesn't relate to and therefore cannot replicate- which is WHY gitanos who sing flamenco are revered to begin with. There is a problem with making money off of someone else's culture but not speaking on how those people are being oppressed and how those people cannot make the same money from THEIR own music. Rosalia is only recently crediting certain elements of flamenco now that she's been called out around the world. There was a time where she tried to lie and say she wasn't inspired on certain songs. I am glad that authentic flamenco singers who want to protect their cultural heritage and speak up on disrespect are doing so. Good for them. You clearly don't understand how ethnicity and tribalism works. Somehow everyone treats Gitanos badly until it comes to the music then suddenly everyone can be involved and embrace it, right? But nobody wants to talk to them unless they're singing or dancing. Otherwise they're left on the outskirts, often mocked and even treated as less than others. People should not be allowed to be so selective about when they want a certain group of people around.

It's not her culture. PERIOD. If Andulusian immigrants had not moved into her neighborhood as a child she probably wouldn't have ever known about Flamenco. That's like me taking up Indian Classical music + dance because a few Indians moved across the street. Now she's appropriating Afro Latino culture (reggaeton, cumbia, samba, bachata, dembew etc.). What's her excuse? She grew up hearing Daddy Yankee on MTV? lmao . The problem is why can't someone who was actually born and raised in the Andulsian/Flamenco tradition, trained through bloodline and not just through schooling (gitanas like Alba Flores or María José Llergo ) receive the same fame and support as Rosalia? Rosalia is promoted because she is a white Spaniard who makes "colored people" music more palatable to Spanish & Latino audiences.

​@@purposepit7473 And? What's the problem of making it more palatable? If you make music for a niche audience, it eventually dies. Thanks to this 'palatability' more people will look into more flamenco music, perhaps develop a taste for it and know about it. If you want to keep alive what you call 'flamenco puro', you've gotta introduce people to it as it isn't something easy to listen from the beginning, especially if coming from a very different culture. You can't put people to read El Quijote as it was written in the 16th Century. You need to adapt it, widespread it, and make it approachable. They'll become interested and most likely they'll want to read the original. Like it or not, this is how it works and this is how you keep cultural manifestations alive. For example, thanks to the white British blues musicians from the 60s and 70s who are accused of stealing songs, I knew about the 30s and 40s first blues made by black people. Decades go by, times change, generations change. It's delusional intending to make people listen to music from 100 years ago (especially when trends change so quickly nowadays due to the economy we have) without anything that makes it easier for them. It's the same for classic music. So so much effort put into 'modernising' classical music so that people develop an ear for the original one. It does work.

@@yos.5684 Oh please - don't compare Don Quijote (which is a book - meaning it requires mastery of Spanish or translation in order to be understood) to flamenco music (which is a sonic experience that requires no understanding of the language to literally feel it in your bones). Flamenco wasn't a dying art form before Rosalia. She's not some archaeologist that pulled it up from the Earth like a fossil. For decades, Spanish cities have been filling up their tablaos with eager tourists, & many of these attendees didn't have any command of the Spanish language but they were there for the authentic experience. If they wanted watered down and "palatable" they could go to a tapas bar in their home country, order a "watered down" sangria and call it a day. Don't insult people's intelligence or taste. People open minded enough to be interested in world music & travel don't need watered-down "palatability", they want authenticity. Again, what is stopping Spain from upholding a dark skinned gitana artist to similar heights of Rosalia? There are countless gitana Flamenco artists who have devoted themselves to modernizing this art form but they just aren't given the tools and access to do so. Why can't they ascend to the highest ranks representing their own culture? Why does Flamenco need a white face and someone regionally and linguistically removed from the art to make it "approachable"? Jazz, Hip Hop, R&B, Rock & Roll, Blues, Country, samba, Reggaeton, Dembow, Bachata etc. are all black art forms that were demonized until non-blacks started appropriating them. If you think this "coincidence" is a sudden case of modernization and globalism - think again. Approachable and palatable are just code words for - white-washed. Just say you don't want to see "darkies" on stage.. I'd at least have more respect for your honesty.

@@yos.5684 thank you for this analysis, because people want to gatekeep everything in its ancient and old forms. People and time change, therefore so has the consumer and the audience. If she weren’t from Spain it would be a much more understandable controversy.

if they're talking about flamenco appropriation, ok, it's still spanish culture she could say... but it hits different when the colonizer starts to receive all the highlights for making the same music of the people they oppressed for centuries (cause she's into reggaeton and bachata right now). idk, it gets me divided because I loved the album, but the social problematic behind is way too symbolic to not observe

Lo lograrás!

@Blanca Castorena 🥰🥰Si!!

Yes

Sadly she went from doing are to make latino trash music

she said Dominican and Puerto Rican were her biggest influences, along with reggaeton, in her new album motomami because she got inspired when traveling to around Latin America. so what you thought makes all the sense

This is exactly why it's cultural appropriation.

@@zulenyacosta2656 So, do you believe that artists shouldn't be inspired by other's art? Should rap be only expressed by African Americans and no other culture whether they be black or not like black Europeans or black South Americans? What about famous music artists that sample tracks from others who do not share the same "culture?"

@@zone07 do you happen to know how many Puerto Ricans and Dominicans are crucified on a daily basis for being "barrial and/or vulgar"? Just because Reggaeton is musica Urbana? And because according to other Spanish speakers we don't speak the "correct" Spanish. Almost every video of DRs & PRs showing their art through rap, trap, dembow and Reggaeton- have you noticed the amount of hate? Or do you just refuse to see it because its easier to pretend it's not happening. Yet, when someone who is NOT Puerto Rican and/or Dominican does the same exact thing. Including colombusing our slang, NOONE has not one negative thing to say. BadBunny, Anuel, Rene, Yailin, El Alfa, La Perversa, Tokischa, etc etc etc etc they are called out on a daily basis because their is music is 💩 & 🗑 . I stopped counting the times people say things like "that's not Spanish we don't understand it. Can you translate it into spanish? Puerto Ricans and Dominicans have butchered our Español blah blah blah"...... But when karolg , rosalia, jbalvin, feid (whatever his name is), etc etc etc all of a sudden colombus dembow, rap, trap and Reggaeton it becomes ART. The information is literally in your face. Yall just refuse to admit it. Because "I'm not a racist and/or prejudiced. You're hurting my feelings *insert clear tears* so that the world feels sorry for them. Because they "didn't Columbus our music and slang. They were simply "inspired". 🙄

La Diosalía!

The beginning of Colosso by Little Stranger and Wrekonize sounds a lot like that

*española

PEÑA PEÑA ...JAJAJAJ .pues claro

WTF 😂 really? Omg the hidden racisms that you have hahahahahahahah

​​@@homebaddielame the awards organizer, not her. She did not go and say, "ah, voy a darme la otorgar de Latino!" (Oh, I will give myself a Latin award!) People need logic instead of just judging.

I wish that she would go back to her original style too. And also collabing with artists from different countries in Europe/North Africa would be interesting. to experiment with their traditional music too

@@transportation1013 Back to what original style? To El Mal Querer, to Los Ángeles or even before her first LP when she was singing in Kejaleo or in bars and clubs?

@@lolomanolo666 back to all of it basically. Flamenco. Her music has gradually gotten farther away from flamenco with each album which i dont like.

and if they're talking about flamenco appropriation, ok, it's still spanish culture she could say... but it hits different when the colonizer starts to receiving all the highlights for making the same music of the people they oppressed for centuries (cause she's into reggaeton and bachata right now). idk, it gets me divided because I loved the album, but the social problematic behind is way too symbolic to not observe.

@@TUXAUA I am sure the incas were playing bachata and reggaeton, jajaja

@@lolomanolo666 their descendants certainly are... the marks of colonization still persist and what is understood by latino is an indigenous racial identity, but OK, people ain't ready for that conversation jajaja i like to observe that political background but, in the end of it all, we better not to create borders on music 🤷🏽‍♂️

@@TUXAUA Yes, the descendants created those genre, but they are descendants of several origins. Telling that using bachata o reggaeton is a cultural appropriation is a too far stretch.

Anaymi, you seems you do not know the history of Spain and the discrimination of the roma people. It is a non sense to say that because the colonisation of America is in the history, there is no cultural appropriation possible inside Spain. The accusation of cultural appropriation can have merit if it was the first time that a non roma was using flamenco, which is not the case.

you have no idea 🤣