Bilal Qureshi

I'm definitely a fan.

I can't say I'm a stan because I don't have a parasocial relationship with her yet, but I will say I'm a huge fan of her music.

Thank you for having us.

It's just so cringe.

But she's not chomping on the gum in her nun era.

She's gone to church, Brittany.

Well, I should just first say that I was not invited by Rosalia or anyone on her team.

I just signed up randomly on her website for what was an advanced listening event.

So yeah, I got to listen to the album in full with about 200 people, and it was small, and she came to speak at the end of it about sort of what the concept had been, and it was...

played on this kind of wall of sound inside a kind of cathedral-like building in Brooklyn.

It was wild because the theme of it is very, and you can see it from the cover image, it's sort of Catholic church, life of a show, church girl maybe is the, maybe a code name for it, but a Catholic church girl.

But the point being that she has this incredibly grand, it's long, it's a concept album that begins and ends with four movements.

And I think as the reviews have attested to it,

I would say it's quite a masterpiece and probably her biggest album.

I would say that before the kind of collision with the idea of like playing Latinidad for gain, in Spain, she was also critiqued for, you know, being a flamenco artist as someone from Barcelona, because she's from Catalonia, that is the music of Andalusia and the Roma and

underprivileged community that has produced that music in the south of Spain.

And there was a question of whether she could and should be the forbearer of this tradition.

So there was the debate about her from the very beginning.

Like, where do you draw the line between being a vulture of another culture or actually being legitimately inspired by it?

I think her response has always been I'm someone who travels and who's very open to lots of ideas and I'm inspired by different things.