Bilal Qureshi

I feel like it's been a little more complex than that.

But I think her the critiques of her kind of get into a larger question of like who is guilty of appropriation and who's guilty of being inspired.

I don't see the new album as being, to be honest with you, that big of a problem.

pivot away completely from her sound because there's still hard-driving sections in the album that kind of, I think there's going to be some songs that are going to be kind of bangers and there's some that are more classical.

I mean, it's not like the orchestra is throughout.

She's not singing an aria in this album.

It's still a pop record.

She does.

Yeah.

I mean, the one thing about her records, and I think that's why music critics really like them, is that they're extremely complex and they invite and they reward lots of dissection.

So I think people will nerd out on all the stuff going on because it's a long album and quite a dense album in some ways.

You know, she kind of blew up at a moment that America was having what sort of was described as a second Latin pop wave, post-Despacito and the kind of rise of like Bad Bunny as well at the same time.

And she was sort of marketed into that moment and singing mostly in Spanish because she doesn't sing in English really.

I think it's funny, but I always saw her as a European artist.

When I saw that she had come from Barcelona and studied classical music in Spain, she's very much an internet it girl, too.

It's very high fashion.

It's very glam.

I loved Michelle when you said Miss Worldwide.

That's a big part of kind of her vibe.

It's very much like Euro tripping, like EU resident, flying between Berlin to Spain to whatever.