The singer Rosalía and her partner Rauw Alejandro have revealed that the three songs on the EP on which they have worked together, “RR”, can be defined as “exotic”, in the sense that “we would not be expected to do that “, among them a bolero and two other songs that they think will sound in discos.
This is the first collaboration between the Catalan vocalist and the Puerto Rican reggaeton artist, who announced a week ago that the musical project, with the songs “Beso”, “Vampiros” and “Promesa”, will be released on March 24.
In a joint interview with the youtuber Ibai Llanos, the artist couple revealed that they listen to a lot of boleros at home and that it is a genre that has marked them a lot in their relationship, which is why they decided to include a song inspired by “RR” in this kind of romantic song.
A song, Rauw Alejandro has indicated, to listen to “on a Sunday afternoon, quiet, at home”, while the other two songs have “more energy” and one of them even, he has predicted, is going to ‘perrear’ in the discos.
Rosalía understands that the songs have to do with their relationship, “like phases of love”, and thus one of them “has more to do with the past, another with the present and another with the future”, so she considers that ” they do have structure” between them.
There are three songs composed between the two artists, in which they have recognized that sometimes they had differences in terms of musical aspects, although not so much in the lyrics.
Rauw Alejandro has pointed out that working with Rosalía “is difficult, she is a bit intense”, while the Catalan has indicated that, although she ‘flows’ more, the singer also “has her vision, her way of doing things, her way of writing, her style. And it has character.”
To this, Alejandro has replied that Rosalía “is a great producer and has a very clear vision. I defend my things to the last, but I have a limit. And if that limit reaches, then I tell her ‘do what you want’. Always she wins in the end.”
Until now, Rosalía and Rauw Alejandro had collaborated informally, but they understood that the time had come, after three years of relationship, to formalize a collaboration with these three songs, one for each year they have been together.
Asked about how they carry this relationship, Rosalía has admitted that at first she thought that Rauw Alejandro “was in a way”, a bit of a ‘bad boy’, “and then you surprised me”.
“I had lost faith in masculinity and it was meeting you and the situation changed a bit for me,” said Rosalía, who explained that “the men around me felt that they were very ’emotionally unavailable’, and (with you it was the first time) that I did not feel that, I felt that you were not afraid of loving and being loved”.
Rosalía has also revealed that, when she is at home with her family, they speak Catalan and that Rauw Alejandro “has learned a little, for survival, of course,” she said.
To this Alejandro has exemplified that “grandma and everyone are speaking in Catalan and I am sitting there on the sofa…”.
For her part, Rosalía has recognized that in Puerto Rico they also use some words that are difficult for her to understand, which does not mean that, when she was there, “I really liked it and I want to go back.”
At the end of the interview, Rauw Alejandro and Rosalía have confessed that they have their respective names tattooed.
