Rosalia - Berghain (ft. Björk & Yves Tumor)

[NewUsername 11,524]

Beautiful and interesting MV, was intrigued by the song up until Björk's part. Afterwards, not that much.

[insight 2,463]

Masterpiece.

This shits all over the Ophelia music video.

[Morphine Prince 107,025]

Sat down and watched the video a couple more times.

Love the theme of trying to mend a broken heart and then failing. Classic heartbreak. 

[Anderson123 39,028]

Record and Album of the Year coming next next Friday.

[llemesm 1,657]

EVERYTHING! 

[iAmToton 24]

I think Rosalía uses the name of the famous Berlin techno club as a metaphor for an absolutely toxic relationship — one dominated by exclusivity, judgment, darkness, intensity, hedonism, and ultimately, the loss of identity.

It feels like a prelude to something greater, an introductory movement before the arrival of light (LUX). The value that this light gains after escaping from the shadows.

Berghain is known for its exclusivity. Getting in is often arbitrary, completely dependent on the bouncer’s judgment at that moment. You can have all kinds of expectations, prepare yourself, imagine what you’ll do — but until your turn comes, you never know if you’ll be allowed inside.

Did Rosalía feel worthy of this relationship? Up to the level of her partner? Will she get in? Will she change, adapt, do whatever it takes to belong?

That doubt already marks a deep imbalance, one that will later culminate in the total loss of ego.

Once inside, the darkness of an industrial space greets you with the pounding intensity of techno — a genre built on repetitive, relentless beats. A cold relationship, perhaps? One marked by violence? Something stuck in a loop?

Berghain’s atmosphere is well-known for being hedonistic and transgressive, a space where many taboos — especially sexual ones — are released and lived freely. Maybe she’s talking about sex as the only validation for a kind of love that isn’t returned.

She sings she’s “sugar for the coffee”, someone sweet melting for someone bitter…

The loss of identity, giving in to that coldness, overcompensating, dissolving the self and becoming the other:

“His pain is my pain, his fear is my fear…”

“I know how to disappear; when you arrive, I’m already gone.”

 

There are also visual clues in the music video that reinforce (or at least seem to reinforce) these ideas.

Rosalía enters a dim apartment dressed in black. Only when she opens the curtains does the music begin — light, the central theme of her album, revealing an orchestra around her playing a frantic symphony. It could symbolize that moment when, alone and away from the person who’s been draining us, our thoughts start to flow — wild, intense, yet more meaningful than anything that emerges when we’re under someone’s manipulative influence, when they break the melody of our own mind. 

In that intimate moment, she takes off her high-heeled sandals with crucifixes — both symbols of repression, pain, and suffering. She removes her jewelry, heart-shaped ornaments likely given to her by that person, and decides she must let them go.

She dips a sugar cube in coffee, licks it, and the music slows down. She starts to find peace in the ordinary solitude of her routine, now dressed in white, singing again that her lover’s pain is her own — his fears too — showing she’s lost her identity. Then, in a medical room connected to an ECG machine (a broken heart), she realizes what’s happening as she sells the heart-shaped jewel — which turns out to be worthless.

That realization — that painful awakening — is the heart of the song. She’s not yet ready to face it, and it feels like only a divine intervention could help her through it.

When she returns home, she finds her door open. Her home becomes a dark forest, and she, like Snow White — a symbol of innocence — attracts animals (her own inner nature) that sings to her: “a divine intervention will be needed.” She doubts whether she’ll be able to leave that relationship.

Rosalía wakes up after seeing a deer bleeding from its eyes — it was all a dream. She remembers the orchestra and the animals in the dark  as a male voice shouts: “I’ll f** you until you love me.”*

 

Haven’t we all been there? That moment when your heart is completely trampled, when everything feels like a senseless nightmare — endless arguments followed by wild sex, violence, tears,  pain…

But once we let the light in, everything is revealed.

And then… stream LUX! 😉

[Wolf Boy 3,341]

Oh it’s so good! 

[Luv u Sum 2,409]

and if i said this is the best song ive ever heard.....

[elijahfan 26,521]

More on the topic of the song, I guess it indicates that the album will have aspects of a breakup record. This song is like Hentai's tragic sequel - I guess the album will tell her journey back towards the light. What a way to start, tho... I'm still processing.

[Sestri Levante 1,099]

I still haven't processed this, holy ****. I'm at loss of words. 

[hamartia 1,597]

Hot freaky b*tches will always win 

[Morphine Prince 107,025]

I am not mentally well the way I have this on repeat and can’t stop 

[Sestri Levante 1,099]

34 minutes ago, Morphine Prince said:

I am not mentally well the way I have this on repeat and can’t stop 

Exactly, I cannot get over this. I have no clue how to function normally again after this. Rosalia has never failed me, but HOLY HELL I didn't expect to be this mind-blown. Next week can't come soon enough. 

 

[Ladle Ghoulash 27,727]

Beautiful arrangement, stunnin’.

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[Cssomeone 1,661]

The vocals, the instrumental, the production, the visuals, the features 

This woman never ceases to amaze me. I wish more female artists in music nowadays would be as innovative and willing to change and take risks as her.

Another Álbum del Año at the Latin Grammy?