i finally listened to EL MAL QUERER in 2022!! ~ Rosalía Reaction ~

Hey guys, I'm back with another video!! So, in todays video I sat down to react to critically acclaimed album "El Mal Querer" the second studio album from Rosalía. After doing my video on her new album "Motomami" I was so intrigued to hear more of her work, and a lot of you guys suggested I listened to this project. So here we go... enjoy xoxo
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[@morriganfan]

Yes pleasssssse... their visuals are sickening, do them too!!!

[@isaacgarcia2101]

Ok, so here's some context on the lyrics cause it's definitely something that you need to take into account when you listen to this album. It's a concept album and yes, is based on Flamenca, a novel from the XIV century. It tells a story: «Malamente» (Cap.1: Augurio): "Malamente" does not have an exact translation in english, in the context of the album means something like "Badly loved" or "loved in the wrong way". "Augurio" means Omen. So this songs is sort of like a premonition she has when she meets this man, all the bad feelings she gets and even the omen of a gypsy. The video is full of symbolism from Rosalia's background and Flamenco. «Que no salga la luna» (Cap.2: Boda): "don't let the moon rise" - (cap 2: Weeding). You can guess they married. Is a typical flamenco wedding and the groom sings about how lucky he was to find her, he says: "like the blades of a knife, her eyes shined when I gave her the ring". Only in a small verse you hear the bride trying to pick a diamond ring and the chorus claims: "If there is someone here who opposes, don't raise your voice. Don't let the bride listen. Don't let the moon rise, it doesn't have to". By the end the groom sing: "whether she wants it or not, she will be with me 'til she dies". The music almost imitates a funeral march. «Pienso en tu mirá» (Cap.3: Celos): "I think of your look" (or more like "I think of your eyes" (Cap.3: Jealousy). The whole song is from the POV of the husband. "I'm scared when you go out smiling on the street cause everyone can see the dimples on your face. And of the air when it blows, for lifting your hair. And of the gold that dresses you for being tied to your neck. And from the sky and the moon, cause you want to look at them. Even from the water you drink when it wets your lips". The chorus gives name to the song: "I think of your look, your look aiming a bullet to the chest". The video is really beautiful. «De aquí no sales» (Cap.4: Disputa): "You don't leave from here" (Cap.4: Dispute). My favorite one. Talks about the violence in the relationship. Rosalia said she was almost embarrassed and scared to release this song for how violent it felt. The instrumental part feels almost like we are witnessing the dispute. "You don't get out of here. It hurt me way more than is hurting you. Make no mistake with me. With the back of the hand I'll make it very clear to you", it's sang like a threat... That part always give me chills. In the video you can see her drowning in a pit filled with engine oil. «Reniego» (Cap.5: Lamento): "Denial - negation-" (Cap.5: Sorrow). "I laugh on the outside and I cry inside". This song is a Rosalia's tribute to Camaron de la isla, a famous Spanish singer, descendant of gypsies. «Preso» (Cap.6: Clausura): "Prisoner" (Cap.6: Closing). It's an interlude. Spanish actress Rossy de Palma reflects in a little monologue on a past abusive relationship she had, and how she didn't even realize she was traped, until she broke free from it. «Bagdad» (Cap.7: Liturgia): "Bagdad" (Cap.7:Liturgy). This chapter reference the downfall of the wife. Rosalia said Bagdad is about a real place, a club in Spain, but some people see also a reference to the capital of Iraq, a devastated city. Rosalia recorded this song and sent it to Justin Timberlake to ask his permission to use the melody of "Cry me a river". Apparently JT does not like to grant his songs to other singers, but loved this one. «Di mi nombre» (Cap.8: Éxtasis): "Say my name" (Cap.8:ecstasy). This chapter it's about the sexual connections between the couple and also the submission to the lover. Rosalia said the name of the songs it's a little tribute to the Destiny's child song, cause she was a big fan when she was younger. «Nana» (Cap.9: Concepción): "Lullaby" (Cap.9: Conception). Part of the song belongs to two real spanish lullabies. It's a sad song, apparently about the conception of a unwanted child in an abusive relationship. «Maldición» (Cap.10: Cordura): "Curse" (Cap.10: Sanity). "I've been told there's no way out, down this street where I'm going. They told me there's no way out... I have to find it. Even if it costs my life, Or even if I have to kill". She makes her choice and it is her life of his (literally or metaphorically). «A ningún hombre» (Cap.11: Poder): "To no man" (Chap.11: Power). It's a very empowering song, out of the violence of the rest of the album. She takes charge of her life, deciding she won't allow herself to forget what she has lived. "I consent no man to dictate my sentence. Only God can judge me. To him alone I owe obedience". "I'm going to tattoo in my skin Your initial, because it's mine. To remember forever what you did to me one day".

[@HyrumFavela]

i was about to explain it like this, and thank you cause you need this info to fully understand the album, the story telling is amazing

[@dani.p]

🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼

[@adrianaquijada6477]

Amazing summary Isaac... But maybe you could give some credit to the person who did that research in the first place right?... AKA: me. Thanks

[@Art-enjoyer_Fern]

Really good in general- but here's some little things, in "Di mi Nombre" she's not submitting sexually to her husband, but cheating with another man. This is made reference to by how she specifically says for example "say my name when there's no one else around, when there's no one else around" or "so the things we're doing here don't leave through that door" (basically don't leave the room) I do get how that can be interpreted as "we're engaging in sexual activity which is indecent, so the stuff here shouldn't leave this room" but added to the fact that the in the novel this album was inspired by she ALSO had a lover she cheated with, I think it checks out. Maybe you were aware of this cause you wrote lover and not husband, but just in case I wanted to say something cause I feel like her cheating on another man and having a positive sexual experience vs her submitting to her abuser has you know 😭 a vastly different implication as to how dark this song is meant to be. Not that that mentality can't exist in a toxic abusive relationship, cause they really are messy and complex like that which is what makes them so devastating because sometimes abusers can have that sort of power over you and make you feel like you want something you really didn't but 😭😭 I dunno I at least feel a lot less shitty vibing to the song with that context MXBSJJS. And secondly, honestly the interpretation for Nana is fair and a nice one as well! But for the most part in terms of lyricism it matches a lot better with the implication that she suffered from a miscarriage she's mourning. The lyrics in specific that specify this are the one's that say "In the door to heaven, they sell shoes for the little angels that are barefooted". This is a little confusing without context, but it's believed that this is reference to the tradition were woman would knit little shoes for their children to put on once they're born, but since this particular child didn't manage to live, he stayed barefooted- and went to heaven, therefore being referred to as "a little angel at heavens door", because they died. I hope this was helpful! My translations may be a little rough since I'm gonna go to sleep the moment I finish writing this comment and so I'm rushing a little, but I think they work well enough in terms of getting the point across lolol. You're still free to prefer your own interpretations, but you know I thought I'd add my two cents lol, there's more lyrics that coincide with the one's I used here as examples, but once again it's a little late for me 😭😭😭 if you'd like more elaboration though I wouldn't mind doing so at a later time that is but yee👍✨✨

[@emmpire7228]

The songs represent chapters from a novel of 13th century called Flamenca revolving around a toxic relationship: 1. MALAMENTE Chapter 1 Augurio (Omen): It's an omen of how the relationship is going to end "Badly, very bad". She knows the relationship is bad and toxic, 2. QUE NO SALGA LA LUNA Chapter 2 Wedding. They get married and she has no voice already lol. 3. PIENSO EN TU MIRÁ Chapter 3 Celos (Jealousy): After getting married the husband starts to get jealous and possessive of her. Lyrics are sang in the husband perspective (she has no longer voice in the toxic relationship) and you can hear “I think of you sight as bullets in my chest” “I’m afraid when you leave outside, because everyone can see you smile”… 4. DE AQUI NO SALES Chapter 4 Disputa (Dispute): Also sang by the husband perspective (not hers). He threatens her and beats her up. This song is the most aggressive and the claps represents him beaten her up. “you who provoke me, you won’t be leaving here…with the back of the hand I’ll make it very clear”. 5. RENIEGO Chapter 5 Lamento (Sorrows) is her crying and her sorrows of being lonely and mistreated. 6. PRESO - Chapter 6 Clausura “captive - closure” the feeling of being in hell (beatings, etc., not literal hell). Captive in the relationship, not in literal prison. The voice is Rossy de Palma in a movie where she was a vicitm of domestic violence. 7. BAGADAD Chapter 7 Liturgia (Liturgy): This song is sample by Cry me a river of Justin Timberlake. Bagdad was a nightclub in Barcelona and the song is about loneliness and religious references to God, fallen angel, praying for change from the hell she is now (relationship). In the video she cries herself until she drowns, like crying a river haha and she is dressed as britney spears. 8. DI MI NOMBRE Chapter 8 Éxtasis (Ecstasy): She changes, her attitude is happier because she has met a lover and she feels more powerful sexually. She feels joy. 9. NANA Chapter 9 Conception; where she gets pregnant. Nana means lullaby in spanish. 10. MALDICIÓN Chapter 10 Cordura (Curse - Sanity) where she wakes up (empowers herself) and fights her husband ending with her killing him, “a river of blood”. Also uses TKN sounds for the moment of the killing. 11. and finally TO ANY MAN Chapter 11 Power - where she promises that any man will dictate her sentence, like an empowerment anthem of victims of domestic violence. THEN there is also the video of “JURO QUE” a single. It is supposed to be her lover going to prison for her. After she killed her husband, her lover decided to take the blame to save her. Therefore, as she explains in the song, she had no time to “kiss him goodbye and she will go to prison for him”. The changes of perspectives also indicates when she has voice and when she doesn't in the relationship. Techniclly Motomami is the first album she sangs from HER personal experience and personal voice. The other albums are always from different voices, she defines herself as a conduct of stories.

[@emmpire7228]

If you want to see the videos there are for Chapter 1, 3, 4, 7, 8 and Juro que. For Chapter 2, there is like a live video from a documentary.

[@jafethq]

Last track would be “no man” cuz any man is the total opposite

[@skepticalmaiden]

Thank you.

[@javi5899]

Here's a list of all the music videos from each era: EL MAL QUERER: - MALAMENTE - PIENSO EN TU MIRÁ - DE AQUÍ NO SALES - BAGDAD - DI MI NOMBRE MOTOMAMI: - SAOKO - CANDY - LA FAMA - CHICKEN TERIYAKI - HENTAI - MOTOMAMI (song) She also released a few droplets and collaborations with other artists in between eras: - Barefoot in the Park (ft. James Blake) - Con Altura (ft. El Guincho and J Balvin) - Aute Cuture - Milionària/Dio$ No$ Libre Del Dinero - Yo x Ti Tu x Mi (ft. Ozuna) - A Palé - Juro Que - Dolerme - TKN (ft. Travis Scott) - KLK (ft. Arca) - LA NOCHE DE ANOCHE (ft. Bad Bunny) - Lo Vas a Olvidar (ft. Billie Eilish) - Linda (ft. Tokischa)

[@kamisama903]

Está super completo!

[@zaldum386]

Te has dejado el mejor de todos que obviamente es... Aunque es de Noche.

[@Kbtito]

yes react to this videos also!!!

[@sergiopmigoya]

@@zaldum386 "Aunque es de noche" es anterior a "El Mal Querer", no está entre este y "Motomami".

[@cWjkL8ysxOkrH66]

we demand an A Palé reaction omfg I love everything about the song and video

[@HyrumFavela]

As a spanish speaker i have a deeply conection with this album, and maybe because im a sentimental biatch i cried when you said that if you could speak the lenguage youd be obsessed. This album is beyond, idk i really love it. i hope you listen to LOS ANGELES, first rosalias album.

[@pabloleivaj]

Love this video. El Mal Querer is definitely one of the best albums of all time.

[@paolaplo5573]

Thank you so much for reacting to dissss!! Watched the whole thing on patreon but here I am too bc your reactions are top

[@miked917]

The music videos from this album are AMAZING! They're art too and full of symbolism. Motomami's videos are very good too. I also recommend you to see some of her live performances, they're very good and you'll love her!

[@ellencrowd8058]

Yees!! One of my favorite albums ever☺️

[@noalavigne]

I love your reactions! u're so fun! 😊

[@pedrosalvino3433]

I agree with you on what you say at the end. This one is incredible in the lyrics, story, covers, concept and videos

[@adrianaserranojimenez4057]

More art coming in her visual. Can wait to see you reacting to her videos 🧐💃

[@candelac.8468]

Gracias Rosalía por hacer q todo el mundo escuche flamenco ✨❤️

[@lucia3262]

I love seeing a person who gets hyped so much with rosalia bc I feel the same way when I hear ALL of her songs

[@ladyms7840]

YAaas♡ you bring joy

[@kamisama903]

Nicee i was expecting this 😍

[@strangem2274]

literally I love u😭😻😻😻

[@SzahProductions]

YES please you would love her music videos!!!!

[@moonblue3312]

I love all her songs but I really think you should watch the video of her performing the song “Me quedo contigo” I was in awe the whole time! I love watching her perform live!

[@federicopaoloni3363]

I think you should definitely study in depth the concept of "El Mal Querer" and "Motomami" and make another video telling EVERYTHING because it's really worth it. Kisses from Argentina 🖤

[@andreanieto9903]

Yes please, react to her music videos!! they're amazing!!!

[@javisobepi]

Just have to say love it! Great reactions! Please do video reactions!

[@EduardoCardona]

Her live performance at the EMAs is awesome!

[@aaryandhawan75]

Doing the lord's work

[@BradEvans21]

💅🏻

[@RicardoQuintana]

There are so many theories about the song Bagdad, one that I love is about sampling cry me a river and she dressing with red latex simulating Britney Spears and in the video she LITERALLY cries a river being drown on her own tears in a bathroom. This is the only song where she wears a bling wig, supposed this even though she is sampling JT is a bit of a shade to JT and paying tribute to the sorrow and breakdown to Britney, being reborn after that awful relationship. You definitely should react to the video!

[@descoronado]

The music videos from el mal querer are insane 🤌🏼🤌🏼

[@maurojimenez6191]

i love every reactor reaction when they heard bagdad and trying to remember cry me a river

[@paulabautista4582]

There was also a theory that a song Rosalía released later called "Juro que" (I swear that) was about that other person in Flamenca's life blaming himself for killing the husband and going to jail for it. I don't know if that is true, but is indeed very interesting. The lyrics go like "There they take my boy priosioner, more that four hundred days, I had him hugged in the bed, when the police arrived, not even a kiss I could give him, as a goodbye, and that burns me" and then the chorus "I swear that (x4) for the time you are inside I'll wait for you (x2)". Beautiful!

[@JonJo676]

Millionària is also her first song in Catalan (she speaks Spanish, Catalan and English).

[@fridasophiagarciaalvarez727]

Hello, I love your reactions, you are very funny, greetings from Mexico! 🇲🇽❤️‍🔥And it sounds like mariachis to me and you're right and it's because as Spain conquered Mexico that's why in Mexico we speak Spanish and we have many Spanish traditions in Mexico and also in music that's why it's so similar and in general Mexico and Spain share so many things In Mexico we say that it is our mother country in a certain sense or in spanish: es nuestra madre patria 🇲🇽❤️‍🔥✌️

[@RosaliaFacts]

YES PLEASE, REACT TO HER MUSIC VIDEOS. She has the best music videos in the game right now fr

[@n-d]

Rosalía muito maravilhosa 🌹

[@KhoiNguyen-fq3wu]

the visuals from both era are god-tier

[@hiumansproject]

Tienes que reaccionar a los vídeos, SON OTRA OBRA DE ARTE

[@mariaisabelcarrillo6315]

She played the whole album live when it came out (2018) in a Madrid square in a free concert for more than 11.000 people. That show, as her live shows, is iconic, the choreographys and dances, she cried of emotion singing, brough a quat-moto on stage, etc. Don't miss it! kzbin.info/www/bejne/rZrJq4WVhLh2mbs

[@danielv5410]

Omg! This record has some of the most creative concepts and lyrics. Would hit different if you understood Spanish - but glad you still appreciated it! 🤍

[@NizarNoor]

Lyrics are a massively huge part of this album. You need to read it thoroughly, or even study it. This concept album is a masterpiece.

[@cm8300]

rosalía is the moment

[@Brillantecoucou]

Love this 😂😂😂❤❤❤

[@TheLajandro]

Yes please, react to the whole music videos

[@trishla_payntas6479]

live for this reaction😍😍BRAD PLEASE REACT TO AVA MAXS NEW SONG & VIDEO!!!!

[@juditxu]

Watching el mal querer videos is a must

[@y.u.n.gg_tellyy]

Yay

[@BradEvans21]

🥰

[@jypapii4870]

She IS a MV QUEEN. PERIODT! PLSS watch her mvideos!!!!!!!!!!!

[@strangem2274]

Omg I love u 😭😭😭

[@alvaroparra449]

Hiiii from Chile 🇨🇱

[@vvVMV]

With the visuals you'll come to feel and understand the meaning of the songs. They're hard

[@konichan8645]

Yes check the videos of both albums and te visuals too. And between both albums she released several songs and videos check them out too

[@bloomx6669]

The music videos for this album are INCREDIBLE, you should react to them, at least watch them, they`re a pure work of art...... You are very fun btw, the bad pronunciations make it even better.

[@rosslyncabrera9160]

You need to react to her mv !!

[@alealana197]

music videos now 😍😍😍

[@skepticalmaiden]

React to her visual album of El Mal Querer, please! In order, though... The wife didn't say she would kill herself for him, he said that she would. The wording makes it clear. The jealosy part is of the husband , referring here to Pienso en tu Mirar. He imprisons her to keep her isolated and she flees in Aqui No Sales ( the videos would help understand a bit better, but just a tiny bit). She kills him btw, in the end,but beforehand she takes a lover . Funny thing is that she gained popularity with this one. Even among the non Spanish speaking crowds. To know this was her final university project makes it more amazing aun.

[@strangem2274]

You did it

[@dani.p]

21:15 you say Charlie and I say Jolene lol (and I speak spanish hahaha) but I sing it like: ay jolene jolene jolene xD)

[@camipareja5628]

Visuales too please. Great reaction!

[@sebastiantenorio5473]

Yes react to the videos, all of them 🤩🫶🏼 all her tracks that are not part of albums are very good and the videos as well

[@criticoncriticon]

Please, react to her videos! Pure art!

[@Mark.mp3]

MUSIC VIDEO REACTION NEOOWWWW

[@aeonflux-mu9mt]

her vibrato is fairly common for flamenco singers! if you like it you should get into flamenco music.

[@edbardof7941]

You MUST watch all the videoclips from El Mal Querer. You will love them. Peace.

[@evapena2595]

PLEASE do Arca next PRETTY PLEASE 🙏

[@ElectricPhantom]

Okay, but now listen to her first album too 🤣🖤🖤🖤

[@gks9149]

First four chapters are from the point of view of the man, he is basically possessive, jealous and an abuser and the rest is from the point of view of the woman. She ends up killing her abuser (her husband) and some believe the baby she conceived died due to the abuse because the lullaby she sings could either imply the child being born or the child dying because it references angels looking after it. The di mi nombre track (chapter 8) is believed to be the passionate encounter between her and a lover she has and the single JURO QUE that she released a year later is believed to be the lover who incriminates himself for the death of her husband in order to protect her as the lyrics and music video is about her promising that she will wait for him and that she will sell everything to get him out of there.

[@aeonflux-mu9mt]

in bagdad shes also sampling annie lennox

[@ilonasenfield]

Brad, I really recommend you to have a look on Rosalía music videos from El Mal Querer because if you think the songs are beautiful, the Music videos are TOTAL ART !! Try: Pienso en tu mirá or De aqui no sales ( my favourite). Hugs !!

[@JoseManuel-dh6iy]

Hi Brad :) can you react to the album 'The Gods We Can Touch' by Aurora? It's beautiful and she did a cover for a Harry Style's song 'Golden'... she is amazing. You will love her.

[@oskihicar21]

your HAVE to react to Auto Cuture and Apale

[@smartalex94]

this album makes feel so lucky my first language was Spanish.

[@lucia3262]

If you react to the videos of el mal querer and Motomami, I'm here for it

[@sonyrodz]

I know it’s a different style but you should listen to Halcyon Days by Ellie Goulding if u haven’t. That album is simply amazing.

[@nadiahuertas187]

If you're obsessed with her vocals and sounds, brace yourself for the visuals...

[@whatsupmaaan87]

If you use headphones you can find out a lot of unseen sounds ;)

[@evs6417]

Cap. is the abreviation of capitulo that is chapter. Every song of EL MAR QUERER is a chapter of expiriencing a heartbreak (or thats what i know AHAHAH dont quote me)

[@ladylordeve]

Your pronunciation is kind of awesome to be honest for someone who don’t speak spanish, I didn’t commented it on the Motomami react but you was on point on that one too, congrats

[@pabloleivaj]

React to her visuals plsssss

[@nikukllobocishta3469]

Not sure if someone already mentioned this but this concept album takes the themes of each chapter, hence cap 1, 2, 3, etc from a 13th century novel. Each song represents a different chapter in the novel (called Flamenca) and basically in the 8 centuries since that novel, it shows that the themes of jealousy, possession, etc have not moved forward much in the context of toxic masculinity. Rosalia studied flamenco in college and this album was part of her college thesis. Her previous album, Los Ángeles, was also a school project. She actually had to get permission from Justin Timberlake to release Bagdad as it is. To tie this all up, the songs progress in a storyline and she sometimes is singing from the point of view of the husband.

[@mariaisabelcarrillo6315]

The Spanish "que" sounds like the Ke from "Kelly", is an easy trick to pronounce the Spanish "que"

[@riley5337]

are you gonna react to maybe you’re the problem by ava max??? i’d love to see your thoughts

[@chdv3221]

The album is based on a book that’s why it says cap 1 cap 2 etc.

[@deadsoon]

A lot of the songs are from the husband's POV. Like Que no salga la luna, Pienso en tu mirá and De aquí no sales.

[@mariacandelariacabrerapere1392]

Reacción a los ángeles de Rosalía desde Tenerife

[@reyaguilera11]

WOULD YOU EVER REACT TO EUROVISION????

[@lizzzies]

Please react to her music videos

[@federicomorabilo5067]

If you want to hear another Spanish speaking artist, I highly recommend to you to hear calambre from Nathy Peluso, you will love it. 😘

[@lulucestmoi]

LA ROSALIA. ;)

[@sergiopmigoya]

Maybe it's time to begin with visuals, 'cause they are another important part of Rosalía's creativity together with her team. In order not to repeat, we can leave those of these two albums for later, and start with some of the videos that she took between one and the other and that are songs that don't belong to either. I recommend you start with "A Palé". You will love it for sure: kzbin.info/www/bejne/a6vaoaqYmayBf80

[@karensanhueza7724]

React to foxes, she has a new álbum, the kick 💃💃💃💃💃💃💃

[@Pablonaranjor]

The woman was too stunned to speak :_D

[@alexandrabelloso2176]

4:55 the genre of Delirio de Grandeza is called Bolero and it's Cuban. Whoever told you it's a subgenre of flamenco is a bit off😂

[@ito3192]

Great video for sure, but you could've definitely done a bit more research coming into this reaction, specially being the second time you react to her, or at least throughout because the instrumentals are not the only thing that compose the track and you're not experiencing everything if you don't get the lyrics.

[@SergioGarcia-de2wu]

el mol cuerEr

[@sergioalaral]

Hi i am in love w you bye

[@tylertamez8112]

NOW DO LOS ÁNGELES

[@loonapobres]

now let me tell yall.. having s3x to this album makes it 100x better 😮‍💨

[@evaglo4972]

Querer sounds like Kerer, so you pronounce it El mal Kerer, pleeeeease. Which means the bad love, not literally but approximately. The same applies to all the words with que/qui all sound Ke/Ki. Xx

[@manuelahernandez308]

El Mal Querer es para escucharlo bien, si no lo conocías deberías darte tiempo y ver los vídeos, solo así lo apreciarás y lo entenderás, no es un trabajo para oírlo de pasada

[@ivanmadrigalt]

15:18 jinomin

[@fernandocuentas1145]

La mayoría de los latinos sabemos inglés y la mayoría de los gringos no saben español???

[@rakon8496]

Would love to hear your musicvideo reactions, many amazing artistic interpretations of her songs... 🌺🌺🌺🌺 Why not start with Capitulo 1? kzbin.info/www/bejne/iJnXaKV4fdqLjZo

[@teoima1]

*face palm*