Motomami
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Motomami
Motomami (stylized in all caps) is the third studio album by Spanish singer Rosalía, released on 18 March 2022 through Columbia Records. Rosalía listed producers Noah Goldstein, Michael Uzowuru, Dylan Wiggins and Pharrell Williams as well as longtime colleague El Guincho to create a concept album about her feelings during the past three years in the form of a collage of the singer's musical influences, especially in Latin music; all in an experimental key. Separated in two parts, it features guest vocals from the Weeknd and Tokischa, and is presented as Rosalía's "most personal and confessional album so far." -Wikipedia
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The Guardian
The Spanish singer’s third album delivers gem after gem, as flamenco rhythms rub shoulders with sassy party flexes.
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Pitchfork
The Spanish superstar’s third album is a showcase for Rosalía’s exceptional range. It aspires to stretch itself out across genres and play with form, and attains exactly what it sets out to achieve.
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Rolling Stone
Rosalía’s ‘Motomami’ Is Brave, Bawdy, and Completely Uncompromising.
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NME
an electrifying serve from a left-field mastermind.
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Stereogum
As someone who could happily spend hours analyzing a many-layered work of art, music, TV, movie, what have you, it’s always a pleasure to write about a project like MOTOMAMI that contains multitudes yet is entirely unpretentious. Rosalía’s “butterfly” self-descriptor is especially apt here: On her latest work, she achieves new career highs by flitting across subjects that are both self-contained and say something about the world as she sees it. It’s just exciting to watch her fly.
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The Perfect Tempo
Rosalía’s third album defies the concept of genre. She merges Regatton, Flamenco, Electronica and Jazz to create a fluctuating masterpiece, continuing her fascinating evolution as an artist.
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Sputnik Music
There’s humor, confidence and intimacy throughout the whole record. There’s aggression, sweetness and grandiosity and those can exist next to each other in the tracklist or even in the same song. Even though there are a handful of tracks that slow down the momentum this album builds up, there’s no denying the talents Motomami presents.
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AllMusic
Motomami is as provocative and risky as it is creative. It showcases Rosalía as a master, twisting together the contradictory strands of Latin and Anglo pop with traditional and vanguard forms and fresh sounds into a gloriously articulated radical approach that makes for obsessive listening.
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Medium
An expansive, and intimate album full of artistic and expressive freedom.
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Clash Magazine
The album closes with contrasts, the emotive ‘Sakura’ following reggaeton burner ‘La Combi Versace’, a sign of the sheer breadth that this Catalan musician occupies. Landing just in time for the Spring sunshine, ‘MOTOMAMI’ blows away the lingering strictures of lockdown, and finds a true modern icon bathing in personal freedoms.
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Evening Standard
The triple-platinum Spanish star takes us on a restless journey full of unexpected twists.
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Beats Per Minute
“Life is beautiful but deceitful,” she sings in “CANDY”, but judging by the quality of her writing and the maturity of her professional ethics, Rosalía shouldn’t be too worried.
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The Line of Best Fit
Rosalía indulges every side of herself on the victorious MOTOMAMI.
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Slant Magazine
Rosalía’s Motomami is a collection of deeply personal songs in which the singer wrestles with questions of fame and heartbreak.
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Peanut Butter Pope
It’s a voice that complements balladry, chopping up onions over the outro of Cute and entirety of Como Un G. It’s a voice that belongs to a singer-songwriter with infinite ambitions, proven by Motomami’s ability to stack up to the ruthless eccentric shifts of its predecessor.
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Stereoboard
‘Motomami’ is a fantastic, possibly game-changing work for Rosalía—a splurging musical bomb full of energy, sass, and variety—and it confirms the 29-year-old’s ascent to the top table of European pop artistry.
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Uproxx
Rosalía Is Ready To Take Over The World With The Visionary ‘Motomami’.
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Spin
If El Mal Querer put her on the map, the singer’s third album clearly shifts Rosalía’s music career into the next gear and speeds toward a future where pop music isn’t defined by one language.
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