Rosalía releases 'Berghain,' the first song from her album 'Lux.'

BarcelonaBerghain is part of Berlin's nightlife. Located between the Kreuzberg and Friedrichshain neighborhoods (the name is an acronym that combines the last syllables), it is the heir to theunderground fetish of the city and has become one of the go-to venues for techno fans. It has penetrated popular culture through artists like Lady Gaga, who presented her album Artpop in 2013, and films like John Wick 4 (2023). Now it is Rosalía who pays tribute to the Berlin club with a song titled precisely Berghain, which is published this Monday as the first preview of the album Lux, which will be released on November 7.

Berghain It features two collaborations that fit with the electronic nature of the song: Björk and Yves Tumor. The Icelandic artist, who had previously worked with Rosalía on the song Oral, is one of the Sant Esteve Sesrovires artist's inspirations. "If Björk and Kate Bush exist, it means there's another way to make pop," Rosalía explained. in the magazine Elle September 2025. She had previously recalled how Björk had inspired her when she said that "to create, you need periods of isolation; for a seed to grow, it needs darkness," which was a way of justifying the time Rosalía had gone without sharing new music. The collaboration with the American producer Yves Tumor, a heartbreaking representative of electronic music queer, reveals the experimental restlessness of Rosalía, an admirer of an artist who already made an impact when he performed at Sónar 2017.

The song begins with orchestral arrangements and polyphony, until Rosalía introduces a verse in which she praises tenderness and describes herself as a sugar cube. It's a block of baroque, but with symphonic impetus due to the volume of the strings, and with a daring that connects with the way Max Richter combines baroque and electronica. And less strummed than Scott Walker's on the album. The drift, but sharing with the British musician the operatic epic and, probably, the admiration for Händel.

Things change in the second part, when Björk intervenes, and in the third with Yves Tumor, each part with a different electronic sound, without the deep stridency that Hildur Guðnadóttir (the author of the soundtrack of Chernobyl and Joker 2) prints on the string, but with an undeniable avant-garde position. That is, in the first preview of Lux There is no trace of the Latin rhythms that did appear on the album. Motomami (2022).

The corresponding music video was filmed in Poland and directed by Nicolás Méndez, co-founder of the Barcelona-based production company Canada. Méndez was the director of other music videos for Rosalía's songs, such as, TKN (the song with Travis Scott) and I think about you, look.