The line of continuity, uncomfortable and fascinating, between the Christian confessional and Rosalía's confessional reveals the profound mutation of a cultural and religious instrument. The confessional has been central in Christian tradition, not only as a sacramental practice, but as a self-technology. The Church not only listened, but controlled and regulated consciences, behaviors, and narratives. Since the Middle Ages, confessing implies a precise dramaturgy, a delimited space, a voice that is exposed (the sinner) and an authority that listens (the priest) and absolves in the name of Christ. Furthermore, the seal of confession guarantees that what is said remains protected, reinforcing trust but also consolidating institutional power over intimate and non-transferable discourse. The undisputed intellectual reference for confession is the philosopher Augustine of Hippo and his Confessions, which inaugurate modern interiority. Without Saint Augustine, there would be no culture of introspection or moral economy of confession.The reappearance of this structure in the Lux Tour is surprising. In the concert, imitating being in a confessional, Rosalía takes the place of the listener and, symbolically, absolves. But the content changes radically, since those who confess (fans, influencers or artists) do not admit any guilt nor ask for forgiveness, but rather explain curious situations or romantic disappointments experienced. The victim, in fact, is not the one speaking, but the one who is spoken ill of: the ex-partner, "the narcissist", "the absent", turned into a narrative object, the so-called "gem". The confession thus shifts from individual moral examination to a satirical emotional exhibition shared with thousands of people.This moment in the confessional, located just before the song La perlaThis moment in the confessional, situated just before the topic In short, all this responds to a profound change in the concert model. We no longer just attend musical performances, but to the production of content in which attendees get involved, in one way or another, so that the public becomes another part of a spectacular gear that not only fills venues with its presence but also co-creates a new digital viral device.Saint Augustine sought God in inwardness; Rosalía turns this inwardness into a shareable spectacle. The question is no longer who listens to us and who absolves our sins, but who will share it. Perhaps in a future Lux Tour, as a new marketing resource, we will be able to consume a consecrated host by Rosalía.

Taking advantage of the fact that Rosalía is on tour this week in Barcelona, we review a list of restaurants she has visited on previous trips to the city. Some of these establishments have been so liked by the singer that she herself has shared the dishes on her social media. If you want to know what the famous Catalan singer's tastes are like, or, who knows, try your luck to see if you happen to coincide with her on a day she repeats, here is the list.

Thousands of videos and chronicles shared on social media and in the news have explained in detail the show that Rosalía premiered in Lyon on March 16. There has been an avalanche of aesthetic, scenic, musical, and even psychological interpretations of this show that has the album Lux as its backbone. With all these fragmentary impacts, it is possible to form an opinion about the concert, marvel at, and admire the proposal of the artist from Sant Esteve Sesrovires. However, experiencing the show live is something much more impactful, as she demonstrated in the first of the four concerts at the Palau Sant Jordi, all of them with sold-out tickets.

"It seems like everyone is going to a communion," observed Laia gracefully, from the queue for Rosalía's concert in Barcelona. It could also be an Ibiza party. White, long skirts, rosaries, and pearls prevail in the queues to enter the Palau Sant Jordi. The first concert being on a Monday makes everything calmer. There have been no camped fans, nor much stress: here the youngest are university students. The first in line is Ingrid, 28, who arrived at 7 in the morning from Zaragoza with three friends and in no way expected to have the number 1 painted with a marker in her hand. "Everything Rosalía does is art. She puts a lot of passion into it. She's my favorite artist. It's just that, even if you don't like her style, the music is really worth it," she defends.

The Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona is the next stop for Rosalía's Lux tour on April 13, 15, 17, and 18. On this ambitious tour, a huge leap in scale, the artist from Sant Esteve Sesrovires is not alone. This time she has surrounded herself with trusted artists and new collaborators who add talents in a show that is making history.

Aitana, the youtuber Esty Quesada, the influencer Shannis, rapper Metrika and now Barça player Kika Nazareth. The Culer forward was the protagonist in the confessional of Rosalía's latest concert in Lisbon, where she revealed to the singer from Sant Esteve de Sesrovires – and also to the entire audience – a story about a love triangle between her and two other women. 

The concerts of Rosalía's Lux tour include a moment of confession on stage, where the singer from Sant Esteve Sesrovires places herself in a fake confessional and listens to the story of a well-known personality, usually about the sins of one of their ex-partners. At the Madrid concert she gave this Friday, it was the singer Aitana who entered the confessional and gave details of one of her most talked-about breakups: the one that ended her relationship with Colombian singer Sebastián Yatra between 2023 and 2024.

Since becoming a global star, the interest in Rosalía from gossip magazines has not stopped growing. If a few days ago she was seen quite annoyed by the paparazzi's pursuit in both Paris and Madrid, this week she is on the cover of the magazine Diez Minutos for her real estate projects. According to the publication, the singer from Sant Esteve Sesrovires would be considering the possibility of buying a 600 m² triplex in the Madrid neighborhood of Argüelles.

Judging by the chronicles full of admiration from the critics following Rosalía's concerts, the singer continues to turn her performances into milestones of artistic expression at the peak of vocal perfection, musical exuberance, visual spectacularity, and conceptual richness. There's no need to even mention the fans' reaction. In a few days, we will experience the phenomenon at the Palau Sant Jordi, in front of an audience that will already be devoted from the start, but who must be experiencing this avalanche of praise for the artist as the excited anticipation of an unforgettable night.

The extraordinary global resonance of Rosalía's latest album, the success of the film Los domingos, the media coverage of the papal succession, and the more or less "spiritual" bias (the quotation marks are important here) of certain high-audience series have led to the expression "Catholic spring" being used in certain circles. I already referred to Rosalía's specific case a few months ago, because it seemed significant to me, to say the least. The fact that it is a genuine marketing product, albeit of high aesthetic and musical quality, does not discredit the real interest it has generated among many young people (and not so young). How should all this be interpreted? The CIS data show that there has been no increase in the practice of Catholicism in Spain in recent years, but rather a slow and sustained decrease. According to CIS surveys, the percentage of the population declaring themselves Catholic —practicing or not— has fallen from around 60% in 2020 to 55.4% in April 2025, with a particularly marked drop among non-practicing Catholics. In parallel, the groups of agnostics, indifferent, and atheists continue to grow, together accounting for nearly 40% of the population. The CIS does not detect, therefore, any "spring", that is, any generalized upturn; in fact, the dominant trend is progressive secularization. Catholicism continues to be the majority religion in Spain, yes, but it has not experienced any real growth, at least during the 2020-2025 period. All of this, however, does not quite align with the references we presented at the beginning. So, what is happening?There is no structural revival, nor of vocations, nor of liturgical participation, nor of the global proportion of Catholics, but there are micro-tendencies that no one expected and that suggest certain changes in attitude. Could they be symptoms of a minority but significant cultural change? We will see. What we are witnessing is not a sudden explosion of spiritual fervor, but rather the progressive exhaustion of a life model that, for decades, has presented consumption and ultra-individualistic self-sufficiency, without ties or commitments, as immediate paths to happiness. This narrative, which took root strongly from the second half of the 20th century, has been showing its cracks as younger generations have experienced firsthand the consequences of a fragmented, accelerated, and often meaningless life, which demands more and more stimuli (generally, by paying).

Rosalía debuted in Madrid this Monday in the first of four concerts of the 'Lux' album tour she will offer in the capital. The Catalan singer, visibly moved in her first concert of the tour in Spain, premiered at the Movistar Arena in Madrid, where she will also perform on April 1, 3, and 4.

The LDLC Arena in Décines-Charpieu, near Lyon, is the venue Rosalía has chosen to kick off the most ambitious tour of her career. Maximalist by nature, just like the album. Lux (2025), the artist from Sant Esteve Sesrovires has lived up to expectations with a spectacular concert, both in terms of stage presence and sound. In a way, she has transcended the album's conceptual framework, from which she performed fifteen songs; she only left out a few. New World, Jeanne and MemoryIn return, he has recovered a few from the stage Motomamibut none of The ill willIncidentally, perhaps because of the melodramatic weight of Lux It leaves no room for the material from that album. All of this was displayed on a main stage, where she and the dancers from the French company (LA)HORDE primarily performed, and on a secondary stage in the shape of a Latin cross in the middle of the arena, where the musicians of the Heritage Orchestra, a British chamber ensemble, played, with strings, winds, and percussion essential to pieces like Berghain, clear.

Singer Rosalia has retracted her opinion on Pablo Picasso in recent hours, which she expressed in an interview with Argentine writer Mariana Enríquez organized by Spotify. In the conversation, the two artists debated Picasso and Rosalía said: "I really like Picasso and I've never bothered to differentiate the artist from the work. Maybe I wouldn't have liked him as much for the things I've been told, but who knows, maybe I would have. I don't know and I don't care, I enjoy his work".

Many of Rosalía's fans probably thought she wouldn't perform live. BerghainNot only because of the vocal difficulties and the need for orchestral accompaniment, but also because of the structural and stylistic changes this piece, just over three minutes long, entails. But yes, she has done it again. She has captivated us once more. It seems that the woman from San Esteban Sesrovires truly invites us to participate in a double divine possession: first by Apollo, when she sings with the head voice that seduces with a strong German rationality, and then by Dionysus, with the remix by Conrad Taylor (with "till you love me").

Rosalía has dazzled once again with her latest album, LuxAnd also with her live performances. The Catalan singer received the Brit Award for International Artist of the Year in Manchester on Saturday night, at a gala where the English singer Olivia Dean established herself as a rising star on the current music scene with four awards, two in the main categories – British Female Artist and Album of the Year.

Rosalía released a new music video on Wednesday afternoon from his latest album, LuxIt's a ballad. Sauvignon Blanc, which she created with photographer and director Noah Dillon, who is responsible for the cover and the white and angelic aesthetic of the Lux Era by Rosalía.

Rosalía smokes a cigarette during an interview in an enclosed space and ends up reported. The Catalan singer went to the podcast of the youtuber Esty Quesada, better known as Soy una Pringada. During the recording, the artist decided to interrupt the conversation to smoke and invited the presenter to share the cigarette. Quesada, despite saying she was not a smoker, decided to accept because she "likes to talk between puffs". But this scene of both of them smoking has had consequences: the Nofumadores.org platform has decided to file a formal complaint.

"I'm very upset because they didn't let us sing at either of them," says Estrella Morente in a relaxed, almost amused tone, in an interview. The afternoon from Catalunya Ràdio, which aired this Friday. "I'm very surprised, I'm embarrassed," she continues. "We were so eager to sing," she insists. And suddenly her tone turns more serious as she says: "I am respectful, and she hasn't been respectful to me. And now I'm being serious," adds Enrique Morente's eldest daughter, who performs at the Gran Teatre del Liceu on February 15.

With the record number of plays on Spotify that it achieved LuxRosalía's latest albumIt's plausible to imagine that some of the people who attended Tuesday's presentation of Barcelona's cultural offerings at the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid might have heard some of her new songs on their way to the event organized by Turisme de Barcelona. "The Palau de la Música Chamber Choir is featured on the album every day," asserted Joan Oller, general director of the Palau de la Música. "It was recorded at L'Auditori," added Víctor Medem, his counterpart at the Barcelona music venue. Valentí Oviedo, director of the Gran Teatre del Liceu, chimed in: "Rosalía hasn't sung at the Liceu, but I invite her to come and sing there whenever she wants. I'm not going to let the others down now," he joked.

Rosalía She has the ability to generate excitement with every step she takes. The people she associates with also end up attracting the attention of her fans and the media. In this sense, a recent friendship of the Catalan singer has begun to generate headlines. It's with Loli Bahia, a French model with whom Rosalía spent New Year's in Brazil and with whom she has also been seen in Paris.