Rosalía has premiered ‘Omega’, her new single, at Piromusical, the fireworks event of La Mercè, Barcelona’s main festival. Next, ‘Omega’ has been uploaded to streaming platforms on Vila Tobella’s birthday, today September 25. ‘Omega’ is a collaboration by Rosalía with Ciudad Real native Ralphie Choo, current number 1 album in Spain, and its evocation – intentional or not – of Enrique Morente and Lagartija Nick’s masterpiece is limited to its title.
In fact, the acoustic guitars form the main accompaniment of ‘Omega’, to which Rosalía and Juan Casado add subtle and decorative arrangements of clapping and auto-tuned voices. In a kind of new ‘Hentai’, Rosalía combines love and sex in an acoustic tune with a beautiful chorus, in which she rhymes “I got sentimental / before I made you cum.” Ralphie Choo becomes more sentimental, comparing himself to Céline Dion, although he also claims to be a “tiger.” Stay with whoever is both.
‘Omega’ is a composition worthy of Rosalía’s most romantic side, to which is added the layer of reference to ‘Omega’, the album, which Rosalía uses to express that the loved one is always the destination to which she returns, its beginning and end. But ‘Omega’ is no more than a curious anecdote in his career. Not even its authors seem to give it much importance, given the cover. As a birthday gift from Rosalía, it is a beautiful gesture.
“Omega is the end, it is the celebration of having found what you wanted so much and the security with which one loves that makes you not want to be anywhere else but there,” explains Rosalía in a press release. «It is a pleasure to share with Ralphie, he is a whirlwind of energy in the studio. We sent each other many songs before we really started making our own because we are both very music lovers and I quickly realized that our musical tastes are very similar. My intuition told me that we would understand each other for sure in the studio and that’s how it was! I remember that we laughed a lot while we were composing and while we were shooting the video, in fact if Ralphie called me tomorrow I would spend the afternoon at an amusement park with him again without blinking. “Personally, I feel very grateful to have been able to collaborate with someone like Ralphie and to witness his passion and great talent in music.”
Charging …This Saturday, Vila Tobella had used its official WhatsApp channel to advance a new song. In her last message, sent last Sunday, she shared a 21-second audio of her singing a love lyric a cappella: “You and I lost among poppies / Your eyes shine, they are two guns / The tongues embrace, they are no longer alone / In my memory you have shot me. This verse has turned out to be the first of the lyrics of ‘Omega’.
The title of ‘Omega’ and the electric guitar advance pointed to a very clear influence of ‘Omega’, the masterpiece by Enrique Morente and Lagartija Nick from 1995. A fundamental work in the recent evolution of flamenco due to its union with indie , which has influenced groups like Los Planetas. Rosalía and Ralphie are two artists who have updated flamenco, in their own way. Finally, the concept of ‘Omega’ is used, in the duo of Rosalía and Ralphie Choo, from a personal and romantic point of view, with no apparent connection with the aforementioned album. “You are my Omega,” Rosalía sings.
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No guitars could be heard in Rosalía’s WhatsApp audio, but the singer had suggested the influence of ‘Omega’ in one of her latest Instagram posts, sharing a photograph of a sheet of notebook paper with the “omega” symbol drawn on it. . As if that were not enough, a black electric guitar appeared in the same image. In the caption of the publication, Rosalía added five emojis that spell the word “Omega.”
Imagine this with an electric guitar melody 🫢
— motomochi (@motomochi_rdddd) September 23, 2024
About ‘Omega’, about Rosalía and about flamenco, JENESAISPOP has recently spoken with Soleá Morente, daughter of Enrique Morente and author of great albums like ‘Ole Lorelei’ (2018), in the latest installment of the Algo Cambio podcast.
Rosalía currently has a hit on the global charts, ‘New Woman’, a collaboration with Thai singer LISA, a member of BLACKPINK. For his part, Ralphie Choo has just scored his first number 1 album in Spain thanks to the vinyl edition of ‘Supernova’.
