Rosalía’s performance at the Latin Grammy 2023: ‘Our love broke’ before Rauw Alejandro

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Rosalía did not look to the music of the future to open the Latin Grammy gala, this Thursday in Seville, but instead acquired a classic melodic song, perhaps with a poisoned message. Nothing less than ‘Our love broke’, the theme of Manuel Alejandro to which Rocío Jurado He left his mark in 1985, making it a fetish piece in his repertoire. “Our love broke / from using it so much / From so much crazy hug / without measures / From giving ourselves completely / at every step…”

Stanzas of swirling heartbreak that could have an inspiring figure, and a recipient, in the ‘partnership’ that Rosalía left behind this summer, not long after announcing her wedding plans to the world: another ‘Alejandro’, the Puerto Rican Rauw, present in the auditorium of the Palace of Congresses and Exhibitions in his double capacity, like her, as actor and nominee. It may be surprising that an artist who usually looks forward would engage in the act of stretching a morbid-romantic piece of gum like this. End of the cycle, in short, for the story of love and debauchery in which Rosalía made us participate in the heated song ‘Hentai’, whose memory floated between the lines when she, following the lyrics, sang: “I fed on you / for a long time / We devoured each other alive / like wild animals.” Although maybe it wasn’t that bad, because She slipped a touch as a sibylline full stop: “Our love broke / from using it so much…” (and here came the change), “or from not using it.”

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The interpretation was powerful and delicate, it must be said, oblivious to the natural roar of the difficult to match Rocío Jurado, with other kinds of nuances. She started the song alone, ‘a cappella’, and was joined by a stop of guitars and clapping, about thirty, sliding a sea of ​​rhythmic noise in the background. Her staging was heartfelt, funereal even, with a black dress with a pronounced neckline and giving lyrical warnings that “winter is coming, even if you don’t want it to.”

Intrigue had surrounded this performance, of which no details had emerged, and perhaps those three minutes and 50 seconds of Rosalía in a state that was almost bleeding. It was the ‘prime time’ scene of these Latin Grammys displaced outside the United States for the first time in their 24-year history, in a Sevillian venue repeatedly praised, “magical” in the words of Luis Fonsi.



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