Rosalía’s Berghain is a thundrous goth-pop hit – but is it opera?
by Laura Snapes Deputy music editor from on (#71639)
The Catalan star's epic new single is delighting and dividing classical music fans in equal measure
The Top 10 of today's Spotify Global Top 50 looks like business as usual: two Taylor Swift songs; Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars' Die With a Smile hanging around for an eighth month; the eminently normal male pop stars Sombr and Alex Warren doing brisk business.
But nestled among the crowd-pleasers is something of an outlier: a gothic, baroque assault powered by Vivaldi-style strings and operatic singing in German and Spanish.
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