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Who Is Loli Bahía? All You Need to Know About Rosalía's Rumoured Girlfriend

Public sightings spark questions about Rosalía's relationship with model Loli Bahía.

International Business Times UK

From Lily Allen to six-seven: it’s the 2025 bumper pop culture quiz of the year

Did you watch KPop Demon Hunters? Have you listened to Rosalía? And do you know who ‘fedora guy’ is? If you answered yes to all these, this is the quiz for you

The Guardian - AU

The 50 best albums of 2025: No 1 – Rosalía: Lux

On her monumental, maximalist opus, the dazzlingly audacious Spanish singer balanced pop and classical, experimentation and accessibility

The Guardian - UK

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Barack Obama shares his favourite movies, music and books of 2025

Barack Obama’s years-long tradition of sharing lists of his favourite cultural highlights continues. Here’s what the former POTUS has been listening to, reading and watching in 2025...

Euronews

The 20 best albums of 2025, from Rosalía’s Lux to Lily Allen’s West End Girl

THE COUNTDOWN: From the thrills and spills of Lily Allen’s ‘divorce album’ to dazzling pop debuts, introspective UK rap and country romps, Roisin O’Connor, Hannah Ewens and Ellie Muir reflect on the best in music 2025 had to offer

The Independent UK

Rosalía announces her tour dates — and she’s only in the UK for one night

The Spanish megastar released one of the year’s biggest albums and announced a global tour

Evening Standard

Rosalía announces massive ‘LUX’ 2026 world tour with dates in Europe, North and South America

Rosalía has announced a huge world tour for 2026, which will be her biggest run of headline gigs to date. Here's where you can catch her in Europe next year - and when to start booking tickets.

Euronews

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AP’s top albums of 2025: Bad Bunny, Rosalía, Hayley Williams, Dijon, Addison Rae and more

The Associated Press has announced its top 10 albums of the year, showcasing a diverse range of artists

The Independent UK

“The perfect marriage of Aerosmith and the Cult. An Aerocult, if you will”: November 2025 Guitar World Editors’ Picks

The new guitar music that GW editors have been obsessed with this month: fresh names, old hands and trailblazing players

Guitar World

The Vatican has given Rosalía its blessing – are the days of finger-wagging pontiffs over?

STATE OF THE ARTS: The pop star’s experimental, religious new album has found an unlikely fan in the Vatican, writes Fiona Sturges. Could this signal a new era of papal-pop culture diplomacy?

The Independent UK

The Royal Ballet and Opera releases cover of Rosalía’s hit single Berghain

A new version of the track record at Royal Opera House strips the song back to its operatic basics

Evening Standard

The Vatican praises new Rosalía album ‘LUX’ for 'provocative' songs about faith and spirituality

The global Spanish pop star has blown fans and critics away with her radical shift in sound on 'LUX', released earlier this month. Now, the clergy are sharing how ecstatic they are about Rosalía's new album.

Euronews

“It’s exquisite. It’s a gift from someone, somewhere, that it fell into her lap”: Singer-songwriter Matt Maltese says that he doesn’t really know how one of his songs ended up on Rosalía’s new album, Lux

The first time he heard the finished version was on the day the album came out

MusicRadar

‘The world is such a nice thing!’: Matt Maltese, the songwriter for pop’s A-list … and Shakespeare

After getting dropped by a major label, the Leonard Cohen-influenced south Londoner kept going, and has now won fans in Rosalía, Sabrina Carpenter and more. But writing for the Bard is best of all, he says

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The Independent UK

Celeste: ‘It can be exhausting, fighting for yourself to be heard’

INTERVIEW: The Oscar-nominated musician is back with her superb second album, ‘Woman of Faces’, but getting here hasn’t been easy. She talks to Roisin O’Connor about feeling compelled to speak up, the demands of the music industry, and ‘coming back to exist as herself, again’

The Independent UK

Critically acclaimed pop album praised by religious figures

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The Guardian - UK

Who knew it would take an American pope to remind us of the value of art and good taste?

Anti-AI and pro-beauty, Leo XIV has proved an unlikely custodian of culture – and a patron of meaningful work in a world of algorithmic slop, says Guardian assistant newsletter editor Jason Okundaye

The Independent UK

Rosalía receives surprise praise from Vatican for her ‘provocative’ songs about faith

Rosalía’s new album has received widespread praise for her daring new musical pursuit

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The Conversation

Rosalía’s LUX: why the ‘pop-versus-classical’ question misses the point

LUX, the new album from Spanish singer-songwriter Rosalía, has been critically lauded. But opinion is divided among some commentators on whether it should be considered pop or classical music.

The Conversation

Trespassers and troubadours: what to watch and listen to this week

The winner of this year’s Booker prize, Hungarian-British writer David Szalay, has often been accused of overwriting. His earlier short story collections and novels sometimes lost readers in their ornate, over-detailed descriptions. It seems he’s taken that criticism to heart. After abandoning a novel he had been working on for…

The Conversation

LUX: the tradition of the troubadour is at the heart of Rosalía’s songwriting

Spanish singer-songwriter Rosalía’s highly anticipated album LUX has been met with widespread acclaim from critics and fans alike. It’s a fusion of ideas drawn from diverse storytelling traditions, cultures and languages, offering a rich tapestry that rewards repeated listening.

Evening Standard

How halo hair became the most divisive new 'cool girl' hair trend

The dyed ray of light has become one of the hottest new hair trends — even if it isn’t for everyone

Euronews

Culture Digest: The best things to do, hear, see or watch in Europe this week

Stunning wildlife photography, dystopian game shows and scandalous divorce lawyers - here's what cultural highlights to look out for this week.

Euronews

Rosalía’s ‘LUX’ becomes most streamed album in a day on Spotify by Spanish female artist

Released last Friday, Rosalía’s fourth album 'LUX' is already one of our favourite albums of 2025. It has shattered a record previously held by Karol G.

Marie Claire

Rosalía Pairs Her 'Lux' Album Release With a Custom Balenciaga Skirt Set

She selected a designer with Spanish roots for a Spanish award show.

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