The Catalan star’s epic new single is delighting and dividing classical music fans in equal measure
T
he 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.
Berghain is the lead single from Catalan pop star Rosalía’s fourth album, Lux, a monumental orchestral feat that has confounded critics and fans alike.
