Rosalia singer biography

Rosalia’s fresh single here is a lot about Tiktok and Industry and try to understand why there are more and more such conversations in the media - your interviews are constantly going to the same topic: Tiktok, the industry, how to break through, how to take off, and the conversation about creativity seems to go into the background. Doesn't it upset you? There are really not many releases, but still I position myself more as an artist who should release music and create my own image.

I understand that there are few music, but there are many vidos in Tiktok, so they ask me about my experience in the field of blogging. When they ask me to introduce myself, I always and everywhere say that I am a musician. But maybe this is not visible from the outside, because in the field of blogging I developed more than in music. Well, it happened, it is much simpler, in my opinion.

This is a quick conveyor, you can shoot 10 videos a day, upload it - and 5 of them will come in. With music it will not work. You cannot create such a track in one day that will give you popularity at once. The implementation of all points will last from a month to six months: the track needs to be reduced, arranging, write down, make a cover - this is a more laborious process.

I see many musicians who go into a ticktok, and it is felt that this is not their hypostasis: it turns out strained and Nekruto. But in me there was always a desire to create videos, music. Therefore, I began my work precisely with blogging, in order to then make music. It always seemed to me an interesting creative process. I am awesome. I wanted to ask: how about this? He may fly or not fly, I don’t really worry about it.

It is not very important for me whether I will continue to grow tickte or not. It is more important for me whether my music will fly in Tiktok. I have a slight attitude towards Tiktok and Instagram. I understood correctly? It’s funny for me to shoot stories, upload photos. I show myself as a person who can be interested and then switch [to streaming platforms] and listen to music.

In my social networks, for the most part, humor. Usually I lay out what I want, and not what they expect from me. Doesn't it seem to you that the industrial agenda takes out conversations about meanings and creativity? There is Vanya Dmitrienko: He has one hit. Therefore, everyone affects this topic: it is very important for a new artist to be introduced on social networks and PR there is your music there.

But if the conversation about creativity is deepening into the ticktok, then this is a little strange. When you talk about music, you want to talk about it: how you created it, what emotions you had, how you are inspired. Such things are rarely asked recently. What are people interested in? There was no such thing before! There were connections, the promotion of the label, money, producers, etc.

Now it will not be interested in how you made this track, but how you made it popular in Tiktok. It seems to me that some artists write music so that a fragment of the song is ideally suited under a tick. That is, already pork off their music to the sound in Tiktok. But this does not mean that all the musicians began to do the same thing and the whole repertoire of the artist is configured for popularity in Tiktok.

You can’t build everyone under one comb, but if you want to become popular, you need to play by the rules. But do not overdo it. This turns into fast food. The passage of the maze. Here, Rosalia talks about her family and the first steps in music: now you will see that the Armenians are a very musical people - you said that before writing the songs there was an impostor syndrome.

How did he manifest and how much did he bother you? It seemed to me that I should know the notes, solfeggio, prescribe tonality and chords - and then I will be able to write a track. I did not know how to release songs, how people write them down, where the bats are being taken. Zero knowledge, emptiness in the head! When the guitar appeared, I realized that you can choose several chords and sing a melody under them.

First without words - and then try to write a text. At first it did not work out very much: for example, my first album from the point of view of the text is weak. There are cringzhoval moments, but it was experience. The main thing was to take the first step. I overcame the feeling that I could not. But when you put everything in your head on the shelves, you can already take a step forward, so you just need to go read and watch [information] or at least just purchase the first tool.

Learning to play the guitar was my best solution - it’s good that I did not abandon it. It was hard, but it turned out. Of course, the muscle memory of work with strings remained, so it was not so difficult to learn how to play the guitar. I learned almost everything in the lessons of Utuub. I think that these are genes, because my whole family is musical, almost everyone knew how to sing.

In addition, almost every Armenian can sing. At 11 years old I realized that I sing better than my classmates at events: the teacher told me about this, and I began to pay attention to my voice. At a more conscious age, I realized that I get not just better than others, but in a special way. Did you think about this topic? How did it happen?There is probably a historical explanation for this.

My assumption: Armenian mountain people always loved to perform music, always sang and played on different instruments, there are a lot of great musicians. This is a majority of culture since ancient times. But I do not understand history, so I can’t say exactly where such a special gene in people came from. We are, in principle, the creative people: not only in music, but in general.

My mother played on the Armenian folk instrument. I don’t remember what it is called: he is large, he is put on his feet. It is like a huge triangular plate with strings, they play with handles - most often women are most likely meaning the eve. My dad played cello and even graduated from the conservatory, but then life abandoned his life so that he stopped making music.

And grandfather owned six instruments and was the director of the music school for many years. I was asked if I wanted a music school. I have always been a child who wants to try everything, so I agreed. I was taken to the lesson of the cello, showed how it looks. I was impressed, and I decided to continue to engage. They often ask me: “But do you know this Russian musician?

I say: "No." Of the Russian artists, I really loved the Christmas tree and nyusha. Classmates have always asked me: do you rummage for the tracks of Noize MC or Oximiron? And I had no idea who it was. I did not get stuck deep in social networks, so they passed by. Here we are talking about the conservatism of the Armenian families, the spoiler: the parents of Rosalia - an exception, household xenophobia at school and Tiktoka, as well as about childhood in the suburbs - you said that you were afraid to make tiktoki and write songs, because parents may not like it.

Is the opinion of your parents important to you?

I was lucky that the opinions of my parents are quite adequate. Of course, at first it was a little dumb. I not only worried about my parents, but in general for my whole environment: suddenly I will be considered megabra? Although I always led Instagram and Storis. I was dumb because my jokes may seem very strict for the Armenian. But I cannot call my traditional family, so my fears were exaggerated.

When I started shooting tiktoki, my mother did not dig in any way and was absolutely adequate to this. Dad also never dug up to me. I am talking about this now, because in many Armenian families this is really a problem. Often girls write to me in Direct: “Damn, how did you start engaging in musical activities and blogging in an Armenian family? My parents never climbed into my personal space as a blogger and musician and always respected my opinion.

Let them see what I do, the more I do not do anything bad. ”