Rosalía — Listening to music low gives you bad luck. @rosalia
Summary
Rosalía Vila Tobella brings two bold takes to Kareem's subway car. First, she insists that listening to music at low volume gives you bad luck. It's not scientific, she admits, it's spiritual. To truly enjoy music, you need to blast it loud enough to catch every detail. Then the conversation shifts to mirrors and self-perception. Rosalía argues there are no perfect mirrors in nature, so humans weren't meant to see themselves constantly the way phones and cameras allow. Looking at your phone always makes you feel ugly, she says. The solution? See others more than yourself. The other becomes your true reflection, helping you understand who you really are. Kareem calls it profound. It is.
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So, what's your take? Listening to music low, it gives you bad luck.
100% agree. I don't know if it gives you bad luck. I don't have a doubt.
Why do you think it gives you bad luck? I have no proof.
It's not scientific. Not at all. It's more spiritual.
See, it's a Rosalia spiritual vibe. In order to enjoy music and listen to music, you have to listen it loud.
I agree. I love listening to loud music. But sometimes I'm on my device and it gives me a warning and it says, "Turn it down." No, no, no. We don't want no warnings. No. We want to hear it loud.
So when you're at home blasting it? Blasting.
Yes. Because it gives me energy and I can hear all the details.
The details. You know what I'm saying? And when you've made an idea in the studio, you want to hear it loud. I agree.
I also think that um there are no perfect mirrors in nature, right? There are no perfect mirrors in nature.
So I think that we were not made to uh see ourselves this much and this easily. Wow. That's pretty profound. We were meant to see the other more than to see ourselves. And we have this phone where we can see ourselves all the time. This mirror all the time.
And it's too high depth. Like it makes everyone feel it looks weird. If I look into a lake and I see myself— You'll be more yourself maybe. No.
Yeah. It feels natural and organic. But then if I look in a mirror, if I look at my phone especially—
Yeah. I always go, I look ugly.
Stop it. No. I feel like it's designed to be that way. They want you to hate yourself. The less we look at ourselves probably the better. The more we see the other, the better.
And why do you think that is? If you really see the other, then maybe you can understand yourself better because the other becomes the reflection of yourself.
Probably that's the best reflection. Oh my god. So profound. It is profound. But you're a profound person. You know, there's also no right angles in nature.
But wait, but there isn't the golden ratio? Yeah, like the snail.
Except the Fibonacci. So if that exists, well, I don't know.