Rosalía has apologized for the statements she made about Pablo Picasso in an interview with the Argentine author Mariana Enríquez. “I thought that Picasso was a very tremendous man, the typical thing that is said about him. I was not aware that there were real cases of abuse. I want to apologize if there was a lack of sensitivity on my part in that conversation. And that lack of absolute empathy with those women,” the artist mentioned in a video revealed on her TikTok profile.
On March 3, Rosalía sat down to talk with Enriquez on her transient promotional journey to Buenos Aires. At one level within the dialog, sponsored by Spotify, the singer thinks concerning the painter from Malaga: “It has never bothered me to differentiate the artist from the work. Maybe that man, if I had met him, I wouldn’t have liked him so much because of the things that have been explained to me. But, who knows, maybe I would. I don’t care, I enjoy his work.”
Every week later, Rosalía rectified: “I am not at peace with what I said. It is true that I was wrong, you are right. Thank you for telling me. It is important not to talk about certain topics when you do not have all the knowledge.” In the video, the singer, about to launch her album tour Lux in Lyon subsequent Monday, March 16, explains that these round him had suggested him in opposition to making these statements, however that he has ignored that recommendation.
In the identical approach, she needed to settle one other of the controversies that has dogged her since she launched her album, her place on feminism. In an interview with Leyre Guerrero for Radio 3, she acknowledged: “I surround myself with feminist ideas. I do not consider myself morally perfect enough to consider myself within an ism, but yes, they inspire me and I surround myself with feminist ideas.” After these phrases, hatred and judgment in opposition to her skyrocketed on social networks.
In the TikTok video, the artist tries to settle this challenge. “I have nothing but love, respect and gratitude for feminism,” she says. “Maybe sometimes I’m being careful because of that love and respect. I feel like I’m afraid to call myself something because it’s not a good enough representation of it. I think it’s clear: the way I live, write, performeo, I sing, in which I make music and I want to is very feminist. For me my feminist position is obvious. Maybe for the rest it hasn’t been so much.”
At the end of July 2025, a message on Instagram had already placed the singer at the center of another debate, whether artists should speak out about the Israeli invasion of Gaza. The designer Miguel Adrover published an email on his Instagram account in which he informed Rosalía’s stylist that he refused to make her a custom suit because of her silence regarding Gaza. A few days later, the artist also used her Instagram, with more than 26 million followers, to respond: “I do not see how shaming one another is the easiest way to maneuver ahead within the struggle for the liberty of Palestine. It is horrible to see day after day how harmless individuals are murdered and that those that ought to cease this don’t achieve this.”
This Saturday, Rosalía reflected on the position that artists should occupy in the public debate on any current topic. “Nowadays, if you don’t place your self clearly, the world may be very polarized, evidently if you don’t clearly say the aspect you’re on, you’re on the opposite. I don’t make this video for the haters. I do it for the people who find themselves all the time there. And I thanks for all the time being there,” he concluded.
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