Rosalía shares “Hentai,” a lusty piano ballad
The fourth and final Motomami single comes with a sultry video directed by Mitch Ryan.
With her third studio LP Motomami dropping Friday, Rosalía has shared its fourth and final single, "Hentai." The new track comes with a Mitch Ryan-directed video and follows lead single "La Fama" (feat. the Weeknd) and February tracks "Saoko" and "Chicken Terriyaki," each of which arrived with its own visual treatment.
"Hentai" is as dirty as its title implies, with lines like "Yo quiero ride / Como a mi bike," "Yo la batí / Hasta que se montó," and, of course, "Yo te quiero hacer hentai." Ironically, it's set to the prettiest music imaginable: soft, twinkly piano keys giving way to trunk-rattling bass and machine-gun drum fills only in the song's final third.
In the video, Rosalía rides a mechanical bull and rolls around in the white linens of a bed at the center of a massive plaza de toros. Watch it above.