Rosalía has apologized for the statements she made about Pablo Picasso in an interview with the Argentine writer Mariana Enriquez. “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 said in a video published on her TikTok profile.
On March 3, . At one point in the conversation, sponsored by Spotify, the singer thinks about 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.”
A 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 next Monday, March 16, explains that those around him had advised him against making these statements, but that he has ignored that advice.
In the same way, she wanted to settle another of the controversies that has dogged her since she released her album, her position on feminism. En assured: “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 words, hatred and judgment against her skyrocketed on social networks.
In the TikTok video, the artist addresses this issue. “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 sparked another debate, that of whether artists should speak out about the Israeli invasion of Gaza. The designer posted 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 don’t see how shaming each other is the best way to move forward in the fight for the freedom of Palestine. and that those who should stop this don’t do it.”
This Saturday, Rosalía reflected on the position that artists should take when faced with any current issue. “Nowadays, if you do not position yourself clearly, the world is very polarized, it seems that if you do not clearly say the side you are on, you are on the other. I do not make this video for the haters. I do it for the people who are always there. And I thank you for always being there,” he concluded.
