Between tweets about new resolutions and celebratory pictures, the news that Rosalía had quit smoking went viral on social media yesterday, on New Year's Day. The singer herself announced it on New Year's Eve with a selfie in which she held a cigarette in her hand. “Goal of the year: last 'Sigarrito' of the year,” he wrote. As she documented in her Instagram stories, she spent that night like half of Spain: with her friends at home, who were dedicated to singing karaoke by Estopa and Miguel Bosé. But there was one image that has remained unnoticed to this day.
In the carousel of images that Rosalía uploaded to say goodbye to 2023 and which already has almost a million and a half likes, in one of them the artist appeared sleepy in bed, looking at her cell phone and with a book on the bed table. Evening.
“Good morning, Rosalía, may 'The House of Strength' by Angélica Liddell be with you,” tweeted publisher La Uña Rota, which published the playwright's text in 2011, for which Liddell won the National Prize for Dramatic Literature next year. As expected, fans began praising the choice on the social network. “It wasn't the news I knew I needed to start the year right” tweeted one of them.
It may not be a coincidence that Rosalía uploaded this seemingly spontaneous image. “The House of Strength” revolutionized the then National Theater and established Liddell as a unique playwright both in her approach to the great universal themes and in her staging: supported by Chekhov's “The Three Sisters,” this time relocated to Mexico, which The Catalan Author examines the enormous harm that men inflict on women and paints a stark portrait of patriarchy and its idea of love as possession. Given the news that the artist has faced in the last half of the year, the decision to publish a photo with said text, even if it is spontaneous, will give wings to her fans, who are always ready to analyze every single gesture of the singer . .
Without going any further: two summers ago, the Anagrama publishing house had to publish on Twitter which book the Catalan woman was reading, who uploaded a picture of her feet, on which also appeared a back with the publisher's characteristic yellow color. It was “On Earth We Are Fleetingly Great” by Vietnamese Ocean Vuong and tells the raw experiences of a young migrant and homosexual. This summer, after their breakup, another image on her Instagram revealed that she was reading “Feminism Past and Present” by Camile Paglia, although the artist said in a live broadcast on the social network last July that at the time she ” Feminism in the past and present” read. “Water and Jabón”, the treatise on involuntary elegance by the journalist Marta D. Riezu, which, although already a success, was sold out according to the artist's statements.
Rosalía hasn't managed to create a “prescriptive” reading club like Dua Liapa or Kaia Gerber, but she is aware that her recommendations become almost commandments for thousands of followers. It wouldn't be surprising if La Uña Rota had to print a new edition of The House of Strength. Nor does the singer leave any clues about a collaboration or future plans. We don't know if the artist and Angélica Liddell know each other, but we do know, for example, that they both worked together on Niño de Elche's latest album “Flamenco”. Mausoleum of celebration, love and death.