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"De Plata" is a song by Spanish singerRosalía. It was released on 26 May 2017 byUniversal Spain as the second single from her debut studio album,Los Ángeles (2017), with production and arrangements byRaül Refree. A music video for the single was released and was directed byCanada. The song is a reimagined work of "Cuando Yo Me Muera", performed byManolo Caracol and Melchor de Marchena, and "El Querer Que Yo Te Tengo", performed by Manolo Frenegal. However, as theauthors' rights of both works have expired, the lyricism of "De Plata" is considered ofpublic domain. It is anew flamenco song in the form of aseguidilla, with aggressive guitar chords and elements ofalternative R&B.

Critical reception from music outlets towards "De Plata" was generally positive, with reviewers branding as one of the best songs on the album.^[1] However, flamenco specialists were quite critical about the song and the album overall for its "decontextualized flamenco etiquette".^[2] Rosalía performed the song live first at her 2017–2018 concert tour, the Los Ángeles Tour, and revisited it for theMotomami World Tour (2022), where she sang it with twenty-meter-long black skirt wrapping her waist during a revamped electric guitar-driven performance.^[3]

"De Plata" is aseguidilla song withnew flamenco andalternative R&B elements that runs for four minutes and twenty-eight seconds. It is the fifth longest song onLos Ángeles and one of the longest inher discography. During the song Rosalía talks aboutdeath with aggressive guitar chords from Refree.

Following the concept of the album, the lyrics consist of re-versions of the work of a series ofcantes by variouscantaores. The verses of this song are composed of "Cuando Yo Me Muera", performed byManolo Caracol and Melchor de Marchena, and "El Querer Que Yo Te Tengo", performed by Manolo Frenegal. "De Plata" was recorded at Estudios Calamar, inBarcelona, in 2016.

Spanish filmmaking collective Manson directed the music video for "De Plata", which features the singer performing the track as she walks and dances in the streets ofLos Angeles,California. It was published in Rosalía'sYouTube channel on 26 May 2017. Luis Troquel ofRockdelux felt that the clip showed a "facet of Rosalía that was unknown to many", as she dances "with a glowing enchantment and exuberant style." Manson shot the clip in16 mm film, as they "wanted to portray Rosalía as a classicHollywood star, but with a contemporary sensibility." The collective toldNowness that they chose the song because it had a "Tarantino-esque vibe" that they thought matched Los Angeles. They further explained: "Her art is very pure and wild and we wanted a video to match—no camera tricks, no VFX, no ornaments, noTumblr aesthetics, just the pure and raw performance of a new-born classic star."

Rosalía first performed "De Plata" at the first concert of her debut tour Los Ángeles Tour, inGranada. The performance (and the tour as a whole) only featured the singer, and Refree playing an acoustic guitar, a performance manner that critics described as "nude veracity". She performed it until the end of the tour on 14 April 2018 inIbi,Alicante.

For theMotomami World Tour (2022), Rosalía performed "De Plata" at the end of the second set, after covering "Perdóname" byLa Factoría andEddy Lover. Her dancers wrap a twenty-meter long black skirt around her and give her a standing microphone. Acamera operator shows the public a close up look of Rosalía as she performs a revamped, electric guitar-driven version of the song. Chal Ravens wrote forThe Guardian that "such static moments bring out the extremes of her extraordinary voice. There’s the fluttery soprano with its mohair scratch, gliding through upper registers like another pop icon,Mariah Carey. But lurking beneath is a melismatic wail, scalding as hot metal and moulded by her training at theCatalonia College of Music."^[4]

"De Plata" was also performed during theLouis Vuitton Men's Fall-Winter 2023 Fashion Show inParis, during the city'sFashion Week.^[5]

Credits adapted from the liner notes ofLos Ángeles.

Publishing

• Published by Songs of Universal, Inc, a subdivision of Universal Music Spain, SL.
• Recorded and mixed by Raül Refree at Estudios Calamar, Barcelona, Spain.
• Mastered by Àlex Psaroudakis atSterling Sound,Edgewater,New Jersey.

Production personnel

• Rosalía Vila – vocals, background vocals, vocal arrangement.
• Raül Refree – production, composition, arrangement; guitar

Technical personnel

• Raül Refree – mixing
• Àlex Psaroudakis – mastering

• Canada – production company
• Manson – director
• Óscar Romagosa – executive producer
• Alba Barneda – head of production
• Karen Saurí – producer
• Pilar Vila – stylist
• Estel Román – editor
• Marga Sardá – line producer

• 2017 singles
• 2017 songs
• Music videos shot in the United States
• Rosalía songs

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