{"id":648981,"date":"2026-10-08T22:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T22:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/648981\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T22:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T22:46:10","slug":"feel-free-to-invent-your-own-language-rosalia-says-bono-sought-spanish-lesson-for-new-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/648981\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Feel free to invent your own language&#8217;: Rosal\u00eda says Bono sought Spanish lesson for new song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ROSAL\u00cdA SAYS SHE was contacted by Bono, who sought her advice about a new song he wrote for his upcoming album.<\/p>\n<p>The pop star, who hails from a town near Barcelona, was on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon in the US when she said U2\u2032s frontman had asked her if he was using certain Spanish words correctly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe asked me if some of the words he wanted to use made sense.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne word actually came to mind. There was this word, \u2018marmole\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought: \u2018I\u2019ve never heard this word. I don\u2019t know what it means\u2019. So I looked it up, did some research, and it didn\u2019t exist in standard Spanish.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo I told him: \u2018I don\u2019t know, but feel free to invent your own language\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>    <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@fallontonight\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon<\/a> \/ YouTube<\/p>\n<p>Rosal\u00eda said the exchange was \u201cincredible\u201d because she\u2019d long been a fan of the band.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s kind of mind-blowing, because when I was a girl, I used to listen to their songs. \u2018With or Without You\u2019. It\u2019s incredible,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The song is called The Mirror Maker (Rosal\u00eda), she said. It is on the tracklist of U2\u2032s upcoming album Carnaval De Luz, which will be released on 13 November.<\/p>\n<p>It also includes songs called La Reina and Silencia, both Spanish terms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ROSAL\u00cdA SAYS SHE was contacted by Bono, who sought her advice about a new song he wrote for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":648982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[26016,275376,93,61,60,278,83588,906,660],"class_list":["post-648981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-bono","tag-cultural-exchange","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music","tag-rosalia","tag-the-tonight-show","tag-u2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/648982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}