Songs Like Malamente by Rosalía
By Dan Cohen · Published 2026-09-05
Slow and enormous is a hard combination to build. Malamente manages it: a dynamic range of 9 — near the top of our scale — at only 80 BPM, with intensity 70, complex texture, dynamic vocals and moderate shifts. Tagged cathartic and heavy.
The other records that are slow and huge
- In the Air Tonight — Phil Collins. Intensity 71, dynamic range 9, 95 BPM, moderate shifts. Shares both mood tags and the seed’s exact architecture: enormous range held at a walking pace.
- Sing About Me, I’m Dying of Thirst — Kendrick Lamar. Intensity 69, dynamic range 9, 99 BPM.
- Wake Up — Arcade Fire. Intensity 70, dynamic range 8, 80 BPM — identical intensity and tempo to the seed.
- Water No Get Enemy — Fela Kuti. Intensity 72, dynamic range 8, 100 BPM.
- Sorry — Beyoncé. Intensity 72, dynamic range 8, 104 BPM.
- Sign ‘O’ the Times — Prince. Intensity 74, dynamic range 8, 120 BPM.
- Last Resort — Papa Roach. Intensity 72, dynamic range 8, 100 BPM.
Flamenco-pop, prog-rock drums, West Coast hip-hop, Afrobeat, Minneapolis funk and nu-metal, all inside four points. The shape they share — huge range, unhurried tempo — is far rarer than any of their genres.
Malamente appears on Rosalía’s 2018 album El Mal Querer. Figures are our own measurements, read from the public API at build time. The genre and era spread is a consequence of measuring sound rather than style — it is not a claim that these artists resemble each other in any other way. No lyrics are reproduced.