On her album "Lux," Rosalía turns away from Hollywood’s echo chamber and toward something far deeper. Inspired by the lives of female saints, she wrote much of the album’s lyrics in near isolation, studying hagiographies and channeling figures like Teresa of Ávila, Joan of Arc,

Authors no longer write according to their lived experiences, they write conglomerations of media, and insipid fantasies inspired by that media. There are few modern 'authors' who have lived notable lives. This is a great loss.