“Pienso en tu mirá” is the second single released from Rosalía’s album El Mal Querer, which was released in its entirety in November of 2018. The Catalan artist has been commended for her seamless linking of flamenco melodrama and style with contemporary R&B, creating a new and fresh sound that continues to receive critical acclaim today. Julianne Escobedo Shepherd from Pitchfork Magazine attributes such a synthesis of styles to the emergence of an underground internet-based scene called Global Bass from the early 2000s. This movement involved and encouraged young music producers to tap into their countries’ folk and melodic traditions in order to reinvigorate millennial dancefloor music, using new technologies to collapse pre-established musical boundaries and genres. Shepherd further suggests that this movement continues to provide a kind of antidote to the homogenization of popular music occurring as a result of the industry’s increasing proximity and eventual overlap with the internet, as musicians have been orienting themselves to their own cultural singularity and hyper-locality. Within this creative context, Rosalía releases El Mal Querer – a testament to the synthetic and hybrid Global Bass movement by way of its musical intertwining of historical flamenco and Spanish stylizations with more contemporary sound mixing approaches.