Rosalía and Bad Bunny, on the New York Times’ list of the best albums of 2025

New York.- The ‘Lux’ albums, by the Spanish artist Rosalía, and ‘Debí tirar más fotos’, by the Puerto Rican artist Bad Bunny, are featured this Friday on the list of the 25 best albums of 2025 compiled by the critics of the newspaper The New York Times.

The list is headed by the emerging Korean pop star Effie and the indie rock band Brooklyn Geese. “Rosalía is a restless and tireless consumer of the world and its multiple ideas, and one of those rare artists in any medium who wants to leave the places she goes to better than she found them (and, in fact, can),” indicates the newspaper, which includes a link to listen to the album in each comment. ‘Lux’ was released three years after the success of ‘Motomami’ (2022) and features collaborations with artists such as Björk, Carminho, Estrella Morente, Silvia Pérez Cruz, and Yves Tumor, among others. In it, Rosalía sings in up to thirteen languages, although Spanish is the main one. The newspaper praises Bad Bunny’s new project – which had a successful residency this year in Puerto Rico, under the name ‘No me quiero ir de aquí’ from July to September – and refers to the artist as “the main theorist of intergenerational exchange in pop”.

The album ‘Debí tirar más fotos’ was named album of the year at the Latin Grammy awards held last month in Las Vegas, where it ended the night with five gramophones.

“Now more than ever, the future can seem dizzyingly disconnected from the past. So let Bad Bunny, the main theorist of intergenerational exchange in pop, create an album so modern and current that it also explicitly roots itself in the joys of tradition and defends them. Everything old was also new at some point” critics highlight. After a successful year for the urban artist, all attention remains on the Puerto Rican who in 2026 will be the central figure in the Super Bowl halftime show, the most important game in the U.S. Football League, expected by many and surrounded by criticism by others.

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In the list, ‘The Life of a Showgirl’ (TLOAS), the twelfth studio album by singer-songwriter Taylor Swift, could not be missing, which, according to Times critics, is perhaps the “most evanescent” album in her catalog. Error al procesar la solicitud “That means songs about the pleasures of being hated, the pleasures of hating, the pleasures of being the boss, the pleasures of domestic happiness and the pleasures of pleasure,” the newspaper highlights. “There is no obvious consensus selection for the best album of 2025, partly because the release schedule was scarce in prominent names and partly because some of the most anticipated albums of the year (including those of Swift and Sabrina Carpenter) turned out to be disappointing,” the critic states. “But that also means it was a great year to discover new artists and delve into more discreet releases, the kind that will probably inspire more heterogeneous and less predictable year-end lists,” they add.