De Plata

"De Plata"
Single by Rosalía
from the album Los Ángeles
LanguageSpanish
Released26 May 2017 (2017-05-26)
StudioEstudios Calamar (Barcelona)
Genre
Length4:28
LabelUniversal Spain
Lyricist(s)
  • Manuel Ortega Juárez
  • Melchor Jiménez Torres
  • Manuel Infante
Producer(s)Raül Refree
Rosalía singles chronology
"Catalina"
(2016)
"De Plata"
(2017)
"Aunque Es De Noche"
(2017)
Music video
"De Plata" on YouTube

"De Plata" is a song by Spanish singer Rosalía. It was released on 26 May 2017 by Universal Spain as the second single from her debut studio album, Los Ángeles (2017), with production and arrangements by Raül Refree. A music video for the single was released and was directed by Canada. The song is a reimagined work of "Cuando Yo Me Muera", performed by Manolo Caracol and Melchor de Marchena, and "El Querer Que Yo Te Tengo", performed by Manolo Frenegal. However, as the authors' rights of both works have expired, the lyricism of "De Plata" is considered of public domain. It is a new flamenco song in the form of a seguidilla, with aggressive guitar chords and elements of alternative R&B.

Critical reception from music outlets towards "De Plata" was generally positive, with reviewers branding as one of the best songs on the album. However, flamenco specialists were quite critical about the song and the album overall for its "decontextualized flamenco etiquette". Rosalía performed the song live first at her 2017–2018 concert tour, the Los Ángeles Tour, and revisited it for the Motomami World Tour (2022), where she sang it with twenty-meter-long black skirt wrapping her waist during a revamped electric guitar-driven performance.