ECONOMIC IMPACT STUDY
Svetlana
After the success of their album Marrana (March 2024), with over 1 million streams, Svetlana continues to captivate their audience with new sonic proposals. This year they release SARNALONA, an EP that captures, with irony and sharp edge, the contradictory feelings of Barcelonans towards a city that is increasingly hostile and changing. The duo thus consolidates a distinctive voice that fuses genres with strength and irreverence.
It takes talent and many other virtues to paraphrase once again “Barcelona is powerful” and for it to still mean something. SVETLANA has taken this city of ours — beloved, exhausted, a little crazy — and turned it into a flashy, torn, and turbulent showcase. Tourists, potential sapphic loves, scabies, and Estopa appear. It makes the old sound new and, at the same time, evokes one of those nights when you can’t find a solid enough reason to go home. More than “I Love BCN,” it seems they’re telling us they’re fucking Barcelona, and that is definitely much more interesting. Júlia Díaz and Roc Bernadí are diarists of their time, and in light of that, maybe there’s no need to write more articles or essays.
Anna Pacheco
Writer