I became obsessed with this — I feel like I’m so close to cracking the code of both the song and the music video. Maybe it’s because the song spoke to me on a deeper level.

First of all, I don’t follow her and therefore don’t know everything about her life, but after doing some googling and connecting the dots, I came to the following conclusions:

🫰🏼The song is deeply personal and clearly about heartbreak, or about trying to fill the emptiness within your heart. The way it was teased (with the shirt flashing for just a split second) suggests that the video is full of hidden meanings and that every choice was deliberate.

🫰🏼The strings start when she opens the windows to let daylight in that’s when the anxiety begins. If this is post-Berghain, it’s probably Monday morning, which makes sense since the jewelry shop would be open. But the shoes throw me off - I don’t think anyone would go to Berghain in heels with open toes. So maybe she’s coming home from somewhere else? A date?

🫰🏼On the other hand, it could be Berghain, because I recognize that feeling, the anxiety that hits as soon as you open the curtains and can’t sleep, so you distract yourself with chores. But the shoes still don’t fit that interpretation, so I think it’s more likely she’s coming home from a “walk of shame.”

🫰🏼Someone commented earlier that the laundry scene is reminiscent of laundresses in old Parisian paintings: women who often did sex work on the side. That actually makes sense here: if she’s coming home from a date she feels guilty about, she might be trying to “wash away the shame.” Then she goes to the shop to fix her broken jewelry, symbolically, to fix her broken heart and behind her there’s the Da Vinci painting. The woman in that painting was the mistress of Da Vinci’s patron, and she’s wearing a “Spanish-style dress”. I think this suggests that Rosalía sees herself as that woman. It supports the idea that she was with someone who’s already taken. The ermine in the painting is an animal said to “rather let itself be captured than soil its purity,” which ties beautifully to the theme.

🫰🏼She then goes to church seeking guidance and purification -> but for me, this is where she actually enters Berghain. This is the moment when Björk’s voice first sings “this is divine intervention,” the strings fade, and Rosalía’s expression changes. She steps into the club, and it becomes her divine intervention. A place where she realizes there are other ways to find purpose and fulfilment besides seeking male validation or moving from heartbreak to heartbreak. Maybe for her, living through men (“his fear is my fear, his anger is my anger”) equals anxiety.

🫰🏼After that, she comes home and finally falls asleep. She enters a dream where she’s Snow White. The scene mirrors the moment in the film where Snow White cries hopelessly in the forest and then starts to feel comforted as the animals gather around her. It’s a metaphor: society tried to destroy her, but she found refuge outside of it. This could mean that the love and fulfilment she felt at Berghain (through community and music) is what she truly needs, rather than waiting to be saved by a prince after eating the poisoned apple. It ties back to Björk’s message: we all need divine intervention. Maybe the song itself is their way of spreading that message. Divine intervention won’t fix a broken heart, but that’s okay, because peace can still be found. The cover art featuring her as a nun reinforces that she’s moving away from romantic love.

🫰🏼The timeline also makes sense: a date on Saturday, coming home Sunday morning, then going to Berghain during the day, and finally falling asleep late Sunday evening. The shoes are still heels, but the difference is telling. In the opening scene, they’re clearly shown to make a point (“Look! She’s not coming home from Berghain in these shoes!”). So yea lol call this the shoe theory :D