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60 | Eva Meienberg www.jrfm.eu 2020, 6/2, 58–63 Fig. 1: Music video still from Aunque es de noche, Rosalía, 00:01:11. Fig. 2: Music video still from Aunque es de noche, Rosalía, 00:00:55. statuettes of saints, rosaries and a disco ball, shining brightly in the dark night. “The Dark Night of the Soul” is a poem by the mystic John of the Cross to which the lyrics of Rosalía’s song refer. The Carmelite friar lived in Spain in the 16th century and was a representative of the Counter Reforma- tion. Locked up in a tiny cell almost without light, he wrote the poem that