In September 2018, the singer was asked by Spanish actor and internet personality Brays Efe about the album's third single in an interview with Cosmopolitan magazine.

[4] Rosalía later clarified on social media that she is actually singing "ay ali", and said she based the song on the tangos of the 1950s Spanish gypsy cantaora La Repompa de Málaga.

[5] Salvatore Maicki of The Fader described the song as "intoxicating and gritty", saying Rosalía "whisks the deceptively simple production into a universe of her own with syrupy autotune and uncoy demands".

Stereogum called the video another of Rosalía's "gorgeously produced freaked-out fantasias that do fascinating things with symbols of Spanish identity" and likened its lighting to a 1970s Italian horror film.

[7] This was also noted by Celia Cuervo of Harper's Bazaar, who treated it as a deliberate homage due to the choice of clothing.