Abstract Romantic love represents one of patriarchy's most successful strategies to control emotions and human relations. Spanish popular culture has contributed to the prevalence of this view of love through theater, cinema, television, music, and more. This article explores how the Spanish band Mafalda criticizes romantic love through the analysis of two of their songs, which are examined concerning one another: “Absurdas pero necesarias” (2016) and “Necesarias pero absurdas” (2018). Their lyrical and musical analysis brings the songs’ political position to the surface, denouncing the inhospitable world patriarchy has created and proposing an alternative society based on care.
Esther María Alarcón Arana (Sun,) studied this question.
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