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"Rosas" (Spanish for "Roses") is a song by Spanish band La Oreja de Van Gogh, released on October 20, 2003 as the third single from the group’s third studio album Lo que te conté mientras te hacías la dormida (2003) through the label Sony Music Entertainment España. It is the most commercially successful song from La Oreja de Van Gogh as well as the most streamed in the band’s platforms.

"Rosas"
Single by La Oreja de Van Gogh
from the album Lo que te conté mientras te hacías la dormida
Language	Spanish
English title	"Roses"
Released	20 of October, 2003
Recorded	2003
Genre	Pop • Ballad
Length	3:56
Songwriter(s)	Amaia Montero • Álvaro Fuentes • Haritz Grande • Pablo Benegas • Xabi San Martin
Composer(s)	Pablo Benegas • Xabi San Martin
Producer(s)	La Oreja de Van Gogh • Nigel Walker
La Oreja de Van Gogh’s singles chronology singles chronology
"20 de enero" (2003) "Rosas" (2003) "Deseos de cosas imposibles" (2004)
Music video

The band was working on their third studio album when the song was released to commercial and critical acclaim. With "Rosas" La Oreja de Van Gogh gained their second top ten single in the US Hot Latin Songs chart, tying at number four with previous release "Puedes contar conmigo" which was released as the album's lead single. In Latin America the song was the band’s breakthrough, peaking to the top of the charts in countries like Mexico, while appearing in most of the charts continentally. While reaching number one in the Los40 Spain airplay chart. becoming the third consecutive single from Lo que te conté mientras te hacías la dormida to top the chart after "20 de enero" and "Puedes contar conmigo".

In 2024 the song’s popularity boosted, resulting in a chart resurgence in 20 Spanish speaking countries. Charting within the Top 200 daily in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Dominican Republic, Spain, Uruguay while appearing in the Top 50 in Colombia , Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru and and Venezuela. Becoming the most spread Spanish language song from the 2000s and in general currently in Hispanic America since the streaming era. As well as the only song every Spanish speaking country top has in common.

Composition

Xabi San Martín composed "Rosas".

"Rosas" is a torch pop song. It was written by Xabi San Martín, the keyboardist of La Oreja de Van Gogh alongside his band partners. The lyrics narrate how the singer sees her first love with another woman as she remembers the moments they lived during their six-month relationship. At the same time, she narrates how every Friday she expects him to bring her roses while she waits in a place they frequented. When asked about the verse

Y es que empiezo a pensar que el amor verdadero es tan sólo el primero / y es que empiezo a sospechar que los demás son sólo para olvidar

"And I begin to think true love is only the first one / And I begin to suspect the other ones are just to forget"

band members said that in perspective life looks different at age 20 than it does at age 45, although first love has an air of freshness to it that others do not have.

The poethic forte from the lyrics can be seen in several lines such as :

"Escapando una noche de un bostezo de sol, me pediste que te diera un beso / Con lo baratos que salen mi amor, ¿Qué te cuesta callarme con uno de esos?

"Escaping one night from a sun's yawn, you asked me to give you a kiss / so cheap they cost, my love ¿Why don't you shut me up asking me for those? [reffering to the kisses]

Poethically tranalating the verses mean : "running away one night from a boring day you asked me to give you a kiss, they are so easily to get the from me and yet you are going to continue let me speak without giving me one"