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It didn’t take long for Martinez to develop her fiercely loyal fan base,
which is now millions deep. Her first and only album has been
certified gold, and she has plans for a second tour in the fall. All in all,
she’s come a long way since she stepped into Atlantic Records’s
office wearing a necklace made of doll parts and hair dyed two
different colors—an aesthetic she picked up from Cruella de Vil. We
spoke to pop’s greatest anomaly a day before she played Lollapalooza
about fantasy versus reality and what we can expect from her
sophomore album.
LINK
A Look Inside Melanie Martinez’s Beautifully Twisted World | Vogue
An Interview with Chase
Atlantic
When Chase Atlantic first released their
music, they did not expect it to change
anyone’s life but their own. The band,
comprised of Mitchel Cave on lead vocals, his
brother Clinton Cave on lead guitar and
saxophone, and Christian Anthony on rhythm
guitar, started in Australia, and were signed by
none other than the Madden Brothers. Since
2014, they released a few EPs, but it’s only in
recent years that they’ve truly come into a
style all of their own.
Their latest album ‘PHASES’, released in 2019, took inspiration from the
vastness of outer space. When I sat down with the band before their
London show, they explained that the aesthetic was the first thing that
inspired the album, but that it transformed into something more: ‘how
twisted and dark the human brain could be.’ The songs cover a wide range
of feelings, from thoughts after one-night stands to mental health issues.
When performing the songs live, Mitchel admits that tapping into their
darker subject matter can be hard. I DON’T LIKE DARKNESS is
‘probably the most emotional we’ve ever gotten on stage.’ The song, as
you may have guessed, is about dealing with depression and wanting to get
out of that mindset. When I ask the band how they cope with going back to
those dark places on stage, Michael answers ‘as a creative outlet, music is
probably the most helpful for dealing with mental health.’ He also cites
songs like STUCKINMYBRAIN and EVEN THOUGH I’M DEPRESSED,
as extracts of their diary.
LINK
An Interview with Chase Atlantic (thestrandmagazine.com)
Un vistazo al retorcido mundo
de Melanie Martinez
Melanie Martínez es como una estrella del pop
sacada de la imaginación del Dr. Seuss: La cantante
y compositora de 21 años lleva moños de gran
tamaño en el pelo y labios de colores brillantes, y a
veces se pinta lágrimas gráficas en las mejillas.
Pero hay una complejidad detrás de su estética de
muñeca. Su música cuenta historias de abuso de
drogas, depresión y disfunción familiar a través de
la óptica de una adolescente de ojos abiertos. El
álbum debut de Martínez en 2015, Cry Baby (que es
también el nombre del alter ego de la cantante),
detalla las crisis existenciales a las que uno se
enfrenta al borde de la edad adulta. Las letras son
una retorcida mezcla de ingenuidad infantil,
angustia adolescente y apatía adulta, todo ello
cantado sobre sintetizadores espeluznantes y ritmos hip-hop contundentes
Martínez no tardó en desarrollar una base de fans muy leales, que ahora se
cuentan por millones. Su primer y único álbum ha sido certificado como
disco de oro, y tiene planes para una segunda gira en otoño. En definitiva,
ha recorrido un largo camino desde que entró en la oficina de Atlantic
Records con un collar hecho con partes de muñecas y el pelo teñido de dos
colores diferentes, una estética que tomó de Cruella de Vil. Hablamos con
la mayor anomalía del pop un día antes de que tocara en Lollapalooza sobre
la fantasía frente a la realidad y lo que podemos esperar de su segundo
álbum.
Entrevista con Chase Atlantic
Glosario
Childhood: infancia
Teardrops: Lagrimas
Sophomore: Segundo
Develop: Desarrollar
Range: Gama