On this EQ Music interview with Marlowe, we dive into the making of their debut album SUBMISSIVE and the story it tells about reclaiming energy and id by means of dance-pop. Marlowe might be bringing a reimagined reside present to our New Music Showcase at The Camden Membership on October twenty fourth (full with a shock reveal), the pop icons who proceed that encourage their craft, and what it means to create artwork by and for queer folks.
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Inform us a little bit bit about your self. The place are you from? The place are you dwelling? What sort of music do you make?
I’m initially from Venezuela and have been dwelling in London since I used to be 17. I make what I prefer to name singer-songwriter-dance-pop — it’s dance music, however with a private, storytelling aspect to it.
We’re very excited to be that includes you on our New Music Showcase on twenty fourth October at The Camden Membership in London, inform us a little bit bit about what you’re going to carry to us on the stage.
I’ll be performing a reimagined model of the present I’ve been doing to advertise my debut album SUBMISSIVE. The present, very similar to the album, explores the unraveling of a people-pleaser. It’s a narrative about regaining management — and the way being susceptible is a part of that course of. It’s not at all times fairly, however it’s at all times fabulous. I’ll even be performing a little bit secret that might be revealed for the very first time!
We love your newest launch SUBMISSIVE – inform us a little bit bit about this music/undertaking.
My debut album SUBMISSIVE, which got here out on August twenty ninth, is a dance-pop file about regaining management, as I discussed earlier. It follows the journey from the “Chilly-Hearted Bitch” persona to the “Dying” of that very same persona — telling the story of how I’ve needed to battle to defend my id, beliefs, and core values. And it’s one thing I proceed to do day-after-day, identical to so many marginalized folks do.
Relating to music influences, who’re your best heroes within the pop music area each legacy and new?
Janet Jackson, Woman Gaga, and Prince are very a lot the epitome of pop music to me. I proceed to be taught from their craft day-after-day. I contemplate myself a pupil of my craft and am continuously studying from each legacy artists and my friends. Caroline Polachek is my present research topic; she’s by no means boring and at all times has extra to supply.
What was the final live performance or gig you went to?
I noticed FKA twigs and RAYE at All Factors East final month, and it was an expertise I’ll always remember. They’re each so totally different, however what struck me essentially the most was their unimaginable dedication to their imaginative and prescient. Once you see them carry out, you’re entering into their universe; and that’s precisely what I purpose to create with my very own performances.
Any parting phrases for our EQ Music Weblog readers?
I simply wish to encourage everybody to come back to the showcase, as a result of artwork made by and for queer folks is actually the present that retains on giving. There’s going to be one thing everybody can connect with. I’m positive I communicate for all my friends once I say we’re working laborious for folks to seek out their subsequent obsession in what we do.
