![]() ![]() Undeniably this is a purposeful decision, as Frasqueri and long-time friend and producer, Tony Seltzer, exclusively produced nearly the entirety of the album. The incredibly sorrowful “Morphine” and equally despondent “ Your Eyes Are Bleeding” pay reverence to the ubiquitous emotional turmoil of accepting the lonely feeling that no one can never truly understand you except yourself. “Look Up Kid”‘s aggressive electric arpeggio opening is eerily similar to a Paramore song circa “Misery Business” and “Little Angel” could moonlight as a B-side to a early “Dashboard Confessional” album. She is able to epitomize a generation when the emo subculture was at its renaissance. ![]() The album at its core could be an extension of the once popular punk goes rap series from the early 2000s. Frasqueri metaphorically bleeds over her specific anxieties from her teenage angst and extreme sadness in her raspy falsetto from the beginning to the end of the EP. ![]() ![]() What makes “A Girl Cried Red” worthwhile is the universality of self-centeredness. What makes Princess Nokia‘s “A Girl Cried Red” worthwhile is the universality of self-centeredness. Prior to “A Girl Cried Red’s” release, she highly publicized this upcoming album as “real alternative shit”, an outpouring of intimate emotions, fears, and insecurities of peak adolescence and it is clearly obvious over a cursory listen to the album. Her debut mixtape, “Metallic Butterfly” was heavily influenced by drum’n’bass and the jungle genre while its follow-up, “Honeysuckle”, was a venture into her disco soul roots. In essence, that is Frasqueri in a nutshell: constantly transcending and experimenting through her musical persona: Princess Nokia. This unofficial mantra is used generously throughout the EP and it inexplicably fuses itself well into any melody. A pre-recorded sample of her singing, “Smash my heart in pieces / it looks so good on the floor”. There’s a stand out lyric that Frasqueri uses repetitively that truly encapsulates the album’s overall glum theme. This new 8-tracked album exchanges aggressive horns and chants of empowerment for mellow guitar melodies and lyrical despair.Ī Girl Cried Red by Princess Nokia Her last major commercial release in 2017, “1992 Deluxe,” was an anthemic homage to her childhood growing up in the gritty streets of New York City. From the title alone, “A Girl Cried Red”, one can quickly make the conclusion that Destiny Nicole Frasqueri has taken a left turn in her stylistic musical direction. “I want to be a multifaceted artist, not just a musician, but an intellectual woman.” never has this saying been less true than it has been with Princess Nokia. Princess Nokia‘s new mixtape “A Girl Cried Red” is out now on Rough Trade Records. ![]()
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