![]() ![]() ‘My Agenda’s protagonists are the crazed SJWs turning the frogs gay with witchcraft. ‘M’lady’ is a fedora-tipping dom who’s literally mouth-breathing at the breakdown. Its characters are people that are often the butt of the joke. Embarrassing and uncomfortable thoughts are its lifeblood. Electra uses trap, hardstyle and shock rock the same way Weird Al used polka.īut what makes the songs here so replayable, what pushes them beyond novelty, is the glorious fixation on emotional extremes. ![]() The beats service more as a continuation of the joke. If you’ve been following what PC Music have been doing even tangentially, you’ve heard it before, which works for music meant for an audience desensitised from going on /b/ too many times. Much of the album sounds like waltzer music dipped in magnesium and dubstep. If you’re embarrassed about having it on your iPod, My Agenda has gobbled it up with a side of Baja Blast. Musically, Electra sources the most dated and tacky sounds to work with. For a project under thirty minutes, it’s a lot. Your enjoyment is going to depend largely on how quickly you got tired of ‘Money Machine’. There are character studies of r/gamer stereotypes, features from Rebecca Black and Village People, crushingly obvious metaphors about melted plastic hearts, and songs that feel somehow way too honest and completely irony-poisoned. Their follow-up, My Agenda, is even more intense. Songs like ‘Daddy Like’ and ‘Career Boy’ were catchy, layered songs about absurd machismo and power fantasies, delivered with a deadpan stare. Their debut Flamboyant was an alt-pop revelation, mining gold out of a deeply human response we don’t talk about enough – cringe factor. Dorian Electra pushes the performance of gender to wonderfully silly extremes in their music, which borders art, novelty song, and meme. “We’re born naked, and the rest is drag,” said one icon in the world of fracking. ![]()
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