Punk

Not Another Rockstar- Maisie Peters is back.

23rd Oct 2022 — 1 Comment

With one blondie dropping a late night bombshell of an album (stay tuned), let’s not forget another blonde. Maisie Peters, truly a brunette, is back and this time she’s got a rockstar boyfriend.

Not Another Rockstar

Recently we joined her on the floor of a photoshoot backdrop, wiping our eyes wondering why we were not good enough for a boy that made us perfect to them.Resonating with the lyrics ‘sat here in your favourite dress’ understanding that we make ourselves up for other people. All authenticity airbrushes bout of us before it’s had time to fill our edges.That young love belief that creeps into our early adulthood that tries to convinces us that if we replicate what they want then we will be enough for them to stay. The truth is if they didn’t want you at first, they wouldn’t want you anyway. You were always good enough but you can’t stop someone from changing their mind. Here of course I am talking about Good Enough.

Maisie Peters Good Enough

She then went blonde, revenge a new hairstyle. Which lead her to here with the release of her Not another rockstar video. A revenge hairstyle and rebellion boyfriend, Peters speaks to that 17 year old in all of us trying to find themselves without realising they are searching in other people instead of inside themselves, I’m 21 and I still haven’t found her.

Maisie Peters

While Good Enough was an emotional ballad to listen to as you cry in the bathroom mirror before falling to the floor, Not Another Rockstar sends you straight to the dance floor, you grab your girls and yell the opening verse; “Pinky promised I was quitting, pinky promised that I wouldn’t love someone if they didn’t I am a girl with big ambitions, but did i listen?”

This punkish attitude echoes the altruism imbued in her previous 2021 banger cate’s Brother that saw her guitar shred all over TikTok’s for you page. This Rockstar rebel is so intoxicating that we get addicted to the lawlessness, a game of spot the different in a line up, all the lovers look the same, will this cycle ever end? Peters echoes this feral ferocity in backstage dressing room, recalling her previous ode to youth, shouting into a hairbrush microphone.

This love is chaotic but its yours and he lets you know he could have had anyone else, but lucky you, you’re who he chose and you should worship him for that. He’ll make you forgive him when he crosses a line and you find him later in a police row. The pacing of this song does sound like a police chase, you can almost hear the sirens as Pters and her rockstar run through busy streets and behind stage doors.

What’ striking about these scenes than other than the paparazzis, perceived only though camera flashes, this video has only three characters, Peters, rockstar and us. We watch, hepessly as this disorder and dissary unfolds in front of us, in awe of our blonde protagonist in her bright coat and dark shades hoping that this time this boy will be good to her.

Overall this video is a fun, mosh pit must have that becomes a colourful chaotic backdrop to a song full of hard-hitting lyrics and difficult scenarios that depict a narcissistic anti-hero and helps yet aware lover who trails after him as he runs from himself.

Tell The bees- Otala’s latest release.

20th Oct 2022 — Leave a comment
Otala

Otala instantly bang on your ear drums with this new track Tell The Bees. First listen and you’re immediately submerged within the sound of this song, no build up, no warning, and you’re hit with an audible ambush.An eruption of emotion and colourful experiences, an exploration of grief and coming to terms with the inevitable.

Telling the bees is a Celtic custom about informing the yellow helpers of a birth, of a death, when someone comes, when they go. This is done so that the bees stay, tell them your secrets or they’ll fly away. This tale is liquefied to music in Otala’s latest punk anthem, with it’s omniscient narrator seemingly aware of his impending fate.

The track is filled with rage, honouring the inescapable demise of our desperate storyteller. The devoid life we live after loss is explored in poem. There is lightning in these lyrics that crash through the thunderous storm of shredding guitar riffs and drum stabs, the atmosphere reaches a dramatic crescendo in the final words of the narrator. When uttered are met with a raucous bossa nova style sax, an explosion of sound- chaos ensues as the narrator rests. Is this ending an act of rebellion or a celebration at his passing?

In actuality it does not matter if we tell the bees, the inevitable will continue to occur, not as some synthetic concept looming in the future, it lurks on every clock turn and there is nothing we can do to prevent it. The inevitable can strike a smiling face as well as one soaked in tears. Thus it is best to rebel, to dance to live as well as you can whilst the inevitable watches.Look into its eyes and dance anyway.

Otala have already established themselves as punk pioneers after supporting the likes of, Enola Gay, Ritual Hills and Bloodworm, they have also played with the likes of Yabba who you can read about here.The quartet is made up of Oscar, providing the eery voice for the narrator and the surreal guitar riffs, Rory providing the boom on bass, Jack disorienting a listener with this melancholic tale on synths and Fin keeping everything in check on drums.

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