Dragonette has released her latest single Seasick, lifted from the new album ‘Twennies’.
The electro pop star’s new album is her first full-length record since 2016’s ‘Royal Blues’ features the the previously-released tracks New Suit and Twennies.
Of her latest single, she says: “Seasick is important for me because I know it’s about some pretty dark traumatic heartbreak, which I’ve written about A LOT.
“But in this song I can hear things healing. There’s a light heartedness that took time (and therapy) to achieve.”
Speaking in the October 2022 issue of Retro Pop, Martina reflected on how welcoming her son in 2018 affected her outlook, revealing: “It took me a long time. For a while, I couldn’t even combine those two areas of me – being an artist, singer, performer and being a mum. Those were very different things; it just did not overlap at all.
“I couldn’t figure out how to blend those things or if I was allowed to be a mum. It took a long time to be like, ‘Oh, these things coexist and this is who I am.’ I don’t know how it’s affected my songwriting, but it must have. I just don’t know how…”
For the musician, it was a transition akin to starting over, as she compares the lifestyle change to her early years in music.
“I started out in Dragonette just figuring out who I am and at the beginning it was like really putting on an act: ‘I’m crazy and flamboyant!’,” she muses. “And then slowly, I think I learned that the most important thing to represent is myself.
“When I had a kid, I was like, ‘Oh, my God, I don’t know how to do that. I don’t know how to authentically represent that part of me.’ I think that has to do with the fact that there’s not a lot of women in music representing themselves as mums.
“It’s not like we don’t see it; it’s just like, we love young 18-year-old girls and as soon as they turn into the other thing – which is not 18 and mums, all that kind of stuff – the media at large pays significantly less attention to what they’re saying and what they’re doing.
“So, I think because I didn’t see a lot of that reflected back at me, I didn’t know how to do it and it took me a while to figure it out.”
‘Twennies’ is out October 28 and available to pre-order now.
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