星期二 [ 2010-1-26 9:45:55 | watches1013 ]   Discomfort zone the lacka I wish Ida Maria had told me she was sitting in a hot tub with some good looking, almost underage dudes and a bowl full of cocaine while listening to Stevie Wonder, getting a pedicure and watching The Simpsons on mute. That is what a young Norwegian rock-star-to-be should be doing. Instead she sounded super tired and had just done a phoner with a Japanese magazine because some business people really want to make her famous. And while it's not like she is resisting, she doesn't sound too stoked. "Things are just happening on top of each other all the time so it feels like I've just woken up," she says. Though Fortress Round My Heart is her first album, she's been playing steadily in Norway and last year pop-loving Brits ate up her cheeky (but totally not corny) single "I Like You So Much Better When You're Naked." Burrowing through Europe via her northern Norwegian hometown of Nesna, Maria's musical body is finally surfacing in the United States where she played a handful of wildly shimmying shows full of three-year-old songs. I heard her first single cheap ugg "Oh My God" two summers ago on a compilation of Norwegian artists and I thought she was a man. Listening now, that was stupid, but my initial instinct originated from the thick husk of her voice over simple chords and a plodding drum clomp. She's got aggressive power, always accelerating toward her music like a game of chicken. "I'm a very honest type of person, so I'm struggling with having secrets and keeping them back," she says. Stateside, the secrets are slowly leaking out of her lipsticked mouth, making people love her. She describes her musical ascendancy as if she were an alien-faced teen who got discovered in Wal-Mart and ended up on the cover of Vogue--it didn't have that much to do with her and she'd like to scale it back. When she played her single "Naked" at a huge Norwegian festival to an audience of 70,000, she s Other articles: http://www.qlxxg.cn/Blog/View/?429 浏览(354) | 回复(0)
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