Chloe Moriondo looked to girl in red as an early influence. Both are releasing new albums that showcase jagged emotions and unflinching honesty.

Chloe Moriondo and girl in red, Maestros of Growing Dains

Moriondo cited Marie Ulven (who records as a girl in red) as one of the early influences. Both released new albums that showcase frank emotions and more ambitious productions.

Chloe Moriondo has started posting YouTube Videos in 2014, when she was 11, one of the first waves of young people who built their musical identity on the platform, a bedroom pop song. She had been growing up in public for years in August 2019, when she posted a video titled " a

She was evolving, she said, and many of the old songs she had sung (or even listened to) didn't seem quite right to her anymore. Her tastes were changing and her confidence was growing. A month later, she posted a cover of Girl in Red's "Bad Idea ", and at the end of the performance, she explained how the music of Girl in Red had become on herhas its own composition.

When the Norwegian teenager Marie Ulven started to publish songs online as a girl in red in 2016, she quickly drew earnest attention for his ecstatically frank and utterly candid statements of gay love and quickly built a community for which The Girl with the Red Fandom was a safe space for the expression of identity.

Ulven has also provided a raw foundation upon which herself and her cronies currently rely, as two excellent novelties clearly show: "If I Could Make It Go Quiet ”, the first girl from the red album, and “ Blood Bunny ”, the debut album from Moriondo's major label.

On the sturdy and very clear "Blood Bunny", now 18-year-old Moriondo is a pop-punk fanatic, skilfully hopping between music moves from detached to lush production, with an emphasis on intimate and cut to the bone lyrics. Most songs are about relationships that don't quite freeze, like "Manta Rays ", when she sings, "My therapist will tell me it's better to let it go / but I want to light fires, I wanna explode / I wanna be whatever you wanna know. "

Moriondo writes with winning frankness, both about his own flaws and about objects of her obsession. "I want to be with her all day long / I'm a slut for everyone anyway," she said shrugging on the crystalline "Strawberry Blonde." On the dashing and muscular "Take Your Time ", she laments her fate of being under the influence of someone who's no longer there: "I want to know / what will it take for you to let me go / You don't fade like an old stick and pokes.

Musically, Moriondo has absorbed several waves of punk praxis. On "I want to be with you", she is maximalist, at ease with the intense production of jet engines, a "Girl on TV" is very melodious, ing on Avril Lavigne, even on the territory by Ashlee Simpson. But certain songs on this album, like "Rly Don 't Care" and "Favorite Band", evoke the oldest and rarest girls in red singles - direct production, and the simple joys of expressing themselves on the dance floor. the first person, revel in the emphatic and liberating power of the “I”.

Moriondo is part of microgeneration influenced by the strong and simple transparency of Ulven. (She was supposed to open for Ulven on tour last year before the pandemic.)Ulven is now 22 years old and his emotional circumstances have become more complex. "If I could make it be quiet" finds her in the throes of romantic angst, singing about relationships that are crumbling under the weight of her success. "If I ever come back / Will I find what we once had?" she sings on "Hornylovesickmess." "Guess I really broke us / So never get me back.

Ulven is also astute at capturing the pain of being a finalist for Ailments "I can't be your midnight love / When your silver is my gold," she sings on "Midnight Love," with a voice suggesting an unusually scary Dusty Springfield.

Early in his career Ulven's production was straightforward, but as it developed, his songs grew louder. "Is did you come? Have you come? "Full of moaning commentsants, and the slightly curdled "You Stupid Bitch " vibrate with a wall of sound beckoning to the new wave.

"If I Could Get There Quiet" was produced entirely with Norwegian musician Matias Tellez, the only exception being "Serotonin", which is also produced by Finneas, brother and sound architect of Billie Eilish. It 'so lush song that is also risky, singing about a painful and chaotic internal struggle:

And yet Ulven's voice is rendered dreamily, almost inspired, on guitars that slice and pulsate like' 90s indie rock. His daring and challenge take on new nuances - just like the ones that she influenced, Ulven also grows up in public.

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