Dorian Electra new album and video for shape-shifting, glittering single 'Idolize'
Photo Credit: Reece Owen
Dorian Electra (they/them), the “pop star who defies genres” (New York Times), releases their new album Fanfare, following a slate of critical praise from Billboard, VMan, Dazed, The Needle Drop and more.
The release comes with the high energy pop track 'Idolize', alongside a video directed by Electra and Weston Allen. It sees Dorian, an icon worshiped by their adoring fans, dressed as a sexy Napoleon-like popstar-dictator and their likeness carved into a Greek statue.
Check out the video for 'Idolize' here: https://youtu.be/Facsm0cRVFI
Stream/purchase Fanfare here: https://ffm.to/dorianelectrafanfare
Fanfare is the pop provocateur’s third album and sees them explore parasocial relationships, from the claims we stake on figureheads' lives to taking in obsession, idolatry and pop culture as modern mythology. Throughout the record, Dorian blurs the lines between love and hate, fandom and control. Working with a cast of creatives, including long-time collaborators Clarence Clarity and Weston Allen, alongside Casey MQ, Count Baldor and Klaxons’ Jamie Reynolds, Fanfare asks what we expect - or demand - from our public figures. Fanare blends sounds from pop to metal, jazz and classical - elevating them all in a distinctly Dorian Electra perspective.
Those yet enlightened must revisit Electra’s first two albums - the world building 2019 album Flamboyant and 2020’s edgy, provocative My Agenda. Dorian’s music masterfully blends together an assortment of genres, including pop, metal, jazz, medieval, epic baroque, classical, EDM, and more. It’s why they’ve been able to collaborate with such a wide range of artists including Lady Gaga, Charli XCX, 100 gecs, The Village People, Pussy Riot, Rebecca Black, and more.
Electra spent most of 2022 busy at work on their forthcoming project, which sees them examining the socio-political effects of internet culture and the rise of the parasocial relationship. DAZED visited them in the studio early last year, read about that wild experience HERE.
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Fanfare Artwork by Charlotte Rutherford
Tracklist:
1. Symphony
2. Idolize
3. Freak Mode
4. Sodom & Gomorrah
5. Puppet
6. Manmade Horrors
7. Yes Man
8. anon
9. Phonies
10. Touch Grass
11. Lifetime
12. Warning Signs
13. Wanna Be a Star