The music biz can be a hard knock life, unless you have Jay Z in your corner. Now UK Roc Nation signee Alexa Goddard is ready to take the throne and poised to set the charts alight with a shiny new music video for her electro-pop debut single, "Marilyn." Dropping before she storms this years "Wireless Festival," the clip comes in aid of the zesty blonde singer's forthcoming new EP of the same name, recorded in Los Angeles and New York and due out August 17th!
Goddard, Jay Z's newest protégée doesn't want to be normal, she informs us on her debut single. She wants to be someone, like Marilyn Monroe. Lofty aspirations, for sure, but Goddard isn't some wide-eyed newbie who's just starting to daydream about fame and excess and the glamorous life. The 23-year-old Hampshire lass has been at it for a few minutes now, having done time as a YouTube sensation in the UK with over 40 million views, and featured on songs by Trans Siberian Orchestra and fellow British artist Wiley.
So here we are with "Marilyn," Goddard's first proper, major label single, is a tune about wanting to have a great life like Marilyn Monroe, the tragic film star's and it takes a few listens, but it's really quite (very) good. It's not going to revolutionize the pop scene in any way, shape or form, and in fact, the opening lyrics "Let's go down to Carnaby, get fucked up like we're royalty" veer a bit too close to the Shamelessly Borrowing From Lorde's "Royals" department. But all in all, "Marilyn" is a harmless pop track that might please the casual tween-aged radio listener or soccer moms looking for a slab of edginess to spice up their afternoon.
The accompanying music video, directed by Hannah Lux Davis, sees the British singer driving around Beverley Hills and hanging out at a traditional American diner. As Goddard using popular song tackling the topic of Marilyn Monroe, while sacheting around Los Angeles in a pastel-palette, fifties-fuelled haze. There's candyfloss, there's ice cream, there's a couple of tiny dogs - basically the whole thing is fun, flirty, fifties and filtered, and it makes us want to recreate every scene from Grease and chuck an Instagram filter over the whole thing.
Goddard, Jay Z's newest protégée doesn't want to be normal, she informs us on her debut single. She wants to be someone, like Marilyn Monroe. Lofty aspirations, for sure, but Goddard isn't some wide-eyed newbie who's just starting to daydream about fame and excess and the glamorous life. The 23-year-old Hampshire lass has been at it for a few minutes now, having done time as a YouTube sensation in the UK with over 40 million views, and featured on songs by Trans Siberian Orchestra and fellow British artist Wiley.
So here we are with "Marilyn," Goddard's first proper, major label single, is a tune about wanting to have a great life like Marilyn Monroe, the tragic film star's and it takes a few listens, but it's really quite (very) good. It's not going to revolutionize the pop scene in any way, shape or form, and in fact, the opening lyrics "Let's go down to Carnaby, get fucked up like we're royalty" veer a bit too close to the Shamelessly Borrowing From Lorde's "Royals" department. But all in all, "Marilyn" is a harmless pop track that might please the casual tween-aged radio listener or soccer moms looking for a slab of edginess to spice up their afternoon.
The accompanying music video, directed by Hannah Lux Davis, sees the British singer driving around Beverley Hills and hanging out at a traditional American diner. As Goddard using popular song tackling the topic of Marilyn Monroe, while sacheting around Los Angeles in a pastel-palette, fifties-fuelled haze. There's candyfloss, there's ice cream, there's a couple of tiny dogs - basically the whole thing is fun, flirty, fifties and filtered, and it makes us want to recreate every scene from Grease and chuck an Instagram filter over the whole thing.
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