A little less than a month after the release of ‘REVERSA’, Carol Biazin tells how the album affected her own personality, between step rescues and therapy sessions
“I’m not much of a talker, I’d rather make music / I think too much and say too little”. Against the grain of spoken poetry that opens REVERSEhis second studio album, Carol Biazin that we found in the studio of Rolling Stone Brazilspeak, and speak well. She talks about the insecurities she overcame to reach the result of the record, the musical references she rescued from her childhood in Paraná and the challenges that took her from the studio to the therapy session:
“REVERSE taught me that I have to talk more, really, that the more I talk, the more I can take my life lightly. And it’s a lot of dough that I’m very light. I’m in the best moment of my life. And this album was the kick to my lightness. I started going to therapy for this album.”
At the age of 25, the singer expands her artistic universe in a visual album with a different concept from previous works: here, she tells a love story in reverse, starting at the end and moving towards the beginning. The disc’s 14 tracks are divided into three well-marked acts, in which references abound, from the storytelling of Taylor Swiftpassing through the trap of Cardi B until reaching the poems of Tonico & Tinoco – ancestral influences from childhood in the interior.
“I wanted to bring all the references I’ve ever had, even unconsciously, references I didn’t know I had. I grew up in the interior of Paraná, so what was going on there was sertanejo, very accessible songs, with a very calm and easy to understand conversation. , and I wanted to bring that lightness to the end of this album because that’s how it feels.”
More mature and self-assured than on her previous album, Kiss of Judas (“I was still learning to write and compose there”), Carol who appears in REVERSE brings with it the need to let out feelings that were untouched until then, as she says: “We work on extremisms on this album, because I wasn’t afraid to expose myself”. In the lyrics, she brings biographical references and an alter-ego, the “Infernal Girl”, a personality of her own that kicked off the emergence of the story told in the material. That, in addition to a latent sexuality expressed mainly in tracks like “Bacardi” and “Playlist de Sexo” – a track beyond ‘transante’, as she herself points out, and inspired by names like Baco Exu do Blues, SZA, Jorja Smith, iza It is Ludmilla.
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REVERSE: the tour
With its debut scheduled for the end of March, on the stage of the Lollapalooza Brazilthe show REVERSE promises to bring to the public part of the theatrical atmosphere that Carol proposes in the album. In her favor, she must propose a visual construction already present in the disc’s visualizers, in addition to the division of the 14 tracks-between songs and interludes-into three very different acts.
“I want people to understand each act on stage, the look, the way we’re going to play, behave on stage. I want it to be a theater game, divided by acts, and that all of this is well demarcated, that the I want the audience to be able to have several emotions during the show. I want them to feel like crying, but also to kiss someone and have fun, smile… that’s what I always try to bring to my shows, but I think with REVERSE this will be very natural, very easy to do.”
Source: Rollingstone
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