Backstage at Primavera Sound, the artist says he already feels at ease in mega shows and claims to have an “inexhaustible source of inspiration”
Less than two years have passed since then Marina Sena performed what he considers his “first big show”, singing in front of 60 thousand people at Lollapalooza in 2022. Even in a relatively short time, the Minas Gerais artist says he now no longer lets himself be dazzled by large audiences, like that who saw her sing this Sunday at Primavera Sound (to see how the show went): “I was more innocent. Today I have a different attitude, reality and moment. I’ve been doing it for a while, so I understand that I’m in my place.”
Marina received some journalists (including the Estadao) to the behind the scenes of the festival, after the show which was one of the few highlights of the last few weeks for her. Since last month, the Minas Gerais native has taken to social media to counter a slew of criticisms ranging from the size of her skirts to the use of the word “sarrada” in one of her songs. Although the behavior is not new in the artist’s life, she has also suffered attacks because of the shape of her face or the timbre of her voice, she admits that it ultimately affects her art.
“I’ve never been loved in my whole life, guys. I’ve always been an artist that people loved and hated at the same time. So I’m really used to that feeling, it’s not strange to me. If it interferes with my art, and in this way.”
“My art is as if it were a response to this (to criticism). But only psychoanalysis will tell me if this is really the case. In my behavior, in my art, I have this response. ‘Ah, are you so disdainful of me? Now you’ll see.” And I’m proving that I’m always better.”
The shock of recent weeks has not only affected Marina on a professional or public level. A few days before her show at Primavera Sound, her advisor, Jorge Velloso, and her ex-boyfriend, Iuri Rio Branco, responsible for the musical production of her first two albums, announced almost simultaneously that they would leave the artist’s career and they wished her luck from now on. Less than 24 hours later, she posted on Twitter: “Not all men, but still a man.”
Marina neither denies nor confirms that the allusion was aimed at both of them and simply says that the separation did not occur for exceptional reasons. “Everything has its moment, but it really has come to an end. There are roads that lead to other places and that’s something I want too. In order to surpass myself as an artist, I need to know when to end things. “
However, according to her, a part of the public seems to be rooting for her career to end sooner than expected: “People are rooting for ‘this is the last one’, ‘now it’s over’. But people, even if they want to, it won’t end because it is an inexhaustible source of inspiration.”
“I haven’t done it once or twice in my career,” says the artist, who before launching his solo career was part of two bands, A Outra Banda da Lua and Rosa Neon. “I’m not afraid of change. I’ve always been screwed up, not because I met Iuri. There are a million screwed up people in the world and I’ll continue to be screwed up. There’s no such thing.”
Source: Terra
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