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Re: Martika Making A Comeback
I don't remember how I stumbled upon this, but it was a few weeks back. I saw this girl talking about Martika on youtube. Thought she was cute, so I watched it. Turned out it WAS Martika. She looks pretty damn good 20 years later. Apparently there's a Toy Soldiers club. How I was a) not apprised of this, and b) not the founding member of such a club, I am not quite sure.
Anyhow, she's got a new single out. A new album. A new tour. In short. She's about to take over the world.
Seems like a slow build though. I checked out her video about a month ago, it had about 500 views. Now it's got 1,600. And quite honestly, I thought the song was AWFUL for the first minute or so, but I made it through the whole thing and didn't throw up. So that's good, right?
I'm not a great evaluator for "pop" music, but hey. You're looking good Martika. And that's all that really matters.
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Re: Martika Making A Comeback
http://www.noise11.com/news/whatever-ha … dium=email
Whatever Happened To Martika?
by Paul Cashmere on June 14, 2012
Martika is back but not because she has to. It is because she wants to.
Martika was only 22 when she “retired” from the music business and by that time she had already been doing it for 10 years. She says he made a lot of money and just wanted a break. That ended up being a 20-year break.
“I spent several years just being a professional slacker,” Martika tells Noise11.com. “I guess I had a delayed childhood. It wasn’t meant to be too long but a month turned into two years and then I just stopped wanting the pressure. I didn’t want to have the next year of my life mapped out ahead of time”.
She understands a lot of people crave to be stars but it didn’t work for her. “The jet-set lifestyle of what we do is quite a pace and it didn’t really feel right,” she said. “I don’t even know how all these stars can do it year in year after year after year but hats off to them. I just wanted to chill”.
Well before her 1988 hit ‘Toy Soldiers’ made her a global star she had been working in the business. “I had worked since I was 12 and made really good money,” she said. “I could afford not to have to go and work everyday. I was able to enjoy time with people in my life and explore some of the things that interested me personally not having anything to do with being in the spotlight. It was kind of like a personal journey of self-discovery that took me on”.
After time though, it felt right to get back into it and her upcoming tour will be the first time Marta has become Martika in over 20 years. “I came to find that music was in my blood. So I was always finding myself writing songs and the next thing I was back in the studio and then everyone was asking if I would put out another album. As soon as I started thinking about all it entails I would think “I don’t have to put this record out”. There’s enough people making music. But in the last few years I started to work on other projects behind the scenes and musical things but nothing related to the Martika catalogue. This is really the first time that I am reawakening that past catalogue of songs and putting myself out in the world”.
Re: Martika Making A Comeback
Cool to see her back. This song sucks though. Parts of it shows promise, some of the production, plus the ambient aspects. But it just seems to be her fucking around. There's no real song there. Plus it seems a bit dated. Real 90's black pop scene-feel.
But I always thought she was so incredibly fuckin' hot. She was probably the first latin chick that made me just wake up and check those chicks out.
20 years later, nothing's changed. Still hot.
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Re: Martika Making A Comeback
Yeah that was her major hit, of course sampled by Eminem years later. I liked quite a few songs off her debut album. She worked with Prince on her second album, Martika's Kitchen. He wrote this song for her, which was a top 10 single.
As for her new single. I felt the same way Axlin. I thought it was the worst song ever created when I started listening to it. But by the end there was some stuff in there I thought was pretty good. Overall though, not the breakthrough comeback single she was hoping for. She has aged very well. Her song writing skills, not so much. I'd like to hear more from the album. Maybe there's some better stuff on there, but I can't seem to find anything else.
Re: Martika Making A Comeback
She seems to be trying to channel M.I.A. with her newer music. Part funky, meets, rap, meets ambient pop.
The ambient pop aspects of the song are throwbacks to her glory days. The rest comes across as another former pop princess, like Madonna, who tries to "out MIA, MIA" and still doesn't really understand what MIA does.
Even MIA doesn't understand what she does or did anymore. That's why she sucks lately.
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