- 2024-03-04
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MUSIC
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Donate to support families affected by the crisis in Ukraine ➔ Sohodolls Releases New Song “What Kinda Love”
London-based electropop band Sohodolls, consisting of Maya von Doll (vocals), Toni Sailor (guitar), Weston Doll (Steven Weston) (keyboards), Matt Lord (double bass) and Paul Stone (drums), released a new song “What Kinda Love” on February 29, 2024.
The song was written by the band lead singer Maya von Doll when she was in a really bad place in her life and it seemed like her musical dreams were completely over.
The theme of this track explore the feeling of your life slipping away and thinking the only place you’ll find excitement is in your daydreams.
The band worked with producer Otabek Salamov on the track.
Maya von Doll said of the song, “I wrote this song when I was in a bad place in my life. I had put on a lot of weight during my pregnancy, suffered from insomnia and anxiety, was out of a record deal and suddenly didn't have the day job I'd always had. I had handed in my notice at my London office and was interviewing for new roles in the City when lockdown hit. I'd got to the final round of interviews for a finance firm and was banking on having a new career adventure but that all evaporated with Covid. I felt I was now in a lockdown within a lockdown. I had no music studio so I'd write this song on my walk to the supermarket in a scruffy tracksuit feeling invisible and like an utter unemployed failure. This was months before Bang Bang Bang Bang went viral giving Sohodolls a new lease of life and a new record deal.”- Se continued, “The song is about how drained, weak and unfit you feel post-pregnancy, poorer and despondent. And with that came the fear that I was no longer independent, attractive nor strong. I had been feeling for a while that my dreams were over. I didn't think I could ever find love nor be successful. So I thought 'All of my excitement will now have to come from my imagination because it could never happen in real life'. And then I thought about that thought - the power I have always had to retreat into my mind and escape or exist there. I would pass attractive people that I would never meet and I thought it would be great to write lyrics about an invisible person relishing in her power of imagination. In it she could have anyone and do whatever she wants with them. She could also be the version of herself she accepts.”
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Photo by Rachel DiBiaso / Clash Creates
Background photo by Catherine Harder - source : Apple Music
