Galxara Is Ready For Intergalactic Pop Domination
Her name is
Galxara (pronounced "Gal-ex-ara"), and her debut single "Waste My Youth" is out of this world. It starts with a near-operatic declaration, almost as if you've stumbled headfirst into a showtune: "Don't you know that my time's like a million dollars? / I could spend it anywhere."
It's a grand, theatrical reminder for the object of Galxara's affections that her time is so valuable, so meaningful, she might spend it anywhere in the universe. However the stars have aligned in such a way that mentioned individual is lucky enough to remain in this intergalactic pop star's orbit.
"Waste My Youth" swells to a crescendo reminiscent of
Freddie Mercury musicality as 19-year-old Galxara belts out the hook. It isn't up until the synths finally kick in that she's brought back down to Earth, reminiscing on night rides in a '85 sports vehicle with her preference person. She could be interstellar, yet her feet are planted firmly on the ground. The tone shifts: She
could spend her time anywhere, yet she's insistent on "wasting" the precious commodity with
you.
Whomever Galxara addresses on the song is naturally lucky. Nevertheless that's the only element of her burgeoning career that can be related to chance. This Miami native-turned-Los Angeles transplant is well on her way to skyrocketing to success with a larger-than-life voice and dreams of outer space. Get in, because she's about to go supernova.
Galxara shot into the pop stratosphere just a couple of months back in September 2019, however her introduction revealed a space-age, glimmering pop star fed a steady diet of glossy electro-pop and immense vocals. She’s not interested so much in making a character, although the person she truly wants to be indoors — hence, the story in back of her celestial moniker.
"I knew from the begin that I'd have to come up with a handle Galxara told MTV News. "I wanted an one-name thing. I wanted something feminine and grand. Naturally, with Galxara, it speaks to the full 'space vibe,' which is very big in my world. People were like, 'Pick a name, just pick a name.' Nevertheless it's a big deal. If this is who I'm going to be for the rest of my life, I need to love it." She made the decision early on not to use her real name, opting as a substitute for the ideal moniker that she would need to "love" to hear people mention and, ultimately, "live with."
"I just have to feel like I'm that person," she explained of her process. "I went through a lot of names to calculate what fit me. I got to Galxara and I was like, 'I can do this. I feel like this is me.'"
After selecting a name and signing with Atlantic Records, Galxara saw "Waste My Youth" land a spot on Apple Music’s Today’s Hits playlist, reaching listeners eager to hear the next wave in pop. The song's star was place on Earth as an assignment created in tandem with songwriters Michael Pollack and Oak Felder.
"I immediately went in and professed my love for Freddie Mercury, Queen, Gaga, and big, thick, huge vocals. We were like, 'Alright, we wish to do something that plays to that,'" she mentioned of the creation process beyond her first single.
"We just began banging on the keys and we came up with some melodies for the verses and stuff. Any time it came to the chorus, we sort of just came up with that melody," she explained about the track’s in-your-face hook. "Somewhere in there, I was just like, 'What about waste my youth?' That was just something I connected to." With the major concepts down, she set about laying down vocals, which are characterized by a sonic landscape of in-your-face belting, reminiscent of a classic Queen song.
"One thing during the complete song and during a lot of my music that sort of makes my sound is having these big vocals and harmonious, multidimensional sound. It's just big and grand and I love it," Galxara mentioned of the track.
"I love the fact that I sing all my vocals, and all of that is me. We had the idea of putting that in the starting of the song. Then we had the idea of, 'Well, why don't we strip everything out?' 'Why don't we not have any music and have it be a cappella, because how do you not get hit in the face with that?' Honestly, the intro is one of my preferred parts of the song."
The accompanying music video is a sleek, modern take on classic sci-fi, right down to the masked backup dancers and Technicolor visuals laced during. It’s an eye catching, spacey take interspersed with the kind of retrofuturism you’d visualize on shows like
The Black Hole or
Lost in Space. It’s all on purpose, needless to say, a piece of the image Galxara has cautiously cultivated.
"One of my preferred movies of all time is the original
Planet of the Apes. I love
Interstellar and
The Matrix. They've had a big impact on my artwork, colors, and graphics. I'm a big sci-fi lover."
In the clip, we visualize Galxara fitted with an ominous flashing helmet, hooked up to presumably some categorize kind of virtual conduit. She's likely controlling a kind of avatar for herself as she appears while in a number of far out landscapes. The visuals are pleasingly pulpy, with dancers clad in masks that would give Styx's "
Mr. Roboto" video a run for its money.
Later in the video, Galxara is fitted in a shimmery outfit as she relaxes on a classic vehicle reminiscent of a DeLorean, cruising through space. The out-there experience further solidifies the burgeoning pop star’s fascination with stellar style.
"The beginning route would have been me laying on the beach, just a regular video that a million people have done. I mentioned, 'No, I want to do something different,' and I wanted to have a story. I want there to be like a narrative to it," Galxara mentioned of the video, which definitely does have a story nevertheless also appears to be quite open to personalized interpretation. "I wanted to take my fans and people who hope to listen to my fans on this journey and take the to a different world. It's awesome I get to prepare that."
Galxara has another official single out right now as well, a reworked version of an earlier demo she released called "Killa Killa." Thematically, it’s a much different beast than "Waste My Youth," yet the swagger heard while in the galaxy heard on that record is very much present. Her full-length album release is still on the way, on which she'll get to present her powerhouse vocals on even further.
"I aspire to do something different and that's not out there now she mentioned. "That's in my music, every time I write, it's in my visuals, and just who I am, the way I dress and everything. I don't wish to be like everybody else, you know?"
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