By José Gandue @spinning zone
🎙️ Lisa Scha and her pop rebellion
Hear It's pop, stupid: Vol. 1, by the Argentinian artist Lisa Scha, This raises two topics for discussion (at least) in the mind of the author of this note. The first brings us back to our extensive and almost insistent assertion in which we assert that the most interesting aspects of contemporary sound, with a few exceptions, originate from the feminine and sexually dissident side of the music scene.
The second point, which may be an implicit continuation of what was stated previously, The fact is that today's pop music, especially if it's made in the independent and self-managed sphere, is much more interesting than what was done under the same label twenty or thirty years ago.
Let me complete the thought: What is proposed in today's Pop would have been censored or scorned at the end of the last century., since it contains a very high percentage of social and political rebellion, previously practically nonexistent in commercial circuits.
And the disobedience comes not only from the discourse or the words used in the elaboration of the protest, but also from the resonant freedom with which each composition is approached.
Today's Pop Art not only has more technological resources to innovate its textures, but also, He embraces his particular rebellion with more daring than, of course, rock music.
And who, after many years of censorship and official silencing, have the greatest need to challenge the status quo? Of course, women and the LGBTQ+ community.
🎧 A short, punchy EP
Lisa Scha presents an EP of 4 songs and barely 12 minutes in length, which combines indie pop with far from innocent lyrics, adding elements of strident and irreverent electronica, and hints of haughty hip hop. His style, to put it flatteringly, is a constant noise that effectively combines with a voice that adds a very sensual sweetness, with an untamed intensity.
🔊 Lyrics that make you uncomfortable
To understand what this is all about, you have to listen carefully to the lyrics of Omniscient, performed alongside Juana Rozas, second section of the plaque, where the following phrases stand out:
I want to be omniscient, to live all lives
One day I'm your wife, the next I'm your murderer
Summer is so short and I have so much to do
One day I can be Freud, and the next day your mom.
In Female Male, Scha combines the uncertainty of love with the eventualities of a hypocritical society:
What is love? Love is me.
There are so many clichés, it breaks my heart.
And the verbs so rotten from correction
Standards undermined by corruption
Even in Argentina there is a false liberation
And nobody looks you in the eyes because there are too many of you.
When they look, they get sickened and say, "It's not you."«
In Selfish, a fine jumble of rhythms and saturations with which this production closes, There is contempt, resentment, and spite, in a language that corresponds to the aggressive times we live in and that artists of other eras would not have dared to use:
You could one day be the morphine of my skin
You missed out, (Selfish)
Thinking only of you, you opened fire on me
Damned Cro-Magnon, (Selfish)
🔥 Noise, electronics and eroticism
In short: There is no room here, at least from what we see on the surface, for naiveté. These are four tunes to unleash the dance, invite everyday rebellion and, why not say it, continue redefining Pop., a genre that a few decades ago was a protected genre of the system, and today builds unexpected barricades.
Lisa Scha is a leading figure we cannot afford to lose track of in 2025 and beyond.
Cover of the album "It's Pop, Stupid Vol. 1", Lisa Scha.
————————————–
🎧 Listen to It's Pop, Stupid Vol. 1 in its entirety:
Want to discover more artists like Lisa Scha? Visit our section Females.
