Dorian Electra

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Dorian Electra (2018)

Dorian Electra Fridkin Gomberg (born June 25, 1992 in Houston , Texas ), known as Dorian Electra , is an American gender-fluid person who is known as a singer-songwriter and video artist . Dorian Electra's musical work combines electropop with various other styles. The self-released debut album Flamboyant was released in July 2019.

Life

Dorian Electra, named by her parents after the fictional character Dorian Gray , was born in 1992 to a real estate agent and an artist in Houston. The couple divorced when Dorian was five years old. Father Paul Gomberg is a hobby musician and is known in Houston as the "Rockstar Realtor". Mother Paula Fridkin works as a jewelry designer and was active as a singer and musical artist. Electra came into contact with her parents' favorite music (including Alice Cooper , David Bowie , Madonna and U2 ) as a child and attended several Rolling Stones concerts with father Paul . Electra identified herself primarily with male artists and admired androgyny . Electra graduated from a Montessori school in Houston and then studied at Shimer College, a college with a focus on literature in Chicago .

Dorian Electra describes himself as transgender and gender fluid and uses the singular pronoun they / them for himself . Electra was diagnosed with ADHD .

Career

Dorian Electra began making music at the age of 14 with a keyboard and GarageBand software . Inspired by a high school essay, one of the first videos was made in 2010, called I'm in Love with Friedrich Hayek . At college, Electra deepened her musical work and worked as a stripper on the side . In addition to songs as thought experiments , a web series was created in which Electra mimes a car salesman named Don Bogman. Electra then worked for the lifestyle website Refinery29 aimed at young women . Supervisors became aware of Dorian's music and had a number of songs produced with a focus on sex education . The result in 2016 were several humorous titles including videos on topics such as the history of feminism , drag , vibrators and high heels .

Working for R29 , Electra met many different artists who subsequently worked with. In 2017 Electra could be heard on the track Femmebot by the British musician Charli XCX . In June 2018, a highly regarded video on Career Boy appeared on the YouTube channel . After a brief appearance in the music video for Best Friend's Ass by Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike vs. Paris Hilton followed on July 17, 2019 with the self-released debut album Flamboyant . The 31-minute work was created with the help of a team of songwriters and producers and received critical acclaim, including from Anthony Fantano . From September Dorian Electra accompanied Charli XCX to selected concerts on her tour through the USA and Europe.

style

Dorian Electra's musical work is characterized by a mix of electronic pop music with other genres such as baroque pop , dubstep , queer core or R&B . Lyrically, Electra deviates from the universal themes of love and loss and instead focuses on feminist and philosophical emphases. Electra claims to have been indoctrinated with the ideology of libertarianism in high school and incorporated it into early songs, but later turned away from it. Electra takes an analytical approach to songwriting and writes songs like essays , with the thesis often becoming a refrain . Humorous rhymes are almost always used, for example in the title High Heels , which brings the rejection of high heels together with the French Revolution : "Monarchy is so last season / The feet of the elite smell like treason."

Each song is created with a visual concept in mind, which is why great importance is attached to the high-quality music videos . Here satirical and parodic elements, which Electra sees as tools in the fight against oppression, are of great importance. Most of the videos released since 2016 play with gender roles , such as Man to Man , in which Electra, dressed as a boxer, matador or knight, caricatures various stereotypes of toxic masculinity . Flamboyant, on the other hand, is an ode to the extravagant and contains all sorts of anachronistic allusions. Daze described the video as a " Sofia Coppola film on a gay spaceship full of plush sofas and chandeliers." With Career Boy , in which an office worker shows off the almost erotic relationship with his work and has to be revived with a coffee infusion after burnout , Electra wanted to take up a piece of Wall Street and make it queer. A running gag of the videos is that Dorian hits himself on the head with a bottle or other glass vessel.

Electra's optical trademark has been a thin, made-up mustache since a photo shoot . Daze called Electra " Liberace of Fantasy pop music". Above all, Dorian Electra makes her own queer gender identity a topic again and again. Compared to the Guardian , Electra stated that she did not feel like a woman who dresses like a man and called the identity determination "more complex".

"My art has allowed me to express who I already was, but more than that, I'm becoming who I am every day through my art."

"My art has allowed me to express who I already was and even more, I become who I am every day through my art."

- Dorian Electra : 2019

Discography

Studio albums

  • 2019: Flamboyant

Singles

  • 2016: Clitopia
  • 2016: Mind Body Problem
  • 2016: vibrator
  • 2016: high heels
  • 2016: Drag (feat. Imp Queen, Lucy Stoole, Eva Young, The Vixen & London Jade)
  • 2017: jackpot
  • 2018: VIP (feat. K Rizz)
  • 2018: Career Boy
  • 2018: Man to Man
  • 2019: Flamboyant
  • 2019: Daddy Like
  • 2019: Adam & Steve
  • 2020: Guyliner
  • 2020: Sorry Bro (I Love You)

Guest Posts

  • 2017: Femmebot ( Charli XCX feat. Dorian Electra & Mykki Blanco)
  • 2018: Open My Eyes (Ravenna Golden feat.Dorian Electra)
  • 2020: Gec 2 Ü (Remix) (100 Gecs feat.Dorian Electra)

Music videos

  • 2010: I'm in Love with Friedrich Hayek
  • 2011: Roll with the Flow
  • 2011: We Got It 4 Cheap
  • 2011: Party Milk
  • 2012: Almost Ca $ h
  • 2015: Forever Young : A Love Song to Ray Kurzweil
  • 2016: What Mary Didn't Know
  • 2016: Ode to the Clitoris
  • 2016: Mind Body Problem
  • 2016: The History of Vibrators
  • 2016: Dark History of High Heels
  • 2016: 2000 Years of Drag
  • 2017: Control
  • 2017: jackpot
  • 2018: Career Boy
  • 2018: VIP.
  • 2018: Man to Man
  • 2019: Flamboyant
  • 2019: Daddy Like
  • 2019: Adam & Steve
  • 2020: Guyliner
  • 2020: Sorry Bro (I Love You)

Web links

Commons : Dorian Electra  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gender Schmender: Dorian Electra's Hyperpop breaks down gender roles. In: YouTube . Arte TRACKS , February 14, 2020, accessed on July 7, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h Ben Beaumont-Thomas: Pop sensation Dorian Electra: “I'm not a woman dressing as a man. It's more complex ". In: The Guardian . July 12, 2019, accessed on July 7, 2020 .
  3. ^ A Chat with Dorian Electra. In: YouTube . fantano , March 24, 2020, accessed on July 7, 2020 .
  4. ^ Dorian Electra: Dorian Electra's in Texas. In: Shimer College. May 30, 2012, accessed July 7, 2020 .
  5. ^ A b c d e Brian O'Flynn: Get to know Dorian Electra, the Liberace of fantasy pop music. In: Dazed. April 25, 2019, accessed on July 7, 2020 .
  6. ^ Loving Hayek and Partying with Milk: Q&A with Dorian Electra. In: YouTube / reasonTV. February 24, 2013, accessed July 7, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Lloyd Crackett: Getting to Know Dorian Electra: Pop star of the Future. In: Purple Sneakers. February 2020, accessed on July 7, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Electra, Dorian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fridkin Gomberg, Dorian Electra (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION gender-fluid American singer / songwriter
DATE OF BIRTH June 25, 1992
PLACE OF BIRTH Houston , Texas