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King Princess is a young upcoming singer\songwriter hustling her way from Soundcloud onto the playlists of everyone on the hunt for new music, and if you happen to be looking for a song to line your long summer afternoons driving into setting horizons, heres the one.
The artist dropped her single "1950" on February 3rd which is also the first song to be released under Mark Ronson’s record label, Zelig Records, an imprint of Columbia Records.
Genius got candid with the young artist in an interview looking into the fresh single to which she revealed regarding the inspiration of the track :
"Queer love was only able to exist privately for a long time, expressed in society through coded art forms. I wrote this song as a story of unrequited love in my own life, doing my best to acknowledge and pay homage to that part of history."
This track acts as Princess' debut single and quickly grabbed the attention of many including Harry styles who expressed his appreciation through twitter.
Political connotations and literary references decorate every line of the song taking inspiration from theby the 1954 book, The Price of Salt, which tells the story of a love forbidden between to women of the time. The song paints in the colours of Post-war America where female oppression spiked vertically and was covered up with propaganda like " Rosie the Reviewer" subliminally encouraging women to take the jobs left vacant by the men who were drafted. After the war had come to an end men were eager to get back to the traditional dynamic of the working husband and stay at home wife which caused an uncomforting mix of both oppression and liberation.
In addition to that the artist also makes a tongue-in-cheek remark towards religion in the line which reads
"So tell me why my gods ;look like you, and tell me why its wrong"
History tells us of many ancient deities of all ethnic backgrounds from Greek to Hindu which were very often depicted in same-sex relationships as well as tales of intersex between gods and people.
Blast this lyrical masterpiece during the endless summer days spent on the grass or at the back of a pickup truck and celebrate love, love in itself.