Laura marling where is she from

After falling down a YouTube wormhole, Marling "had a full awakening" after hearing McCartney's song, Jenny Wren , a companion piece to Blackbird, whose lyrics depict a female musician's struggle to hold on to her talent amid poverty, societal oppression and heartbreak.

It's likely that McCartney's lyrics resonated with Marling, who has consistently challenged the narrow categorisation of female musicians. She never casts herself as simply the femme fatale or the lover scorned; the heroine or the victim; the mystic or the guardian angel.

Instead, she throws herself into the murky complexities of real life. As she puts it on one new song: " I love you my strange girl, my lonely girl, my angry girl, my brave Recently, the songwriter looked back at her emergence in London's nu-folk scene at the age of 16 - at how men would advise her to "lose the guitar" and become a traditional frontwoman, or how early press coverage defined her in terms of her relationships with Marcus Mumford and Charlie Fink from Noah and the Whale.

She came to realise and realised that "innocence being taken away prematurely" had been a major theme of her life, which is why the songs on her new album are intended "arm the next generation in a way that I haven't been armed". The culture didn't provide that. It's striking that her previous album, which dissected the male gaze and celebrated the strength of female relationships, emerged just before the MeToo movement took hold. How did Marling feel about those revelations, given her own experiences?

You're trying to get the story straight, and then [you realise] the story doesn't matter, it's just what the experience was. In order to be creative, you need a certain amount of naivety and a free playpen in which to be naive and remain unharmed. I think the taking away of naivety is one of the cruellest consequences of trauma.

But you can recover from it, is the long story short. Her comparative lack of ability on the instrument affords the song a simple melody, and lends a rare sense of comfort to the music. Marling has long been called wise beyond her years. It is true that her talent emerged young and that she has, with each new release, never failed to reassert her formidable expertise. For the first time in her already considerable career, she allows herself to shrug off some of the maturity that has come to define her, and give in to the simple pleasures of songwriting.

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Laura Marling was just 16 years old when she emerged on the British indie scene in thanks to a handful of infectious singles made available on her online profile. Endowed with a lyrical voice and a gift for building timeless-sounding folk songs characteristics that find her compared favorably to artists like Joni Mitchell , Regina Spektor , and Martha Wainwright , Marling quickly made a name for herself throughout England thanks to a heavy touring schedule and a few high-profile gigs, not the least of which included an appearance at the City Showcase: Spotlight London and as the opening act for Jamie T.

Although she was still without a label one year later, her debut EP, My Manic and I , was slated for independent release in the late fall of This status didn't last for long, however, because in early , signed to Virgin, Marling issued the acclaimed Alas I Cannot Swim , which also came as part of a multimedia Songbox package.

Marling completed a working holiday tour of the U. The record, which appeared a year later, was her third to be nominated for the coveted Mercury Prize. Plans for a fifth release were initially shelved in early , but by Marling had completed new material and returned to London to record the album. The resulting Short Movie arrived in spring And how would they know the complexities of it?

What can you do? She can think of one thing. The only practical thing that I can think of to do is to prepare my figurative daughter to fight her battles well, and with dignity. Join thought-provoking conversations, follow other Independent readers and see their replies.

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