Song Review - Drella - ‘Until the morning’
REVIEW BY: ISABELLA URETA
This artist is quite talented, I’m surprised I haven't heard him before, he seems like someone who is going to make it to the charts for sure. The song and the video compliment each other, and Drella has a beautiful voice and the total style of an Artist.
I really enjoyed the video and the song, but couldn’t find the lyrics anywhere. It's nice to read the lyrics and listen to the song at the same time, it makes you bond with it so much more. Good luck to him and his career, hope to see more of his work in the future.
ABOUT DRELLA
Drella fell in love with music at an early age. As a kid traveling to his parents’ native Macedonia, he would get up to sing with bands playing in restaurants. By late high school, he was writing and producing tracks for other artists and pitching himself to major labels around the world. This led to studio time in Stockholm with some of Sweden’s most illustrious hitmakers, including The Wolf Cousins team, who have penned hits for the likes of The Weeknd, Ariana Grande, and Dua Lipa. He knew that he didn’t ultimately want to make music in the same style, but he did learn a huge lesson about never settling. “They were so disciplined about making sure every element of the track flows and feels the best that it possibly can,” he says. “I’d never been in a room with dedication like that, just striving for the perfect balance of style and sound that I could later take apart and re-formulate.”
It was while reading an art book about Andy Warhol that musician Bobi Andonov learned that Warhol’s close friend, the legendary rocker Lou Reed, had nicknamed Warhol “Drella” - a portmanteau of Dracula and Cinderella. “I loved that so much - I just love the idea that two opposite things make so much sense together,” says Bobi, who has adopted Drella as his own artist name. “I’ve always felt a little bit that way as well and I feel like that describes my music too - there are a lot of different elements that you wouldn’t think work together, but they do”.
Like his namesake, Drella is a pleasure of contradictions, at once glittering and dark. Themes of desire and friction wrestle with interpersonal relationship dynamics, as he bends and twists pop music to his off kilter will. Somewhere between his emotion-laden and effortless Dr. Jeckyll falsetto, and his raspy and booming Mr. Hyde, Drella channels vagabond emotions into a unique juxtaposition of light and shade. Shaped by pop iconoclasts such as Prince, Terence Trent D’Arby, and Michael Hutchence, and influenced by contemporary artists like Tame Impala, Dijon, The1975, and Jai Paul, Drella exudes a sensual confidence similar to this ragtag team of idols - unfettered by expectations and unapologetically himself.
