The second single following “Summer love,” “Deadtome” cranks down the signature MGNA Crrrta girl EDM extravaganza and bombastic, banger beat drops to deliver some surprisingly existentialist songwriting. On slightly glitchy electropop synths, the New York City-based bestie duo (Ginger Scott and Farheen Khan) ponder upon freedom and escapism as they paint such a beautiful picture of reality just to want to fly away from it.
With a dreamy, DIY Picsart-core music video that looks like it was filmed on iMovie and did numbers on Tumblr, the track takes you straight back to summer 2016: “Morning bliss lit by sunsets / Cranked down windows, road raging heaven / Tongue’s red, blue, dollar slushies / You look over at me, I’m sweating / Dirty bruises on my knees / Intruding and shoplifting sprees.”
While the production is much more restrained, if not outright reserved, than the loud, trashy 2010s Uffie-inspired electronic chaos MGNA Crrrta have become so beloved for, the almost hopeless thesis statement of the song underneath all its visual whimsy: “I don’t think we’ll ever be free,” still makes “Deadtome” an exciting experiment for the two. This contrast — of dancing knowing you’re just escaping and going out and having fun so you don’t cry — also very cleverly speaks to the renewed appeal of EDM and the 2016 nostalgia wave that their whole discography so explicitly embraces.
A little sonic maneuver from the unapologetic Beautiful Disaster, “Deadtome” actually sets MGNA Crrrta a bit further apart from the now saturated partygirl music scene.
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