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Etta Marcus: London storyteller’s dark

Life’s biggest turning points are often uninvited: breakups, job losses, moving away. Feeling untethered and adrift can force new perspectives. When Etta Marcus was in her first year at London’s Trinity Conservatoire studying jazz, the head of department called to tell her she didn’t belong there. As the daughter of two teachers, university had always been part of the south London singer-songwriter’s plan – but now that was gone, she didn’t know where to go next. “When I told my parents, I was sobbing,” she recalls two years later, browsing the world music section at a record store in central London. It’s a Friday morning and we’re among the first customers, but they’re already pumping loud electronic music through the speakers to kick off the weekend early. Marcus recalls her experience to NME distractedly, half her focus on the Brazilian samba records she’s sifting through. “I was so overwhelmed,” she continues, looking up briefly. “Jazz school was intense. The teachers there were like JK Simmons in Whiplash.”




Carl Nassib, the NFL’s Only Openly

The first album I ever heard was Speak Now, when I was in high school. I’d never heard of Taylor Swift. And all my buddies, my whole friend group, we were all listening to “Long Live.” And I was like, “Oh, man, this is a really, really good song.” And then I heard her songs at prom, and all that stuff. And I was like, “Man, she’s awesome.” So my friends and I went to see her on tour for Speak Now. And then a few years later, I saw her on tour for Red. And then a few years back, I saw her at the Reputation tour. 

NEVINS: Oh, so you’re a hardcore, card-carrying Swiftie.

NASSIB: Oh, yeah. Primetime. One-thousand percent.

NEVINS: Is Taylor ever played in the locker room?

NASSIB: On my headphones, yeah.

NEVINS: Have you ever heard Tom Brady [Nassib’s teammate] play Taylor?

NASSIB: I have not.

NEVINS: I wonder if there are Swifties throughout the NFL that we don’t know about. 

NASSIB: One-thousand percent. I think that there are Swifties everywhere. I can’t even count how many people came up to me in my building, and amongst my friends, to ask me about the album because they all know I’m a diehard T-Swift fan and my response has been, “It’s perfection.”

08/11/2022

Samia wrote her bruising and brilliant debut album

It sounds like staring numbly into nothingness. And then a voice swells up. In Arabic, a woman sings a child’s nickname, her voice distorted beneath layers of fuzzy, phone line feedback: the last voicemail the musician Samia’s grandmother left her before she passed away three years ago. They both shared the same name; the song a symbol of her Lebanese heritage that’s been passed down through her family tree. It’s a comfort to her, one that opens her debut album, The Baby. A reminder that she’s not alone. 

“I am the baby,” Samia admits, speaking via video call from her home in New York. The 23-year-old is proud of how much she relies on being cared for by others. So much so, in fact, that it’s informed what she calls the “thesis” of the record she’s spent much of her adult life building up to. “Part of the story of this album emotionally was accepting that I need people,” she says. “I always had an overwhelming fear of loneliness; I wanted that to be a part of who I am.”

08/11/2022

Etta Marcus: London storyteller’s dark

Life’s biggest turning points are often uninvited: breakups, job losses, moving away. Feeling untethered and adrift can force new perspectives. When Etta Marcus was in her first year at London’s Trinity Conservatoire studying jazz, the head of department called to tell her she didn’t belong there. As the daughter of two teachers, university had always been part of the south London singer-songwriter’s plan – but now that was gone, she didn’t know where to go next. “When I told my parents, I was sobbing,” she recalls two years later, browsing the world music section at a record store in central London. It’s a Friday morning and we’re among the first customers, but they’re already pumping loud electronic music through the speakers to kick off the weekend early. Marcus recalls her experience to NME distractedly, half her focus on the Brazilian samba records she’s sifting through. “I was so overwhelmed,” she continues, looking up briefly. “Jazz school was intense. The teachers there were like JK Simmons in Whiplash.”

08/11/2022

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