When you flee the collapse of the Soviet Union and grow up in the country of Georgia, you’re going to have a different way of thinking and a different way of expressing all the things that make us human.
We all use music to express our emotions and our feelings but we don’t all use music like Mariami uses music – we especially don’t use music like it’s used in Miss The Show.
This is a song that forces you to concentrate on its many layers, and it forces you to do so with a tongue made of honey and a teaspoon of sugar rather than by blunt force.
Listening to Miss The Show is like having the Devil whisper sweet nothings into one ear while an angel kisses you on the cheek. There are devilish hints of a guitar just waiting to be unleashed, while the soft influences of Mariami’s ethereal voice shine through like manna from heaven.
If that makes Miss The Show sound grand and esoteric, that’s because it was meant to be.
“I wrote the song on a keyboard in the studio in LA before a trip to Tulum,” says Mariami. “I was really heartbroken at the time and this poured out. Sometimes when I pick up on grand philosophical themes, they get wired in through the sounds I create.”
The retro elements serve to add a rough edge to an otherwise silky production and adds feeling to the sentiment expressed by Mariami; this is a soulful song that came from a place of sadness. It’s beauty is tempered with harsh reality.
Mariami is an artist who has packed a lot into her short life and her music is an extension of her soul. It’s why her music and it’s why Miss The Show burst onto the scene and throws itself at our consciousness without doing it in a particularly muscular way; a unique skill.
With an expansive music career that includes two albums, five EPs and two singles plus an entrepreneurial spirit that should be the envy of aspirational America, there’s no surprise that Mariami is ready to take risks that others simply wouldn’t dream of.
“Why you running faster, life is better slow” Mariami asks and it’s the type of searching question that this whole song feels with its entire being.
Her sound isn’t pop and her sound isn’t dance. It’s none of those things but at the same time it’s all of those things and in a way, that’s exactly what she is. It’s designed to get in your head and get you on your feet in the way all the best pop songs do, but most importantly, it’ll make you a fan for life.