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Jarina De Marco “Identity Crisis”

“Identity Crisis” is an ALL CAPS song – bold and bright and loud and so overbearingly catchy that it might drive you a little crazy. There’s no holding back here, it’s all maximalist oomph and pizzazz, and that carries over to its extremely colorful and slyly political music video. The music needs to be this hyper and saturated to match the character and intensity Jarina De Marco brings to the table. She’s all flavor and zero timidity, and her lyrics approach the complexity of colorism within Latinx culture, particularly in her native Dominican Rebublic, with an appropriate blend of anger and pointed irony in order to put a spotlight on a poisonous absurdity. The lyrics and video lean hard on parody, but the song goes way too hard to be either a joke or get too serious.

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