Raffaella has shared her new single “BLONDE” co-produced by Hippo Campus’ Jake Luppen via Mom + Pop.
An energetic take on the possibilities and uncertainties of self-presentation, “BLONDE” is the product of a joke taken too seriously, paired with Raffaella’s love for a New Yorker piece on Joyce Carol Oates’s Blonde (a fictional account of Marilyn Monroe’s inner life). Produced by Hippo Campus’s Jake Luppen, “BLONDE” pairs perfectly with a Lizzie McGuire-esque, Y2K-inspired video.
About “BLONDE” Raffaella shares, “Establishing who I am through ‘BLONDE’ is a representation of my past (having been blonde for my entire childhood/most of my adolescence) and also my future (becoming my very blonde mother)… sonically matches the nostalgia of a blonde upbringing, the longing for a new personality that’s closer to the freedom I felt as a kid… I only really know how to be optimistic if it’s presented through some sort of defensive mechanism; be it humor or hyperbole”
RAFFAELLA LIVE 2022
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March 28, 2022 – Bowery Ballroom – New York, NY**
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April 15, 2022 – Sonia – Cambridge, MA**
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April 17, 2022 – The Black Cat – Washington, DC**