Who is laura marling

The approach is most apparent on the album's closing track, For You, a simply-strummed love song, written at home with her boyfriend.

The song, she says, is a "little homage" to Paul McCartney at his warmest and most open-hearted. She's a late convert to the former Beatle, having previously been a steadfast Lennon fan. After falling down a YouTube wormhole, Marling "had a full awakening" after hearing McCartney's song, Jenny Wren , a companion piece to Blackbird, whose lyrics depict a female musician's struggle to hold on to her talent amid poverty, societal oppression and heartbreak.

It's likely that McCartney's lyrics resonated with Marling, who has consistently challenged the narrow categorisation of female musicians. She never casts herself as simply the femme fatale or the lover scorned; the heroine or the victim; the mystic or the guardian angel. Instead, she throws herself into the murky complexities of real life. As she puts it on one new song: " I love you my strange girl, my lonely girl, my angry girl, my brave Recently, the songwriter looked back at her emergence in London's nu-folk scene at the age of 16 - at how men would advise her to "lose the guitar" and become a traditional frontwoman, or how early press coverage defined her in terms of her relationships with Marcus Mumford and Charlie Fink from Noah and the Whale.

She came to realise and realised that "innocence being taken away prematurely" had been a major theme of her life, which is why the songs on her new album are intended "arm the next generation in a way that I haven't been armed". The culture didn't provide that. It's striking that her previous album, which dissected the male gaze and celebrated the strength of female relationships, emerged just before the MeToo movement took hold.

How did Marling feel about those revelations, given her own experiences? You're trying to get the story straight, and then [you realise] the story doesn't matter, it's just what the experience was.

The title track of her new album depicts a woman whose " clothes [are] on the floor, taking advice from some old, balding bore, " a cautionary tale, based on stories she's heard from "every single female friend, and a fair few male friends too". The album, which reached number six in the U. AllMusic relies heavily on JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript in your browser to use the site fully. Blues Classical Country.

Electronic Folk International. Jazz Latin New Age. Aggressive Bittersweet Druggy. Energetic Happy Hypnotic. Romantic Sad Sentimental. Sexy Trippy All Moods. So she walked into court on the morning of her marriage and she stabbed herself in the chest, and her blood was indeed black. And she died. Enjoy unlimited access to 70 million ad-free songs and podcasts with Amazon Music Sign up now for a day free trial. I found my way through the very complicated reparative process, and it turns out to be quite a cheery album, which is a blessing.

It paints a complicated picture. Some women, says Marling, are bred to be obedient. Weinstein going to jail is the most satisfying outcome, and anybody who can be prosecuted should be prosecuted, but we must also pay attention to the gap in the law that makes it very, very difficult for women to tell their stories.

Marling — who left school after her GCSEs, moving from Berkshire to London to focus on music — is currently doing a masters in psychoanalysis. I think the only way that the culture will recover from those really entrenched injustices is to provide a generation with the ability to police their own boundaries.

That is just a wall. If you just keep aggravating it, will it just keep being aggravated? And how would they know the complexities of it? What can you do?