TooPoor - Crazy Girls
Punk pop artist TooPoor just released her debut music video – “Crazy Girls.” The track is about a dysfunctional relationship and verifies the contemporary adage: “It takes two to toxic.”
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Layla Shapiro, aka TooPoor, got her start as a fashionista/style influencer on Instagram, where she developed a massive following of more than 500,000. Featured in media outlets like Galore, Bullet Magazine, The Cobra Shop, and Complex, ostensibly she’s the proprietor of a boutique store called Shop Too Poor, featuring vintage clothing.
Multi-talented, TooPoor has decided to expand her horizons, taking on the world of music.
According to TooPoor, "As a creative, I feel like I've done it all, and shared it with the world. All except music. I wanted to start writing/singing to leave something on earth that would live forever. I wanted to share a part of me that would never die."
“Crazy Girls” opens on fuzzed out guitar riffs topped by TooPoor’s wicked femme fatale tones, like Avril Lavigne crossed with Cruella De Ville. A cavernous bass line, austere yet vastly muscular, along with skintight drums drive the rhythm with hefty rough and ready impacts. Spartan harmonics, reminiscent of Jack White, avoid any type of sophistication and go in for turbulent, palpable energy.
The mood and feel of the music and lyrics is raw, edgy, and so buff it hurts.
The video, directed by Mezzy, is sexy, visceral, flamboyant, and visually chaotic in a deliciously eccentric way, reflecting the nonchalant caprice of intrinsically maladaptive romantic liaisons.
Lyrically, the song infers the truth of what’s going on in the relationship directly from clashing emotions.
“Just cause I'm fucked up it doesn't mean I don't feel / If you scream at me a little louder / Let me know it's real / You're my enemy and my remedy / But if you're not gonna bleed for me, go / You're my enemy and my remedy / But if you're not gonna bleed for me, go (go).”
I really liked “Crazy Girls.” It’s raw to the point of being bloody, while the harmonic severity gives it beau coup mass. TooPoor has it going on!
