Mara V – To Be Like Everyone Else

Mara V's 'To Be Like Everyone Else': A dark dopamine rush in the digital age

Mara V, the up-and-com­ing Argentine artist, presents a cap­tiv­at­ing insight into her upcom­ing debut album with "To Be Like Everyone Else". The track skil­fully moves between the bound­ar­ies of dark pop and elec­tro rock, deliv­er­ing a power­ful mes­sage about the pit­falls of social con­form­ity in the digit­al age.

From the out­set, the song cap­tiv­ates with its crisp, power­ful syn­thes­iser sounds, which cre­ate a futur­ist­ic atmo­sphere. The dynam­ic com­pos­i­tion impresses with its per­fectly coordin­ated speed and the vari­ety of the dif­fer­ent ele­ments. Particularly impress­ive is the seam­less trans­ition between the elec­tron­ic pas­sages and the rock­ing gui­tar riffs, which give the track an addi­tion­al dimension.

Mara V's vocals are a high­light, altern­at­ing between power­ful out­bursts and haunt­ing, almost whis­per­ing pas­sages. The lyr­ics, with their allu­sion to the hunt for likes and fol­low­ers ("One hun­dred people, not enough / Get, get, get, get, get more"), strike a nerve in our time and give the song a deep­er meaning.

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Lyrics "Mara V – To Be Like Everyone Else"

Take a pic­ture of you
Make it look like it's true
Don't for­get to smile
Just pre­tend for a while

Take a pic­ture of you
Make it look like it's true
Tune your­self, baby
Make it look great, baby
Just pre­tend for a while

One hun­dred people, not enough
Get, get, get, get, get more
One hun­dred thou­sand, not enough
Get, get, get, get, get more
One hun­dred mil­lion, not enough
Get, get, get, get, get more
Get, get, get, get, get more
Get more, get more, get more

To be like every­one else
To be like every­one else
To be like every­one else
To be or not to be

Dopamine, dopam­ine
Dopamine, get dopamine
Dopamine, dopamine
Dopamine, get dopamine