Feminist hyperpop that hits the Bierkönig as a submarine.
You can argue for a long time whether pop with a message actually works. However, Mariybu has compelling proof of this in the truest sense: in 2022, a man attacked the musician on stage and then told the police that her feminist lyrics had “triggered” him. Mariybu, who keeps her real name and private life secret, also provides plenty of trigger material on her new album FRECH. This is in the tradition of TicTacToe or SXTN and in complicity with Ikkimel or 6euroneunzig. The Hamburg native, who now lives in Berlin, also has her roots in hip hop, but has long since arrived in hyperpop.
That means: When they are in the album opener “An ideal” defends herself against the “ban on speech” and describes herself as “a bitch, a slut, a cunt”, the beat hits the twelve as if she wanted to conquer the beer king. In fact, you can easily imagine Mariybu winning in a large disco in Mallorca because the audience does not understand the aggressive sexuality and the lyrics as female self-empowerment, but rather as self-objectification.
But no matter how cheap and flashy the beats seem, the discourse is complex – and not just in the track “Not all men”in which she and rapper Ebow address the everyday occurrence of sexual assault. Finally, in the exceptionally beatless atmosphere “Lullaby”Mariybu then reverses the gender roles, sends the men home at night and reclaims public space for women: “A man needs to be protected / Above all from himself”. The message arrives.
