This gorgeous Pop piece “The Cage” by London based singer/songwriter Marie Naffah is one of the best Pop songs we have heard in months. The first few seconds of this song were enough to have us hooked! We fell in love with Marrie’s voice and we can’t get enough of it, we are stuck on repeat! She has an amazing talent when it comes to writing songs, there is a great level of songwriting that shines up through this record. Her vocal performance was catchy and very professional! The song includes some beautiful Pop melodies and catchy guzheng strings. The production work is smart and sounds very professional and the atmospheres of this record are so catchy, to be honest. Marie Naffah is a skillful artist and she definitely has so much talent! we are very excited to see where her career will go within the next few months and we will be sure to keep our eyes on her!
WHAT THE ARTIST SAYS ABOUT THIS SONG:
“‘The Cage’ is the invisible shell that sits around you like a tomb, stopping you from living as freely as you might like. It’s claustrophobic, oppressive, stifling and poison. For me, my cage was London. Your cage could be anything – your job, your doubts, your fears or your mother’s expectations. This song invites you to dance out of it.”
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
London based singer/songwriter Marie Naffah joins the dots between Florence and The Machine and Aretha Franklin, via insightful wordplay inspired by musical poets such as Leonard Cohen and Alex Turner, to create a sound and groove that is entirely her own: captivating lyricism wrapped in a soaring delivery that manages to straddle the line between timeless and contemporary.
Marie was named MTV’s Unsigned Artist of the Year before releasing a song. Now two singles in, she has done more than most: from delivering her own TED Talk and touring the US to scoring a movie for the BFI Female Film Festival. Her recent string of sold out London shows included iconic venues such as Omeara, The Lexington, Camden Assembly and Ronnie Scott’s.
In 2019 Marie took a road trip across the US. The journey proved pivotal in her development as an artist, inspiring her to create a new batch of songs that sit “halfway between London and Americana…new contemporary music with a brush of soul”. The resulting material is an EP recorded with Simon Byrt (Pixx, Charlotte OC, Babeheaven) and Neil Comber on mixing (Florence and the Machine, Glass Animals, Charlie XCX).
