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Sofie Royer: Young-Girl Forever review – existential crises you can dance to
The Austrian-Iranian singer’s new wave style hits harder than ever on an excellent album inspired by a treatise from a French anarchist collective
Old-school European glamour emanates from this excellent album by Austrian-Iranian pop singer Sofie Royer – the stuff of chilled rosé on an Antibes balcony or discos in the Rimini summertime, away from the crassness of influencers and classlessness of fame. It’s a concept album of sorts inspired by the book Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl by the French anarchist collective Tiqqun, about “consumer society’s total product and model citizen”, namely young women. Royer gets swept up in existential reveries, whether about the role of the artist (Nichts Neues im Westen) or the power struggles of modern dating (Indoor Sport), dispensing droll pearls of wisdom: “Don’t mess with a girl that wears rabbit fur / I can guarantee that bitch has nothing left to lose” she sings on Young-Girl (Illusion).
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