The debut album of Miya Folick, Premonitions, was only released last fall, but the artist from Los Angels is back with a new track. Today, the shapeshifting musician releases “Malibu Barbie,” a persistent itch of a song about materialism and demanding standards of beauty or its lack.
“I’ve never learned to pretend to be Malibu Barbie,” sings Folick in the choir. “I think I’d rather be Malibu Barbie.” Folick framed the track as such in a series of social media posts: “I grew up without a language of beauty. My mother never talked about being beautiful, or being ugly, or losing weight.
I think a vacuum has been created by the absence. I sucked it in when the language introduced itself and let those words fill my brain’s nooks and crannies. Until I was soaked in it every thought and feeling. That language of beauty. So I hope you know I didn’t have a choice. I was going to have to kill it.
Listen below.