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Arca (Music)

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Alejandra Ghersi (born October 14, 1989), better known by her stage name Arca, is a Venezuelan experimental electronic producer, songwriter, mixing engineer, and DJ.She is known for her futuristic, extremely detailed production (involving, among other things, non-quantized sequencing and microtonal manipulation), and her audiovisual work with filmmaker Jesse Kanda, which is usually very creepy and akin to a modern-day equivalent of the Aphex Twin/Chris Cunningham duo.Her work deals with themes of queer identity and sexual violence while often sidestepping explicit acknowledgement of it through lyrics. Many of her music videos, however, show these themes.Although she's recognized for her work with other artists, contributing to works from FKA twigs, Björk, Kelela, Frank Ocean, and Kanye West, her solo work is no slouch, either.
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Darker and Edgier
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Darker and Edgier: The material on Mutant is way darker, aggressive and industrial than it was on her previous album. Entrañas is even darker, featuring more abstract rhythms, heavier drums, and downright omninous vocal melodies.
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Epileptic Flashing Lights
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Epileptic Flashing Lights: Used extensively in the video for "Xen".
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Ambient
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Ambient: While this has always been part of her sound, it comes to the forefront in Madre and kiCK iiiii.
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New Sound Album
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New Sound Album: Her self-titled album in comparison to the first two, as it is vocal-centered. KiCk i heavily features elements of Neoperro. kiCK iiiii is almost entirely ambient piano pieces.
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Longest Song Goes Last
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Longest Song Goes Last: "No Queda Nada", which closes out KiCk i.
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Ethereal Choir
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Ethereal Choir: “Immortal� and “Hymn�, both processed in ways that make them sound even more otherworldly.
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Early-Installment Weirdness
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Early-Installment Weirdness: She used to have a project called Nuuro, which was just simple, glitchy electropop sung in Spanish.
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Body Horror
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Body Horror: Distorted figures resembling humans and animals are a staple of her work with Jesse Kanda.
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Sampling
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Sampling: "Baby Doll" prominently features "Beatrix" by Cocteau Twins. The original release of “Anaesthetic� features the iconic “Na na na na� off of Dr. Dre's “The Next Episode.� This was later removed in the 2020 rerelease.
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Lucky Charms Title
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Lucky Charms Title: &&&&& and @@@@@. How you pronounce &&&&& is anyone’s guess, but @@@@@ is also known as ‘Arroba’.
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Lonely Piano Piece
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Lonely Piano Piece: The pianos are either synthesized or heavily processed in bizarre ways, but it's there. "Peonies" is probably the most straight-forward example, but others include "Held Apart" and "Gratitud", which is a lonely harpsichord piece.
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Hell Is That Noise
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Hell Is That Noise: The intro to "Mutant" features harsh, glitchy bass sounds and what sounds like yelling.
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Drone of Dread
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"Sin Rumbo" opens with a Drone of Dread and stays there for most of the song, but the ending is a lovely piano melody. The Entrañas version zigzags this, as it has loud fireworks after the melody.
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Epic Rocking
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Epic Rocking: "Mutant" is seven and a half minutes long. @@@@@ is longer than any of her albums, despite being categorized as a single. Every track on Madre is longer than seven minutes.
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Horse of a Different Color
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Horse of a Different Color: The cover of kiCK iiiii and a scene of the Prada / Rakata video show a naked Arca riding a tapir in imitation of María Lionza, a goddess from her native Venezuela.
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Multilingual Song
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Multilingual Song: Many songs she sings in both English and Spanish.
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Siamese Twin Songs
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Siamese Twin Songs: "Prada" —> "Rakata" (who also share the same music video, to boot) and "Turnt" —> "Girasol".
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Humanoid Abomination
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Humanoid Abomination: Her "alter ego" Xen (from which her debut album is named after), is one of this. In fact, a lot of the imagery used in her projects seems to invoke this.
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Badass Boast
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Badass Boast: "Nonbinary," a song with a spoken-word like rap asserting herself to any detractors (especially in relation to her trans identity, as signaled by the title).
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Spoken Word in Music
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Spoken Word in Music: "Sanctuary" and "Crown" both feature spoken passages.
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The Something Song
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The Something Song: “Whoresong�
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Idiosyncratic Episode Naming
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Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: Each "kick" album is capitalized differently.
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Animated Music Video
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Animated Music Video: The video for "Prada/Rakata" is CG animation of Arca in the various settings on the Kick series' album covers.
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Distinct Double Album
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Distinct Double Album: The kick albums are a distinct quintuple album!
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Last Note Nightmare
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Last Note Nightmare: Arca's music tends to invert this, with tracks starting out horrific and ending beautiful. "Mutant" opens with harsh, glitchy bass sounds and yelling, only to end with gorgeous pads. "Turnt"/"Girasol" opens with what sounds like a woman screaming for her life, only for that to fade out into a haunting vocal melody. "Sin Rumbo" opens with a Drone of Dread and stays there for most of the song, but the ending is a lovely piano melody. The Entrañas version zigzags this, as it has loud fireworks after the melody.
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Fan Disservice
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Fan Disservice: The "Reverie" video dedicates a lot of screen time to her ass...which happens to be smeared with blood. The video for "Sad Bitch" has Xen dancing nude while wounds slowly grow on her.
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Shout-Out
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Shout-Out: “Esuna�,“Balamb Garden�, and “Spira� all reference Final Fantasy in their title. “Xenomorphgirl� references Alien.
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Self-Titled Album
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Self-Titled Album: Her third studio album, considering it focuses on her singing voice and all other name options felt wrong.
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Body Backup Drive
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Body Backup Drive: Diva Experimental on @@@@@.
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Title Confusion
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Title Confusion: "Waste" has often been mistakenly called "DM True" (which is actually the song directly preceding it on &&&&&); this can partially be attributed to it being referred to as such in the credits for the game Succulent, which introduced a lot of people to the song.
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Cover Version
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Cover Version: "Mother" is a reinterpretation of "Decisive Battle" from Final Fantasy X.
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One-Word Title
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One-Word Title: It's probably easier to count the songs that don't have one word titles.
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Title-Only Chorus
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Title-Only Chorus: Aside from the intro, “Rip The Slit� is almost entirely variations on its title.
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Squat's in a Name
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Squat's in a Name: She has publicly stated that from the album Xen, only one song title out of 15 has an actual meaning ("Failed", which is about her boyfriend at the time, Daniel Sannwald). This hasn't stopped people from further theorizing, though.
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Lyrical Dissonance
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Lyrical Dissonance: While it does sound a bit dark, the track "Desafío" from her third album is very upbeat, possibly the most accessible song she has ever done. However, lyrically, it seems to be about a painful breakup, from a submissive point of view.
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Intercourse with You
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Intercourse with You: KICK ii and KicK iii are full of these songs, but "Rakata" and "Señorita" stand out as being especially obvious.
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"Psycho" Strings
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"Psycho" Strings: "Family Violence".
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The Oner
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The Oner: The video for "Reverie".
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Surprisingly Gentle Song
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Surprisingly Gentle Song: KicK iii is full of industrial bangers about sex, but ends with "Joya", a love song without any heavier elements.
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Surreal Music Video
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Surreal Music Video: The modus operandi of anytime she works with Jesse Kanda to the point that some have started calling them the modern-day Aphex Twin and Chris Cunningham. Arca has even grown self-aware about it.
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Textless Album Cover
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Textless Album Cover: Sheep, Mutant, Entrañas, the self-titled, and the digital/streaming edition of KiCk i.
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