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Two female 3D animations face each other, bathed in honey-coloured light.<\/strong> While their buxom curves suggest blow-up dolls, their round faces and giant eyes are reminiscent of the Bratz dolls that started a preteen craze at the beginning of the millennium. These are no sexless childhood toys however, since they begin a sensual game of seduction as a suave and sombre voice whispers to a frenetic rhythm: \u201cNasty, filthy, moving your body, so close, so close to me.\u201d The bewitching dance seems like an invitation, as the two impossibly proportioned bodies move their faces closer and closer \u2013 but without ever kissing. \u201cCome and get it if u need\/I guarantee you\u2019ll like the taste.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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The dissonant melodies and harmonies<\/strong> resonate with an aggressive eroticism, while the icily powerful beats plunge us directly into the damp moshing of a 90s rave. As hot as the music is cold, the bodies seek out and discover each other. It all seems like an audacious hybrid of producer Benny Benassi\u2019s acid techno and the sensual R\u2019n\u2019B of Cassie \u2013 influences which Shygirl, the strange author of the track, is quite happy to acknowledge.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\u201cDepending on the situation, some of these personalities take precedence over the others to control what happens to me.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n

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Though you might not guess<\/strong> it from her pseudonym, Shygirl is anything but. Indeed she\u2019s quite the reverse, having chosen her moniker to upend the stereotype. As a child in south London, Blane Muise \u2013 her real name \u2013 \u201csaid what I thought and started a conversation.\u201d Her head brimming with ideas, she began expressing them through texts and poems that filled up notebook after notebook. But while writing was certainly a cathartic pastime that allowed her to get some distance on what she thought and felt, she didn\u2019t feel it would be the stuff of a career, or at any rate not in that form.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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A few years later,<\/strong> however, and text has become the very essence of what she does. While Shygirl was working in a design office, with no intention of starting a music career, she began mixing at trendy London nightspots. This was how she met Sega Bodega, a prominent figure in the British capital\u2019s underground electro scene, who in 2016 offered to produce her first track, Want More.<\/em> The \u201cshy girl,\u201d who had only ever used the pseudonym on the odd occasion, emerged from nowhere as a fully fledged artist, reciting her lyrics for the first time in the monotonous voice that would become a trademark. After just a few months, the appearance of her first EP seemed like the release of a manifesto: to a musical backdrop that skilfully surfs the thin line between the anxiety-inducing and the aphrodisiac, as the voices intoxicate and Bodega\u2019s beats slam into the body with their organic rhythm, the notes grate and surprise, imbuing each of the five tracks with a studied disequilibrium. The whole thing takes on a strange magnetism that takes root in precisely this instability.<\/p>\r\n\n

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