Page 29 - ARUBA TODAY

A29
PEOPLE & ARTS Tuesday 26 March 2019

Country duo Maddie & Tae return with new label, new music

By KRISTIN M. HALL we’ve never talked about
Associated Press or should we just go for it?
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — And we went for it.”
Two years ago, country While they’ve been ad-
duo Maddie & Tae dressing the gender dispar-
were in the studio working ity issues in country music
what they thought would since the beginning of their
be their sophomore record careers, the problem has
on Dot Records. Maddie only gotten worse since
Marlow and Taylor Dye “Girl in a Country Song.”
were both just 18 when In December, there were
they signed their record weeks where no women
deal and had a successful were in the top 20 of Bill-
debut album “Start Here” board’s Country Airplay
with a No. 1 platinum de- chart for the first time since
but single “Girl in a Country its launch in 1990.
Song,” a roasting of gender Maddie & Tae have
stereotypes in contempo- released three songs from
rary country music. Expec- their forthcoming album
tation was high for their already, but only one has
follow-up record. made it to the Top 35 of
Then they got the call: their the country airplay chart.
label was shutting down. In this March 20, 2019, photo, Madison Marlow, left, and Taylor Dye, of the duo Maddie & Tae, pose They’ve had more success
“We were completely in Nashville, Tenn. outside of the FM dial, with
blindsided and just trying to Associated Press satellite radio embracing
figure out how do we put low said. “So it was a huge a chance at a second re- women in a male-dominat- “Die From a Broken Heart,”
out music for our fans,” said blessing in disguise and cord. ed industry. There’s more and they are included on
Marlow, now 23. How do there’s no ill will.” “A lot of people named it than one breakup song on two of Spotify’s country
we recover from this?” When “Girl in a Country novelty or a one-hit won- the EP, which is a bit of a playlists. Additionally they
Now nearly four years after Song” hit in 2014, the air- der,” said Dye, also 23. “But reflection of how they felt are opening for Carrie Un-
releasing their first album, waves were awash in bro we just knew that was just a after Dot closed. The title derwood on her arena tour
the duo is releasing their country tropes about wom- side of us that we were go- track “One Heart To Anoth- that starts this May.
first EP under their new label en as objects of desire. ing to show first and there er” shows the vulnerability JR Schumann, SiriusXM’s
Mercury Nashville. “One Marlow, from Sugar Land, was going to be multiple in getting dumped by a se- senior director of country
Heart to Another,” out on Texas, and Dye, from Ada, sides to follow after that. So rial heartbreaker, but with- music programming, said
April 26, will have five songs Oklahoma, were lauded we never really let it get to out any anger or jealousy he immediately latched
with a full album coming by critics for their beautiful us in a standpoint of mak- toward the other woman. onto “Die From a Broken
later this year. harmonies and songs that ing us doubt who we are “We went to the writing ses- Heart” and started putting
During the time it took to earned them comparisons and what we do.” sion and we just said, ‘OK, it in heavy rotation on their
transition to a new label, to the Dixie Chicks. Their Considering they wrote you know what? Industry channel “The Highway.”
they decided to focus on subsequent singles, “Fly” their first album when they aside, radio aside, every- “It connects on a personal
writing and going deeper and “Shut Up and Fish,” weren’t even of drinking thing else aside, what do and emotional level that
than they were able to get made it to the Top 10 and age, the new music shows we want to say?’” Dye said. I haven’t seen in a long
on the first record. the Top 25 respectively a more sophisticated side, “Do we want to be bolder? time,” Schumann said. “Ev-
“If it weren’t for Dot clos- on the Billboard Coun- a maturity reached from What do we want this next ery time we played it, es-
ing and us having to com- try Airplay chart. But they having setbacks and the record, this next phase of pecially early on as people
pletely start fresh, we would also were conscious that realization that they’re us to look like? And are we were discovering it, our so-
not have the body of work people might pigeonhole just going to have to work going to be scared and cial media platforms would
that we have now,” Mar- them before they even got harder because they are shy away from things that literally light up.”q

New exhibit of items from Tutankhamun’s tomb comes to Paris

By SYLVIE CORBET to commemorate the up- painted in bright gold and
Associated Press coming centenary of Brit- blue, and jewelry decorat-
PARIS (AP) — A new ex- ish archaeologist Howard ed with lapis lazuli scarabs.
hibit of artifacts from the Carter’s 1922 discovery Curator Tarek El Awady
tomb of ancient Egyptian of Tutankhamun’s intact said the exhibit attempts
pharaoh Tutankhamun tomb and the treasures it to answer “the most com-
is opening in Paris more held. Paris, where the ex- mon question about why
than 50 years after a simi- hibit opens to the public ancient Egyptians buried
lar exhibit set a visitor at- Saturday at the Grande treasures like this” with
tendance record that still Halle de la Villette, is the dead pharaohs.
stands in the French capi- second stop of a 10-city Tutankhamun might have
tal. The entrance placard of ‘Tutankhamun, the treasure of the tour that started in Los An- used some items on dis-
Organizers said the 150 Pharaoh’, an exhibition in partnership with the Grand Egyptian geles. The artifacts include play, like a pair of gloves,
items in the exhibit, titled Museum at the Grande Halle of La Villette in Paris, France, gilded wooden statuettes, during his short life. He was
“Tutankhamun, Treasures Thursday, March 21, 2019. including one of Tutankha- 9-years-old when he be-
of the Golden Pharaoh”, Associated Press mun riding a black pan- came pharaoh and ruled
are traveling outside Egypt they go into a new mu- mids. ther, a miniature coffin ancient Egypt until he died
for the last time before seum near the Giza pyra- The exhibit was assembled for the pharaoh’s viscera at age 18 or 19.q