Marinara’s Playful Video for “Adult Body” Displays the Temptations and Pressures to Resist the Adulting That’s Long Since Become Necessary

Marinara1_sm — Marinara, photo courtesy the artists

Marinara strikes an interesting note with “Adult Body,” the lead single from its debut full length album I Feel Like Dog due out November 8. The music video depicts scenes of adolescent hijinks in the kitchen interrupting the members of the band trying to do something as simple as cooking, an activity that we don’t often think of as adult but which really is. And cooking, not heating up a can of soup, making ramen or putting a frozen meal into the microwave. It represents the temptations to resist being an adult in even the most basic, functional ways as if we need to choose between being being responsible and having fun. The music, the kind of urgent, math-y rock that made and make LVL UP and Palm such interesting bands. The style lends itself well to being both introspective and a rhythmic urgency which Marinara uses to great effect during the course of the song not just to rock out at the end but to create an emotional contrast between the exuberance of youth tempered by the demands of being an adult that knows that partying every day and blowing off mundane responsibilities that need to be taken care of is no way to sustain the life you want long term. The video, directed by Alex Dzialo, looks like scenes from an apartment of a group of young men in their late teens and early twenties living together going to college, or first jobs out of high school and able to delay facing adulthood for a little longer with an exuberance that it’s dawning on them seems foolish and not really glorious because indulging your unevolved ambitious is not truly living your dreams. No one can clean up after you your whole life, take care of all your everyday responsibilities, make your band a well-functioning unit or sustain your best aspirations past the first wave of passionate impulses. It’s, frankly, a fun song about an unfun realization. The line “Never leave the apartment, the fun will never end” speaks so much about the personal epiphany expressed in the song and the necessity of breaking out of the cocoon of your immature self and the sophisticated ways this song embodies that moment. Watch the video on YouTube and follow Marinara at the links provided.