"For a pair that specialize in giddy, girly EDM and brainrot electroclash-think Crystal Castles and 100 gecs by way of Nicki Minaj's "Starships" and Bangerz-era Miley Cyrus-meeting on Minecraft is perhaps the only logical origin story. And the best tracks on Beautiful Disaster, the duo's new mixtape, evoke the same feeling as the online realm where they first found each other: neuron-frying yet ecstatic and all-consuming."
"Like peer and past collaborator Ninajirachi, MGNA Crrrta are deep-fried diarists of the online girl experience. "BFF" is a high-octane ode to internet friendships ("We're twin sisters for real/In my Sims 4 world") that captures the sugar-rush mania of staying up late and FaceTiming until your eyes cross with cascading metallic synths and stuttering dubstep. "Infinite Pleasure" appears to chronicle the duo's Minecraft days, with references to anxiously awaiting the weekend and rising up against rivals."
Ginger Scott and Farheen Khan met at 11 on a Hunger Games roleplay Minecraft server and later formed New York electroclash duo MGNA Crrrta. Their mixtape Beautiful Disaster channels that shared online history into giddy, girly EDM and brainrot electroclash. Vocals are frequently distorted into near-incomprehensible textures, as on "Armageddon / Seventh Heaven" and "4me?". Songs like "BFF" celebrate internet friendships with metallic synths and stuttering dubstep, recreating sugar-rush mania of late-night FaceTiming. "Infinite Pleasure" blends Minecraft nostalgia and rivalry narratives with an earnest love promise delivered over maw-like bass. The sound balances neuron-frying intensity with ecstatic pop hooks and nods to online rituals and teenage nightlife.
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