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In a bedroom accented by lime green and pink decor, a 12-year-old Alexandra Lily Cohen hacked away at a bulky Toshiba laptop. It was 3 a.m and not the first time that week that she was awake into the wee hours of the night writing the next chapter of her Lord of the Rings fanfiction. This particular work depicted an ill-fated adolescent love story between the sons of two famed leaders. There was elven magic, war, a grand return from the dead, and a romantic connection that transcended time and place.
“I’ve always used storytelling and worldbuilding as a means of escaping the tedium of my own reality,” says Cohen. “They were some of the best tools I had for self-discovery, for exploring what held meaning for me.” Storytelling and worldbuilding are now tools that she employs in each of her releases as Dominic Sen.
Cohen views Dominic Sen as her musical proxy, and uses the persona to occupy an artistic expanse somewhere between myth and reality, weaving truth and legend together to yield music that is usually pop and always evolving. Like a great story unfolding at the fingertips, she entrances listeners with spellbinding hooks and nuanced tales that leave one begging for the next chapter.
Sometimes this mandate is more literal, as was the case with her debut album Visitor, a concept album where the listener followed an extraterrestrial protagonist’s feelings of alienation as she grappled with a strange new world. Visitor was simultaneously a love story, space opera, and thought experiment.
On her latest singles “Steakhouse” and “Lookin’ 4 Pleasure”, the worlds in question are crafted through emotion and sound. “Steakhouse” is a sugary bop meant to evoke the indulgence and the thrills of infatuation in all of its highs and lows. “Lookin’ 4 Pleasure” is a Y2K-inspired love song to the self.
lyrics
Spend another night alone
Well I can’t kill the urge to slowly
Slip my hands in, til I’m pantin’
And I’m riding the high
Ooo it’s just what I needed
To get my body wet and heated
In the darkness, feel the sharpness
Of my breath when I come for myself
Ooo yeah, ohh
Ooo yeah, ohh whoa
Ooo yeah
It’s a time in my life
When it doesn’t feel right
To go lookin’ for pleasure
In somebody else
It’s a time in my life
When I gotta make do
With the way that I know
My own body so well
(I know what I like)
Just trust myself
(What feels good)
To love myself
Gonna close my eyes and have
The space to make my heart beat so fast
And I’m trying, keep from crying
Too loud when I’m over the edge
Something spilling from my lips
Driving myself to bliss
Legs are shaking, so amazing
That I can do this to myself
It’s a time in my life
When it doesn’t feel right
To go lookin’ for pleasure
In somebody else
It’s a time in my life
When I gotta make do
With the way that I know
My own body so well
It’s a time in my life
When it doesn’t feel right
To go out on the prowl
When it’s just for the night
It’s a time in my life
When it’s easy to please
Only me
It’s a time in my life
When it doesn’t feel right
(Just trust myself)
It’s a time in my life
When I gotta make do
(To love myself)
It’s a time in my life
When it doesn’t feel right
(Driving myself to bliss)
It’s a time in my life
When it’s easy to please
Only me
credits
released May 11, 2022
Produced by Ronnie Stone and Dominic Sen
Mixed by Ronnie Stone
Mastered by Josh Bonati
Photo by Tonje Thilesen
Artwork & Design by Troy Curtis Kreiner
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