By Megan Duenas
Co Editor in Chief
In Mary Lambert’s debut song, “Secrets,” the moral emerges about what it means to surrender the notion of constantly filing under societies norms of acceptance. Mary Lambert digs deeper than the surface of today’s eras songs, she surfaces above many, because she challenges what people see as beautiful for the realistic. Mary talks about many issues that young people face in our society with physical appearance, sexuality, fears and what we are taught from an early age.
The Seattle native began her career in Macklemore’s and Ryan Lewis song “Same Love,” and since then launched with her own album, beginning with Secrets. Her upbeat tones and the music video that concludes the whole message of acceptance proves an emerging and new image of what we see as the new pop culture. Mary brings her identity synthesizing with her rhythm to bring out a voice and idol that will be perceived as the new fling in music.
Mary Lambert is more than a new upcoming artist, but an advocate for coming out as who we are without the judgements of people who honestly, don’t matter. Through her songs and her stories, she has received much positive feedback, an inspiration for not only teens trying to find their way, but for people who struggle to accept themselves and who they really are.
Secrets deals with the “non-glamorous” side of what would not normally be in a new pop song, it relates to what Mary and many other young people feel, and it evidently proves that she is one to watch.