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Dorian Electra Just Turned Your Entire Music Library Into a Runway
You know that feeling when someone shows up to the party in an outfit so flashy and so smooth that we have to quietly sit with our own fashion choices? That's what Dorian Electra just did to the entire pop music canon — and yes, we should be excited.
Last week, April 22nd, Dorian dropped their fourth studio album, simply titled Dorian Electra. No grand concept. No elaborate mythology. Just an album full of covers — your songs, our songs, the songs that have been floating through radio speakers and grocery stores and dentist office waiting rooms for decades — completely dismantled and reassembled like a vintage car turned spaceship.
Let's be honest: you already know Shakira's Hips Don't Lie. You have known it since 2006, when it became, at the time, the most-played pop song in a single week in American radio history, spinning 9,637 times in seven days. It was inescapable then. It is a fact of contemporary cultural life. So when Dorian — the Houston-born, genre-defying electro-pop artist, known for music that sounds like a glam robot having an existential crisis — announced they were covering it, the internet had questions.
The music video dropped today alongside the album, and the answer to those questions is: yes. Yes, they went there. Yes, it is fully Dorian. Yes, Shakira's hips still don't lie, but now they're lying in a bed of hyperpop synths.
"I leaned all the way in and made a full album of covers, using the past as raw material to rediscover something that actually felt like me."
— Dorian Electra
That quote from Dorian tells you everything. The album reframes iconic songs as a self-portrait, revealing the world that shaped them by rebuilding it in their own image. This isn't karaoke. This isn't a cash-in. Dorian breaks down each track and rebuilds it into an off-kilter synth-pop jam that feels entirely on brand for them — familiar melodies placed in utterly unfamiliar sonic worlds.
★ Dorian Electra — Full Tracklist ★
Mr. Tambourine Man — Bob Dylan
Hips Don't Lie — Shakira
Hella Good — No Doubt
Feel Good Inc. — Gorillaz
Scarborough Fair — Simon & Garfunkel
Caribbean Blue — Enya
Without Me — Eminem
The Model — Kraftwerk
Young Folks — Peter Bjorn & John
Bizarre Love Triangle — New Order
Take a good look at that tracklist. Bob Dylan. Enya. Eminem. Kraftwerk. New Order. Gorillaz. If you went to a dinner party and someone claimed this was their personal desert island playlist, you would believe them and also never stop asking questions. That is a lot of ground to cover — several decades of radio history, all fed through the Dorian filter.
For pop music listeners who thrived on these songs the first time — who had Hella Good blasting out of a car stereo, who heard Bizarre Love Triangle echo through a college dorm, who danced to Feel Good Inc. at some function they can't quite recall — this album is going to feel like finding an old photograph that somehow also has a laser light show in the background. Disorienting. Nostalgic. Completely alive.
Dorian Electra is out now on all streaming platforms. And hips, as always, do not lie!
