Dorian Electra
| Dorian Electra | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Dorian Electra Fridkin Gomberg |
| Born | June 25, 1992 Houston, Texas |
| Genres | Pop |
| Occupation(s) | Singer-songwriter, musician, film-maker, visual artist |
| Instruments | Vocals |
| Years active | 2009–present |
| Website | dorianelectra |
Dorian Electra (born Dorian Electra Fridkin Gomberg, June 25, 1992) is an American singer, songwriter, video and performance artist. [1]
Career
Electra first drew national attention in 2010 with the music video I'm in Love with Friedrich Hayek,[2] which lauded the philosophy of the Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek and garnered commentary from the modern Austrian theory professor Steven Horwitz.[3]
In 2011 she released two more videos, Roll with the Flow and We Got it 4 Cheap. Both were covered by mainstream political media.[4][5] We Got it 4 Cheap came in second in the Lloyd V. Hackley Endowment's "Supply and Demand Video Contest".[6]
In 2012 she interned at production company Emergent Order.[7][8] Emergent Order had previously published Fear the Boom and Bust, a similarly intellectual, Hayek-oriented rap video.[9][10]
She then produced a new, similarly economics-oriented pop video, FA$T CA$H, with the support of an award from the Moving Picture Institute.[11]
In September of 2012, Electra released the music video Party Milk, which she describes as an attempt to merge common party scene symbolism with something one would never associate with a party, but that everyone is familiar with in another context.[12][13]
Electra drew criticism from Gawker's Maureen Tkacik, who criticized her as an example of "tween indoctrination" with libertarian ideas.[14] In 2013, Electra told The College Fix that she no longer identified as a libertarian.[15]
In 2014, Electra released a music video called What Mary Didn't Know, [16] based on Frank Jackson's philosophical thought experiment of the same name (1986). [17]
2015 saw the release of Electra's video Forever Young: A Love Song to Ray Kurzweil, a tribute to the futurist Ray Kurzweil.[18][19]
Education
Electra graduated from School of the Woods, a Montessori high school in Houston.[7] She attended Shimer College, a Great Books school in Chicago, from 2010-2014.[20]
Videos
- I'm in Love with Friedrich Hayek (2010)
- Roll with the Flow (2011)
- WE GOT IT 4 CHEAP (2011)
- Party Milk[12]
- Fast Ca$h (2012)
- What Mary Didn't Know [16]
- Forever Young: A Love Song To Ray Kurzweil [18]
References
- ↑ http://dorianelectra.com/
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