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GALA MARIA - "A Bite of Magic (featuring McKenna Gray)"

  • Writer: Adam Jones - MusicFarmer5
    Adam Jones - MusicFarmer5
  • 4 days ago
  • 2 min read

MUSIC FARMER 5 - Review by Adam Jones

Pop’s New Spellcasters Have Arrived

There’s a magnificent electricity humming beneath A Bite of Magic, the new genre-bending single from GALA MARIA featuring MCKENNA GRAY. It's not just a song—it’s a fable. A spell. A surrealist dream in sonic form. From the very first bass line, you know you're no longer in the realm of ordinary pop - this is music as mythology, wrapped in a shimmering veil of fantasy and femme mystique.


GALA MARIA's A Bite of Magic opens like a portal—the low, pulsing bass sets the tone, while percussive birdsong and Spanish guitar flutter around the edges like ghosts of another world. MCKENNA GRAY’s voice enters first, ethereal and echoing like a bard from a forgotten age, with a tone that's lilting and mischievous, steeped in the drama of folklore. It's not long before GALA MARIA joins—smoky, elemental, and slow-burning. Her voice arrives like incense curling through cathedral rafters. Where MCKENNA GRAY conjures whimsy, GALA MARIA brings gravity. The result is spellbinding.


Together, the two become twin oracles, narrating a tale of temptation, illusion, and metamorphosis. It's a cautionary tale, but one delivered with such ambiguity and dreamlike wonder that you're never quite sure who is warning whom—or if the danger is even real.


The lyrics unfold like scenes from a hall of mirrors: a mysterious apple, a crowned girl glowing from a balcony, a transformation into a tree. Love is won, then questioned. Freedom is glimpsed, then rooted in soil. All the while, the instrumental palette mutates and expands—Gwen Stefani’s punch, Fleetwood Mac’s mysticism, and Billie Eilish’s modern haunted house all echo faintly through the production.


The structure is deliberately fluid. This isn’t verse-chorus-verse; this is a story that twists and coils, drawing you in further at each turn. One moment feels theatrical and triumphant, the next hushes into something intimate and unnerving. GALA MARIA and MCKENNA GRAY are not just co-performers here—they are co-dreamers, narrators of a world where the fantastical becomes personal, and emotion takes on symbolic form.

 
GALA MARIA's A Bite of Magic opens like a portal—the low, pulsing bass sets the tone, while percussive birdsong and Spanish guitar flutter around the edges like ghosts of another world.
GALA MARIA's A Bite of Magic opens like a portal—the low, pulsing bass sets the tone, while percussive birdsong and Spanish guitar flutter around the edges like ghosts of another world.
 

The production, co-piloted by GALA MARIA and Thomas Frost, deserves its own applause. It resists formula, choosing instead to explore texture, space, and mood. Every element feels intentional: the lush instrumentation, the way vocals pan and swirl like a hallucinogenic breeze, the surreal pacing that mimics the logic of dreams.


By the time the final line lands—“when springtime is near”—it feels less like the end of a song and more like the end of a spell. You come to, blinking, uncertain whether you were listening to music or wandering through an enchanted wood.


GALA MARIA's A Bite of Magic (featuring McKenna Gray) isn’t just a song - it’s a deliciously mystical world of wonder - and once you’ve tasted it, there’s no going back.


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