Slovak Capitol Records pop star ADÉLA offers one of “PRIMA’s” most intimate moments with “Marijuana,” a one-minute-and-fifty-second record built around the intoxicating feeling of new attraction.
The song’s backstory is part of what makes it special. ADÉLA first posted a snippet in June 2025 with the caption “wrote this the other day. r[ea]lly fuck w[ith] it. life feels like 2014.” That rawness is exactly what “Marijuana” delivers on the finished record. It almost didn’t make the album – but fan reaction every time she performed it live changed that. And the 22-year-old Bratislava-born singer was smart enough to listen.
Apple Music described the concept cleanly – ADÉLA gets high on a new guy. So “Marijuana” uses intoxication as a metaphor for that specific early-stage romantic feeling where someone takes over your thoughts completely without your permission. The writing stays light and playful rather than heavy or serious – which is exactly right for a feeling this inherently giddy. Because the best pop songs about new crushes capture the joy rather than the anxiety.
At under two minutes, “Marijuana” is the shortest record on PRIMA – but its brevity is a creative choice rather than a limitation. The feeling it describes is immediate and overwhelming rather than slow-burning. So the runtime matches the emotion perfectly. By the time it ends you are already reaching for the replay button without thinking about it.
Within the PRIMA tracklist – sitting between the bare-bones experimental “Therapy” and other more complex emotional moments – “Marijuana” provides the album’s most purely fun, uncomplicated moment.
Stream “Marijuana” off PRIMA on Spotify and Apple Music and tell us – does this one-minute-fifty deserve to be ADÉLA’s next single?
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