Her high-energy on-stage persona is relatable and self-deprecating while remaining emotionally honest.
Katina Corrao isn’t from South Carolina, as far as I know, but Hot Date is a gleeful confession of ambition, frustration, success (toothpaste scratched off a pajama top), and musical mosquitoes, delivered with a glee — too defiant for church… It’s substance delivered with spirit, and that’s why it’s a great, funny album to hear and to watch.
It’s immediately clear that Corrao’s style is a bit different than what you might expect from the stand-up comedy scene these days. She takes a light-hearted approach to an often darker art form, willing to examine all the subjects that make being a woman in the 21st century so challenging: dating, weight, career, but from a whimsical, ‘can-don’t’ perspective.
When listening to Katina Corrao’s recent debut album, Hot Date, adjectives like bubbly and cheerful come to mind, despite the fact that her material focuses heavily on self-deprecation and her perceived flaws. But it’s her ability to power through said flaws that makes up her onstage persona, a persona that parallels her real-life outlook.
Corrao’s bubbling charisma brings an infectious energy to her story telling, undercut by her frustration at the ups and downs of show business.