Apologies that it came off that way. Didn't mean to sound condescending or anything like that. An early morning post that I could have worded better. I appreciate her coming forward with her story and expressing herself. I'm actually not sure what I was trying to say at all.
I assume most of you don't watch The Voice, but the winner this year is one of my favorites in a while, her first single was written by Julia Michaels and Justin Tranter and is pretty solid!
'Káryyn grew up between the States and Syria with her mom and “badass classical guitar player” dad. (He was a doctor by day.) In her youth, for three months a year, Syria was young Káryyn’s anchor, a second home. Her Syrian-based relatives lived in Aleppo and the nearby city of Idlib, where they owned a hotel and restaurant before ISIS took over in 2011. After the country’s civil war spread to the capital, it became too dangerous for her to return. “I thought I’d get married there,” she tells me. “It is devastating to know that there’s an entire place in this sepia tone in my mind, dusty and bustling, that is gone.” She moved from Alabama to Indiana as a baby, and then, at age 10, to L.A., where she lives today. By her teens, she was writing hyperactive, narrative folk songs; her singing was inspired by Arabic music, and she says she played her guitar “like a machete.” This volatile oeuvre eventually won her an unlikely sit-down with a high-profile record label. “They made me listen to the Beatles for an hour,” Káryyn recalls, raising both eyebrows. “They told me, ‘You should do this, and then that to get here.’ I literally left. My sister was waiting for me outside, like, ‘That’s your way in! You have to go!’ I was like, ‘No, I’m going to do my own thing.’”' Káryyn’s Curiously Powerful Experimental Pop | Pitchfork K Á R Y Y N
Hey, I follow this thread but have never posted in it. maybe you'll like some of the artists on our record label. Here are some more recent videos:
Also, we have a new album out next week from gobbinjr which is streaming today in full on Noisey: Listen to gobbinjr’s Clever New Pop Songs When You're Lonely and Tired ty for your time and consideration~
The second single and title track off Meg Myers' upcoming album is out now. Kind of has a Tori Amos vibe to me
Saw Meg Myers at the Mercury Lounge in NYC last night and met her after the show! Judging from the new songs she played last night I think this album will blow Sorry away
Lol I read this as “I think this album will blow. Sorry” when I read it the first time and was very surprised that you’d say that