Softly smoldering and breathtakingly weak, “Wannabe” aches from the within out as Ottawa band Pony Lady naked their souls in a superbly cathartic confessional – one in all a number of standouts off their newly launched sophomore album, ‘Laff It Off.’

Stream: “Wannabe” – Pony Lady

As you watch me in silence, I can’t assist however snicker a bit. Who’re you, once we’re all watching? I’m a wannabe…

As I hearken to the main focus monitor off Pony Lady’s model new sophomore album on repeat, I can’t assist however ask myself a well-known, age-old query: How can one thing so stunning be full of a lot ache?

Softly smoldering and breathtakingly weak, “Wannabe” aches from the within out because the Ottawa band naked their souls in track, exposing innermost fears, doubts, and insecurities by way of heat, breathtaking balladry and vivid, poignant imagery. One in all a number of stars off the newly launched Laff It Off, “Wannabe” is an invite to dwell within the depths of our personal darkness. It’s a cathartic confessional – an interior reckoning with the demons that hang-out us; a little bit of publicity remedy to shake off the weights that every one too usually pull us down.

Search for search for
There’s a facet to each idiot
My instinct
Is that all of us may study
a factor or two
Underneath mild
Paint me white
I’m a wannabe

Placed on a recent new smile
In your eyes, the moon
That I swear by
Within the night time
My love

Atwood Journal is proud to be premiering the music video for “Wannabe,” directed by Okay Collective and that includes Pony Lady’s very personal Pascal Huot because the clown he claims to be in track. The gently gutting eighth monitor off Pony Lady’s Laff It Off (out now by way of Paper Bag Information), “Wannabe” sees the band of Huot and Yolande Laroche crafting a comfortable and comforting soundscape full of shiver-inducing depth and wealthy, delicate, and seductive harmonies – all whereas Huot spills the contents of his very heavy coronary heart and soul. “Search for, search for, there’s a facet to each idiot,” he sings at the beginning, setting the stage for a world of brutal, cleaning reflection.

The intent is to not convey us or himself down, per se, however quite, to acknowledge and acknowledge the methods during which we are likely to convey ourselves down; to shine a light-weight on the harm we inflict upon ourselves by way of ideas and phrases unstated. There’s additionally a recognition that we’re all placing on fronts and faces; it’s for every of us a solo act, however everyone’s in on it as a result of everyone’s doing it. “My instinct is that all of us may study a factor or two,” Huot continues. “Underneath mild, paint me white; I’m a wannabe…“

Shakespeare instructed us that every one the world’s a stage, and we’re merely gamers. Perhaps we actually are all in costume on and off the stage; if life’s one large efficiency, who, then are we? What are we doing right here, and is something we are saying or do genuine? Is something actual?

These pervasive ideas, turbulent and churning, run wild on the core of a deceptively easy and tender track. “Wannabe” hits its peak in a fragile, delicate, and achingly intimate refrain rife with uncooked emotion:

I’m right here on your pleasure
Dressed to the nines as traditional
As you watch me in silence
I can’t assist however snicker a bit
Who’re you, once we’re all watching?
I’m a wannabe

For Pony Lady, this track actually is a second of cathartic launch.

“‘Wannabe’ captures a performer’s worst nightmare: Traditional stage fright,” the band tells Atwood Journal. “Pascal had a surreal expertise taking part in a theatre that made him really feel like a clown, and wished to exorcise it. Whether or not you’re a musician or just pretending to be blissful whenever you’re not, we’re all clowning in some type. On with the present.”

Step up, step up
Come shut and see how far I really feel
Excessive definition
As if it wasn’t clear
Sufficient for you
The worry of peak
Pearly white
I’m a wannabe

On the stage, I felt small
I’m the little man with the massive sufficient coronary heart
Laughing
Enterprise of clowns
Crying
Why received’t you snicker with me?

For all its brutal interior questioning, “Wannabe” is an extremely soothing seduction – a jazzy, dreamy enchantment able to mild a fireplace inside all who pay attention (or watch). Stream Pony Lady’s breathtaking new track and music video solely on Atwood Journal, and discover their sophomore album wherever you get your music.

A strong show of artistry and unfiltered humanity, Laff It Off is as irresistible as it’s visceral – an intoxicating show of Pony Lady’s shifting musical abilities.

I’m right here on your pleasure
Dressed to the nines as traditional
As you watch me in silence

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