The soundtrack to your dreamiest romance, “your favorite girl” aches with soft pastel hues and soothing pop melodies as Brooklyn-based bedroom pop artist country girl gently sweeps us off our feet.
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[It’s] a song about the movie scenes we film, direct, and act in our heads while in the frenzy of a crush…
The soundtrack to your dreamiest romance, country girl’s sophomore single is a sweet seduction.
It’s a song embracing love’s idyllic euphoria; of finding your person and leaning in; of two hearts and souls becoming one; of the deepest kind of intimacy and connection. Released August 14th via FADER Label, “your favorite girl” aches with soft pastel hues and soothing pop melodies as country girl gently sweeps us off our feet. The Brooklyn-based bedroom pop singer/songwriter debuted with the song “tastes like cherry” in late February and remains nameless, letting their music – self-described as a blend of classical (they studied composition at Juilliard) with “modern pop craft” – speak for itself.
And in just two and a half minutes, “your favorite girl” has quite a lot to say. Dulcet guitars and saccharine synths create a lush soundscape, over which tender drums shuffle us forward and the artist spills his heart:
I wanna be your favorite girl
I wanna mess with your curls
I wanna tell you all the time
But once I start I get shy
I’d be your favorite girl
I’d wear your shaggy sweater
in the morning light
I’d be your ocean pearl
If you’d let me,
I’d be your favorite girl
“‘your favorite girl’ is a song about the movie scenes we film, direct, and act in our heads while in the frenzy of a crush, how we cast ourselves as the female lead, the desire to adore and be adored,” country girl tells Atwood Magazine. “That feeling, at the end of the night, cheek against the pillow, with the AC purring, that we all just want to be someone’s favorite girl… ya know?”
“The creation of the song was pretty simple: After I’d demo’d all the parts in my bedroom studio, I hit up friends in various bands around NY (Max from Porches, Sam from Test Subjects, Saguiv from YHWH Nailgun) for us to rerecord the drums, rhythm guitar, and bass guitar on better gear. I was pretty set on bouncing all the stems to tape, but I’d also heard many horror stories from tape-machine-owning friends of mine about the constant expensive repairs involved, so I ended up finding this spot Phaser Studios outside Milan that prints your stems to tape for cheap. I mixed the song myself, and having all the parts in tape form really helped me bring the song into the warm soundworld I was looking for.”
I wanna see you at the show
I’m standin in the front row
I wanna pull you through the crowd
Just so we’re holding hands now
I wanna drive you home at night
I want your head dozed on my side
While we laugh at all the fools
That we knew in grade school
country girl likens his music to a “sticky New York summer,” but the heat and charm of his first two songs is transferable.
I’d just as readily call his sound that of a “tranquil New York fall” and a “cozy New York winter.” Love doesn’t have a season; it transcends the boundaries of time, ebbing and flowing and growing as you nurture that special bond that so many of us long for, and so many of us cherish.
Basking in a cinematic light, “your favorite girl” is an ode to that intimate and inimitable force – to the genuine joy, warmth, and beauty of the most vulnerable kind of human connection.
I wanna look you in the eye
Oh man it gets me every time
I wanna shine inside your world
I wanna be your favorite girl
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