NewYearsDayProject | a song a day blog

There are not many songs that get the promotional treatment that Harry Styles ' " Adore You " received when Columbia Records released the second single from Fine Line   in 2019. Before the single was released, a Twitter page title "@visitedora" appeared.  Then a website for the fictional tourist island appeared, though it wasn't advertised as a fictional location. There was no place to book a ticket and Google Maps wasn't able to find the location.  WOULD YOU BELIEVE IT? Harry Styles released a trailer for "Adore You" on December 2, 2019 and then dropped the single and music video on December 6. In the music video, Styles treats viewers to a storytelling video about a boy (played by Styles) who is rejected by the residents of the small island, Edora. The boy befriends a magical fish, saving the fish from a fish market. Along the way, the "Adore You" music video introduces viewers to a number of colorful characters who live on the g

Last month, The Japanese House released their long-anticipated follow-up album to 2019's Good at Falling . The solo project of Amber Mary Bain , The Japanese House collaborated with a number of musicians from Bon Iver 's Justin Vernon and The 1975 's Maty Healy and George Daniel to MUNA and Charli XCX on their latest project, In the End, It Always Does . The English singer-songwriter Amber Bain offers a hybrid between the acoustic and highly processed, like if Bon Iver recorded and produced Joni Mitchell . It's simple. It's zen. It's nice music for a rainy or slow humid summer day. I'M STILL LOOKING OUT FOR ME. Before releasing In the End, It Always Does, The Japanese House released the lead single, " Boyhood ." The instrumental direction of In the End, It Always Does feels less processed than The Japanese House's earlier work. Singer Amber Bain had talked about using The Japanese House to mask the person behind the music. I've writte

In 1996, Welsh singer-songwriter  Donna Lewis  released her debut single " I Love You Always Forever ." The understated, delicate pop song became an international hit. In the United States, it hit number 2 on the  Billboard Hot 100 , unable to take the top spot because of multiple versions that counted as Los Del Rio 's version of  " Macarena ," the dance track that plagued '96. Lewis never matched the success of her debut single. SECRET MOMENTS SHUT IN THE HEAT OF THE AFTERNOON. Donna Lewis wrote the song "I Love You Always Forever" basing it on a 1953 novel, Love for Lydia by Herbert Ernest Bates. The lines from the chorus "I love you always forever, near and far closer together" appear in the novel, and Lewis' original title for the song was "Lydia." While Lewis had a few other minor hits, such as "At the Beginning," a duet with Richard Marx on the 1997 song for the Anastasia original soundtrack, "I Love

Almost a year after releasing her second album Beatopia , beabadoobee released a new single called “ Glue Song .” The song became a hit on TikTok and a month later a remixed version was released with Clairo . Bea had toured with Clairo on her Immunity Tour in 2019. The two artists are two years apart in age—Claire Elizabeth Cottrill (Clairo) being the older—and occupy a similar genre of lo-fi bedroom pop. “Glue Song” reminds me doing crafts in grade school—that kid that played with the paste, getting glue stuck in long hair, that sugary taste of non-toxic horse product. But I digress. Today, I’m bringing yesterday’s Fresh playlist to AppleMusic, with a few modifications. Check it out in the link below! Read “Glue Song” by ​beabadoobee on Genius

Quotes from Movies has only about 5,000 monthly listeners on Spotify, but their inclusion on playlists like Fresh Finds and Soda have the song “ Super Mall Mannequin ” seeing a lot of success earlier this year. Since there’s not a lot of information from the band other than their Instagram account and the music they posted on streaming services, I decided to make a playlist of some of the songs that I’ve been listening to lately that I haven’t written about yet. Is there any Fresh Finds I should be listening to? I’ll add to this playlist from time to time. Enjoy! Listen to the Playlist on Spotify.  

  The list of albums turning 20 this year makes me feel really, really old. Earlier this week, I covered the youth group classic The Beautiful Letdown . Anberlin released their debut record Blueprints for the Black Market , which also made a huge impact on my teenage life. But then some albums came out that year that I didn’t listen to until later. I had known Copeland from their first low-budget video “ Walking Downtown ,” but it wasn’t until their third record, Eat, Sleep, Repeat , that I started listening to the band. In the spring of ‘06 when I was about to graduate from high school I started buying Copeland’s CDs, picking them up on discount if I could from Best Buy. The first two records were perfect for late spring/summer listening.  I AM STARVED FOR HER ATTENTION . Copeland’s Beneath Medicine Tree has the most delicate lyrics of all Copeland records. The loose concept of the album deals with the death of lead singer Aaron Marsh ’s grandmother and the hospitalization of his g

Last month, Niall Horan released his third record, The Show . The album topped sales and streaming charts in eight countries. In America, though, the record peaked at number 2 on Billboard’s 200 Albums chart. That’s still an impressive feat for a record without a major hit. That’s not to say that The Show lacks the catchiness required for a hit. The lead single “ Heaven ” peaked at  # 62 and no other track has charted yet. It’s still possible that “ Meltdown ” or “ Science ” may catch on, but in today’s TikTok-driven music industry, Horan’s success is not a guarantee. I WILL FOLLOW YOU TILL THERE’S NO TOMORROW. The production on The Show is exceptional and Horan’s vocals and the harmonies on many of the songs are good. The critics on the podcast Every Album Ever point out that Niall Horan’s writing process for his music is more like the writing process of One Direction songwriting sessions than his fellow band mates whereas the other members tried to distance themselves from the b