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Yes,
she's a teenager. True, she's a singer-songwriter with anthems
of rebellion to spare. Still, never, ever compare Katy Rose to
fellow female singer songwriters. "I want to be my own person.
I hope people take what I do as my own, and don't label me."
Like a matador's red flag, the evocative music and production
draws the listener to Rose's lyrics, from which there's no
turning back. Lines like "When you say you'll always be there,
it paints such a lovely picture/But no matter how you frame it
it's still pornography," "I see this girl with so much
anger/Pacified by holding strangers/Making peace with all her
danger by looking in the mirror" (from "Glow"), "I want you to
understand how I could be confused right after being used" (from
"I Like"), and "I need to take a shower when I look at you/You
sting and hurt like a bad tattoo" reverberate in both their
clever wordplay and biting universal truths. But Rose also has
a sense of humor, like on "Vacation's” playful evisceration of
her Catholic school experience ("I've lost all sense of
navigation, but got my Californication/ If I miss my
graduation/I'll have one fucking long vacation"). "My themes are
disassociation, hard times, searching, idealism, and
heartbreak," Rose says. "But there's a lot of hope in
there-that's what keeps me going. The first line of 'I Like' us
'I wanna live before I die'-that's my philosophy. Life is a
rollercoaster, and I'm not stopping. But where I used to feel
like a twig, waving in the wind, now I feel more like a strong
tree."
Visit the website for audio
tracks and more info at:
http://www.katyrose.net/
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