![]() The song titles from her upcoming album maybe i will see you at the end of the world signal a rather anguished existence of crushes and their aftermath. It’s definitely easier to write when I’m sad or when there’s a pressing issue at hand, but if I sit in a room alone for long enough, I’ll come up with something to write about.” “I daydream a lot and that’s where a lot of my songs start. Thankfully for Sprague, songwriting comes rather easily and fluidly. “I’m an only child, and I grew up spending a lot of time getting lost in my thoughts and in music, so I write mostly when I’m alone and reflecting,” she acknowledges, clearly in touch with her inner voices. ![]() “I’m descending into hell / It’s the way you fuck my head up / I think that you’re something else / Maybe something I’m afraid of,” she sings. It’s a confessional kind of songwriting. Physically it really helped me get all of those feelings out of my system.”Ĭathartic and a little bit dramatic, the lyrics fight the eternally agonizing battle between “I should know better” and “Oh God, why doesn’t he notice me?” When I first wrote it and played it live acoustically, I would do this super-aggressive, descending, banging thing on my guitar. I wanted to capture that adrenaline in an audible way. In reference to the subject matter, Sprague continues, “That chaos in my brain/heart is where I got the idea to write a song that ‘felt’ like physically falling down the stairs. It’s music that angsty teenage girls can rock out to and that their boyfriends will be okay with playing loud. It’s heady but it’s also fluffy like an 2020 update of Michelle Branch. I was losing my mind over it because I had no idea if he felt the same way, and since he was on tour so much, there was a lot of space for my mind to run away with all the possibilities.”Ī lilting emo ballad that incorporates bits of ‘90s Lillith Fair (courtesy of Abra Moore and perhaps Paula Cole) with pop constructs by way of Avril Lavigne and Kelly Clarkson, it’s an interesting beast that keeps a midtempo metronomic beat in the midst of the fuzzy cushions of reverb-heavy guitars and airy, feather-weight vocals. “He was a bassplayer in a touring band, and there were a million red flags but I couldn’t stop myself from falling. “I wrote ’staircase failure’ back in 2018 when I had a terrible crush on someone who was way out of my league,” she confesses, now two years older and probably a decade wiser. The object of her unreturned attention? A musician. But these particular words belong to Sydney Sprague, a singer/songwriter who lives in Phoenix, AZ about her new single “staircase failure.” “A lot of my songs are about unrequited love or love gone wrong, so I’d say that’s probably when I write my best.” These words spoken could have easily been said by a myriad of songwriters who were inspired to write about that oft-used trope of fruitless heartbreak like in Wuthering Heights or more recently Chbosky’s The Perks of Being a Wallflower.
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