“What does your voice actually sound like, though?” Man, there must be a lot of great voices that we don’t even know. I love Feist, but I feel like Feist ruined so many women! I feel like there’s so many women who are even like semi-successful, but still have these put-on voices. I think that was one of the best things I ever could have done. When I was starting to sing, I realized didn’t want to sound like somebody, I wanted to figure out what my voice sounded like, and to sing like that. I felt like she was singing in the way that her voice was set up to sing. When I was little, I felt like the girls’ voices that I heard all the time were trying to sound nice, or pretty, or something. She played electric and she had this really unique voice that I loved. The only Christian singer I ever thought was actually good is Jennifer Knapp. We were only allowed to listen to hymns, which are pretty amazing, musically it’s pretty fucking hard to play a hymn, by the way.
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I remember my older sister and I would sneak a radio into our bedroom. I came up from a very interesting childhood.
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Unsurprisingly, she speaks frequently and enthusiastically about other Nasvhille artists’ work: Capacity by Big Thief is “the most special thing I’ve heard in a very long time,” Brittany Howard’s Sound in Color is “so different and exciting and brave,” and Hurray for the Riff Raff’s Alynda Segarra is “magical and masterful and so on the level.”Īside from Radiohead, what music did you listen to growing up?
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More than two years in the making, the album rollout actually began at the end of 2016 with her sunstruck, bluegrassy first single, “Summertime Mama.” The video for that reverberating track, which came out this past August, shows her fly-fishing with her girlfriend, her dog, and her Bermuda Triangle bandmate and Alabama Shakes lead singer Brittany Howard, and spotlights Becca’s penchant for light and joy and the company of others. She’s truly stoked about its reception, which she should be - it’s been a very long time coming. or New York City versus the South, and the unexpected response to her gorgeous debut album, Good Woman, which Becca self-released last October. Madonnas 'Hung Up' is an important moment in gay millennial history. We talk for a while about imagery and artist packaging, being a gay woman in L.A. 7 Music Videos From The 2000s I Loved As A Millennial Kid And, In Retrospect, Made Me Realize Im Pretty Darn Queer.