Jensen McRae announces debut album 'Are You Happy Now?,' releases new single "Happy Girl"
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Los Angeles singer-songwriter Jensen McRae has announced their debut album Are You Happy Now? today.
The debut album will be unveiled on March 22nd via Human Re-Sources. The first single from the record titled “Happy Girl” can be heard below. McRae said this about the new single:
“Happy Girl” began, quite fittingly, as a mistake—I was trying to play one chord progression but wound up playing the opening notes of what it eventually became. I was in Rahki’s studio, halfway through my last year of college, reflecting on all the girls I’d been to get me to that point. I thought about how I’d done everything I was supposed to do, had sanded off the edges of myself that had always pushed people away from me, and I still wasn’t happy. And I thought about how articulating the pain and loneliness of being chronically apart from others is often more trouble than it’s worth. So I wrote this song about the language gap between feeling pain and explaining it, and, as on “Dead Girl Walking,” how it is both easier and harder to manufacture a happy exterior than to invite people into your darkness.”
Pre-orders for Are You Happy Now? can be made here. “Happy Girl” is available on digital services right now.
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