Touring the U.S. a year after the release of her debut album “Butterfly Blue,” Mallrat (born Grace Kathleen Elizabeth Shaw) arrived with all the delicate dreaminess of her recognizably catchy pop songs.
For Supalonely Star Benee, Pop Music Is Therapy
Kiwi singer-songwriter confronts fears and makes them danceable
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“Happen to Me,” the first song on Benee’s debut album,
Hey u x, kicks off with a line about her fear of dying in a freak accident. It’s a song about anxiety and dread, inspired by her reoccurring thoughts of airplanes crashing, raging fires, getting kidnapped, and just being alone. But the 21-year-old singer-songwriter born Stella Rose Bennett says it was a snap to write: “The sadder songs are normally a lot easier. They just have such intense emotions. It feels great venting it all out.”