Roosevelt High junior one of 12 winners of the National Musical Theater Songwriting Challenge Sierra A. Porter, Des Moines Register © Ada Fender/Special to the Register Ada Fender: WINDSOR HEIGHTS, IOWA - JUNIOR, ROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOL
Lot of teens dream of making their own, original music with top artists.
Ada Fender, 17, has actually done it.
The Windsor Heights resident said she learned about the contest from her mother, Jenny Fender. I like to write songs a lot, and it sounded like a really good opportunity if I was able to become a finalist, Ada said.
She entered a rough draft of her song in February 2020 and learned she was a finalist in September 2020. Called, Great Grim Green, her musical theatrical number is set in a fantasy world called Morania, where the character Liz, an orphaned, 27-year-old peasant, sings of deciding to visit a witch, known as the Great Grim Green Guinevene, who she asks to turn her into a new person.
Roosevelt High School s Ada Fender wins national songwriting challenge
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With Remember Me as Holy, Lily Talmers gets personal without oversharing. // Photograph courtesy of courtesy of Lily Talmers
When Lily Talmers sings, “Is there anybody listening to me? / From the middle of America you scream out to the ocean, it gets lost,” it’s not just a plea by a 23-year-old Ann Arbor singer-songwriter-multi-instrumentalist who wants to be heard. “Middle of America“ also addresses a potential lie to “people at the border,“ a father’s decimated pension fund, and a lost Lady Liberty.
The song is neither didactic nor overly sentimental, though it is pointed and nostalgic. It’s both specific in its details and nebulous in its meaning, a feeling that runs throughout Talmers’ excellent debut album,
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Orla Gartland has shared powerful new work Zombie! - tune in now.
Across a flurry of single releases and EPs the Dublin artist has sketched out a unique palette, worth comparing to Regina Spektor or even Stevie Nicks.
Fluid alt-pop with a dose of honesty, her stark new single Zombie! deals directly with male emotional repression.
Produced by Pete Robertson (beabadoobee) and co-produced by Orla herself, it s a portrait of feelings being scarcely kept in check, until they boil over.
She comments. Zombie! is about repressing emotions until one day they burst out of you all at once. Specifically it s about a very common, very male kind of repression I witnessed in a boy I loved once - I could see that he felt things but there was a barrier stopping him from expressing them. I hated that for him, it made me so angry at the societal pressures that led him to that place.
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