Estella Dawn is a New Zealand-born, San Diego-based singer-songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist whose alt-country, indie-pop sound will charm and warm the hearts of any audience.
New single “Thanks For Asking” continues her sonic exploration of love and loss, hurting and healing, growing up and growing out of things seen in previous singles like “Hometown,” “Detached,” “You Didn’t Text Me,” and “Conversations.”
The song’s sardonic, confessional, and graphic lyricism captures the endlessly relatable paradox of wearing the same dress he took off of you on new dates, of refusing to believe the tarot cards you pulled, of defending his name to strangers when you can’t even stand up for yourself. Dawn’s strong voice and lively acoustic guitars recount a narrative of recovery that is not linear: “I thought time would have worn the edges / Tell me why I still check my mentions / Like you might rise up from the ashes.”
“Thanks For Asking” — the title, punchline, and thesis of the track — implies this secret, almost humiliating longing for a love lost to return, for someone who left to come back, while telling everyone you don’t want that at all. It sounds as if she is rehearsing for a conversation that she knows won’t happen, stuck in her own delusions and pretensions.
“Thanks For Asking” is out on all platforms now.
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