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Rising Singer Allison Ponthier Turns the Bitter Pill of Being Dropped by a Major Into a Sweet Indie Single, ‘Karaoke Queen’: ‘I Was Terrified, but This Song Comforted Me Through That’ (EXCLUSIVE)
Allison Ponthier, championed by Elton John and Brandi Carlile, talks about celebrating getting dropped be a major with her indie single 'Karaoke Queen.'
And so I was so terrified that the rug would be pulled out from under me, the only way that I really know how to process things is by writing about them.” She brought in two co-writers she felt comfortable sharing that anxiety with, Ethan Gruska (who’s written with Phoebe Bridgers and Lizzy McAlpine) and Micah Premnath. “I pitched the idea of a classic ‘70s-style story song about a girl who gets signed pretty young, gets dropped by her major label, has to move back to her hometown, and is embarrassed and has to process those emotions until she finally finds herself being the queen of the karaoke bar,” she explains. Ponthier previously explored that divide in one of her Interscope singles, “Cowboy,” which touched on the feelings of embracing being from somewhere else in a new urban landscape… even as, back home, she also sometimes felt “other,” having been a queer person in a conservative area.
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