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Blondshell captures complexities of growing up on stirring new single ‘Fur Elise’

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Blondshell captures complexities of growing up on stirring new single ‘Fur Elise’

Blondshell has shared the stirring single ‘Fur Elise’ – taken from her upcoming album ‘Violins’.

Check it out below.

READ MORE: Blondshell is done giving us every part of her: “Things get lost if you say too much” The Los Angeles artist – real name Sabrina Teitelbaum – will release her third studio album and follow-up to last year’s ‘If You Asked For A Picture’ on September 25 via Partisan Records.

She has already shared the single ‘ Heart Has To Work So Hard’ and the towering title track , and now has dropped the eye-catching single ‘Fur Elise’ – the closing track from the LP.

Across the song, Blondshell blends her signature loud and quiet structures, and explores the complexities of growing up in the lyrics.

The title refers to the classical piano piece, with the song capturing the feeling of walking down the aisle and getting the feeling of being overwhelmed.

“You’re trying to figure out what you want your life to look like, and what you want playing at your wedding, but you don’t even know where to start.

You’re picking the wrong song,” she shared.

The themes in the song align with that of the album as a whole, which tackles troubled friendships, religion, the body, and the efforts to heal.

“This record’s heavy in a way,” Teitelbaum said.

“[The songwriting] has gotten a little bit less literal.

There’s more imagery.

But my main goal with this record was to have songs that hit hard.

I wanted big lead lines.” As for how the third album sees her more self-assured in her songwriting, she added: “I felt like I wasn’t walking in the dark anymore.

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