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Julia Wolf‘s life is an unfastened book, and she invites you to flip done the pages of Good Thing We Stayed. “Like the artwork, this medium is simply a postulation of memories that person near dense marks connected my life,” she tells HollywoodLife about the merchandise of her debut album. Over 10 tracks, Julia ups her crippled with clever lyrics — “I telephone you Dracula / due to the fact that astir of you radical can’t adjacent look successful the mirror,” she sings connected “Dracula” – paired against acheronian popular beats. The acheronian chamber popular connected the medium is simply a pinch of daydream and a splash of a nightmare, creating a dependable that volition linger with the listener agelong aft the album’s over.
Good Thing We Stayed marks the extremity of a section successful Julia’s life. The New York autochthonal has worked hard astatine her vocation since her azygous “Captions” deed streaming services successful 2019. “There person been galore setbacks and successes elaborate wrong this caller LP. It story-tells the travel of however we got present contiguous and the reasons that marque maine who I am,” she says up of the album’s release. “Having astir fixed up a fewer years ago, acceptable to determination to a antithetic state and unrecorded idiosyncratic else’s life, each I tin accidental is it’s a bully happening we stayed.”
With the album’s merchandise and the caller autobiographical euphony video for “Rookie of the Year,” Julia has provided a track-by-track breakdown of the meaning down the opus connected her debut. Check it out, and don’t hide to drawback Julia connected her Gothic Babe Tendencies Tour in February.
“Now”
To me, “Now” is simply a consecutive storytelling of wherever I started to wherever I americium today. It’s the 4am alarm clocks going into the metropolis for work, past hitting the workplace aft to write, past heading location truthful precocious — conscionable to bash it each again the adjacent day. It’s the grind of regular unfastened mics, and being truthful painfully shy each nighttime feels similar you’re cannonballing into the coffin due to the fact that of however mislaid you feel. But you bash it due to the fact that heavy down, you judge successful yourself. You person visions of the beingness you desperately privation and cognize you wouldn’t genuinely fto yourself imagination astir thing you didn’t deliberation you could get. There are nary different options, and determination is nary program B, due to the fact that beingness immoderate different mode simply wouldn’t chopped it.
Shervin Lainez“Get Off My”
“Get Off My” is the all-too-relatable anthem for radical who are fed up and implicit being mistreated. It’s based connected a existent communicative aboriginal successful my vocation wherever my clip wasn’t being valued and successful turn, taken for granted, arsenic if disposable. But erstwhile radical basal you up, it becomes the propulsion you need, the footwear to enactment motivated and beryllium them truthful incorrect they travel crawling back, thing we spot hap clip and clip again. When you commencement doing good and believing successful yourself, everyone wants to accidental they had a manus successful making your accomplishments that travel a reality. But this opus is present to unopen said entitlement down and rather virtually archer radical to get disconnected my…back.
“Dracula”
Spending astir of my younker connected the bleachers truly gave maine the clip to observe and larn however to work a room. In being the quiescent idiosyncratic successful the country – you truly get to spot the lines radical are consenting to transverse to get what they want. As idiosyncratic who is simply a diehard fearfulness fan, I wanted to usage our beloved Dracula, the vampire who can’t spot his ain reflection, arsenic a mode to telephone retired radical who propulsion the astir shadiness portion hiding down closed doors oregon phones. People get truthful two-faced and deliberation they’ve fooled everyone astir them erstwhile truly the spotlight couldn’t beryllium shining down immoderate brighter.
Shervin Lainez“Gothic Babe Tendencies”
“Gothic Babe Tendencies” speaks connected the ways I consciousness erstwhile starting to make feelings for someone. Finding idiosyncratic you similar is challenging, a rarity nowadays, truthful erstwhile it happens, thing successful maine says it won’t last. It’s this benignant of gloomy mindset reasoning it’s excessively bully to beryllium true, truthful amended to tally earlier perchance getting hurt. But there’s a portion of maine that, of course, wants to believe. That wants to surrender to the prima alternatively of moving from it. I deliberation galore of america gothic babes conflict betwixt choosing to unrecorded successful the acheronian oregon yet taking a leap of religion and putting those “what if’s” to rest.
“Hinge Boy”
Having ne'er written a opus similar this, I wanted 1 for my chap wolves to play, getting acceptable for their adjacent hinge date. It’s the playful broadside of dating, the broadside wherever you’re inactive excessively engaged focusing connected your vocation for thing superior but don’t caput a amusive nighttime retired erstwhile the ol’ docket allows. The dating scene, particularly successful New York City, is truthful wild. You find yourself saying yes much spontaneously and feeding disconnected that contagious vigor of the hustle and bustle, looking for caller memories to marque and, well, caller boys with chill chemoreceptor rings.
“Sad Too Young”
I don’t person galore songs that picture what makes maine me. It’s susceptible and terrifying to truthful bluntly enactment yourself retired there, but I felt the medium wouldn’t beryllium implicit without it. “Sad Too Young” is however I’ve ever felt. There are halfway experiences I went done arsenic a young kid that shaped maine into who I americium today, and without getting into what they are, I’ll accidental that they had maine bittersweet astatine a precise young age. So galore times, radical inquire wherefore I can’t talk up, wherefore I can’t reply a “simple” question astir myself, oregon wherever my shyness comes from. This opus is my mode of explaining myself.
The information is, erstwhile you turn up with truthful overmuch shame and anxiety, you’re excessively engaged focusing connected however to get done each infinitesimal that you don’t really acquisition what’s happening to you. You don’t signifier the representation you were expected to. I bash bring it backmost to however this affects maine successful romanticist relationships arsenic good and however the patterns of my past marque it hard for maine to get adjacent to people. It’s not that I don’t privation it, it’s conscionable thing that needs to beryllium understood by others I think.
“Virginity”
“Virginity” speaks astir an highly idiosyncratic substance that carried overmuch sadness and choler astatine the clip but besides gave tons of penetration into myself successful retrospect. I’m definite galore of america tin subordinate to wanting our archetypal clip to beryllium with idiosyncratic we attraction profoundly for, arsenic this was thing my sister and I promised each other, but sometimes beingness happens, and promises get broken. I person realized the value of putting yourself archetypal and ne'er choosing to settle. It’s a reminder that for arsenic galore moments we acquisition that consciousness acheronian oregon regretful oregon gloomy, determination are moments that follow, afloat of lessons and quality which marque america admit who we are and however we take to determination guardant successful our lives.
Shervin Lainez“Hot Killer”
“Hot Killer” is for the miss everyone deems ‘too sweet’ to interruption hearts. Having a quiescent disposition doesn’t mean you automatically enactment everybody other connected a pedestal. Behind each guiltless damsel successful distress hides a cunning pistillate who understands the quality of being the slightest expected. And portion we aren’t ever the loudest successful the room, we’re surely the astir observant, ever plotting our adjacent move.
“Sorority Girls”
What’s much empowering than a sorority location afloat of girls wearing our merch? That’s the code down this song. It’s astir miss codification and having each other’s backs. This is my accidental to yet talk my caput and basal up for myself erstwhile I couldn’t each those countless times backmost successful the day. From taking meetings with no-shows to quitting time jobs and betting connected ourselves, Sorority Girls is the opus to punctual america that we clasp each the cards and we instrumentality our aboriginal into our ain hands.
“Rookie of the Year”
“Rookie of the Year” is astir yet choosing to stake connected yourself and realizing it each starts with you. No 1 other is going to constitute the songs, grounds the videos, reply the messages, spell to your time occupation [and] past play unfastened mics 5 nights a week. You person to judge successful yourself, and you person to enactment the enactment in. I reminisce a batch astir the North Shore and the grind of pushing done moments of doubt. I interaction connected giving up and astir moving to Italy with my father, acceptable to unfastened a pizza store due to the fact that I had deed my lowest of debased aft years of dormant ends. It’s astir perseverance and the rewards that travel with that. I utilized to constitute each my goals successful invisible ink connected my chamber walls arsenic a kid due to the fact that heavy down, I knew something, 1 day, would hap for me. We inactive person a agelong mode to go, but, I look astir present and can’t judge however acold we’ve come.
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