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Nashville artist Dana Rogers goes by the stage identify “daena” – and her debut album Alter Ego feels destined to make loads of “Better of 2024” lists.
The brand new album is a showcase not only for daena’s very good songwriting however for her extremely versatile voice as properly. It’s onerous to convey tenderness, however daena is a grasp at it. Songs like “Fortunate Quantity” and “Bri” are intimate and touching.
But the album has loads of uptempo delights, too – just like the album’s title track that has a Sabrina Carpenter-style Massive Refrain.
We spoke with daena in regards to the new album and her plans to advertise:
“Fortunate Quantity” is SO lovely and feels like a success to my ears. What’s the backstory on this nice track?
Thanks a lot! This one is certainly one of the crucial particular on the album to me. My fiancée and I are getting married in April, and by the point we do, we’ll have been collectively for 10 years. However, once I wrote this track we have been about to hit our 7-year courting anniversary. Nearly in a single day, I felt a shift and realized that not solely did I wish to spend the remainder of my life together with her, however I used to be really prepared to get engaged and begin the following chapter of our life collectively.
I needed to jot down about how the perfect love doesn’t must be grandiose or over-the-top to be lovely. And that secure, snug love can maintain getting higher and higher yr after yr. I got here to my co-writer Kate Yeager with the concept, and after speaking each about my future in-laws’ love of playing (LOL) and the comfortable and candy means we love our respective companions day-to-day, we discovered our method to “Fortunate Quantity”.
“Bri” can also be a really particular track. What led to you writing that one?
This was a troublesome one to jot down. I wrote it as an apology to my childhood finest pal, Bri, at a time once I felt like I hadn’t been pretty much as good a pal as I ought to have been to her. I believe it’s onerous for anybody to confess one thing like that, and it really took me a number of years to jot down. There’s an early model of the track from round 2018 that I then dropped at my co-writer Kären McCormick in 2022, and she or he helped me form it into what you hear on the document. And sure – Bri and I are STILL finest mates! I’ve by no means as soon as fearful that we wouldn’t be. I believe it’s only a testomony to how robust our friendship and belief with one another is, and I’m so fortunate that she gave me her blessing to launch this one.
Will you be doing any reveals this fall to advertise the brand new album?
I simply had my album launch present final Friday at The Lipstick Lounge in Nashville, which was an absolute blast! I’m nonetheless using the excessive and must say I’m sort of itching to plan some extra now… so maintain your eyes peeled on my social media for any new dates being introduced.
