photo by Aron Meinhardt
Listening to the rustic, acoustic beauty of 'Handsome Woman' by Los Angeles singer-songwriter Lauren Scott-Phillips I am struck by the sheer stripped down beauty of it all. Lauren embodies the track with a seemingly natural ability to structure melodies that make you hear things that aren't there. Yeah, really. I have listened to this song dozen's of times and when the chorus sweeps in I hear added layers of orchestrations wrap around Lauren's voice. Lauren's down to earth elegant folk vocal aesthetic, like a cross generational amalgam of artists like Judy Collins and Gillian Welch, slips easily around you no matter what kind of music you are into.
Lauren wrote 'Handsome Woman' as a loving ode to her wife 'subtly challenging the traditional language used to describe femininity' and she shares:
“My wife is very feminine, and I’m pretty feminine too, but I have some masculine traits, and I really just didn’t know how I wanted to be described. I just want to normalize the idea that whoever you want to be, that’s who you should be."
The Official Video for 'Handsome Woman' that looks incredibly filmic is amazing, tender, moving and as press notes indicate:
[Directed by Aron Meinhardt, the video features footage of private moments between Scott-Phillips and her wife—at eight months pregnant—capturing the love and companionship of a new family that inspired Scott-Phillips to write the track. “I wanted the video to be really authentically LGBTQ-focused, because that’s just who I am,” says Scott-Phillips. “If you’re an artist and you’re writing about your life, I think it's important to really broadcast who you are.”]
-Robb Donker Curtius
https://open.spotify.com/artist/55wAQsrsbE7vsyU1ZJbWKA
https://www.youtube.com/user/LaurenPhillipsMusic
https://www.instagram.com/laurenscottphillips/
Los Angeles singer-songwriter Lauren Scott-Phillips has been featured at American Songwriter, Americana UK, Rolling Stone India, and has worked with Grammy nominated producer Brian West (Nelly Furtado, Any Grammer, Maroon 5). As a lesbian, woman, wife, and new mother, her latest single, "Handsome Woman," an ode to her wife, subtly challenges the traditional language used to describe femininity.
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THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:
https://open.spotify.com/artist/55wAQsrsbE7vsyU1ZJbWKA
https://www.youtube.com/user/LaurenPhillipsMusic
https://www.instagram.com/laurenscottphillips/
Los Angeles singer-songwriter Lauren Scott-Phillips has been featured at American Songwriter, Americana UK, Rolling Stone India, and has worked with Grammy nominated producer Brian West (Nelly Furtado, Any Grammer, Maroon 5). As a lesbian, woman, wife, and new mother, her latest single, "Handsome Woman," an ode to her wife, subtly challenges the traditional language used to describe femininity.
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