Delacey

One Liner: Successful pop songwriter coming out from behind the curtain for one "Jolene"-ish track

Wikipedia Genre: No Wikipedia, but indie pop?
Home: Orange County, CA

Poster Position: 19

Weekend One Only.

Thoughts:  Huh.  Spotify has a few options.  "Delacy" has two songs that each have eighty-seven (approximately) remixes, but none of them have more than 10k streams.  "De'Lacy" has a track with more than 2 million streams.  Also available, Kim Delacy, Meg DeLacy, Ron Delacy, and "R.O.D. (Rainie of De'Lacy)."  So, let's check the ACL bio to see if that helps - aaaand none of these Spotify artists appear to be this same person who is coming to ACL.  So, no Spotify presence, and a name that maybe is problematic for its similarity to many others...

Or, I'm an idiot who cannot spell.  Definitely that.  There is a freaking "e" before that "y," there, Jack.  With that in mind, she has one song available on Spotify, which is actually kind of a cool track.  Got that torchy, classic feel, kind of like Dan Auerbach produced it for her - here is "My Man," with 1.5 million streams.

She's beautiful, and her voice is also great.  The tune itself is kind of a modern take on "Jolene," with it's "bitch, don't steal my man, he's got a weakness for girls like you, we both know you can, but I really need him more than you" chorus.  Although, is that guy supposed to be a hottie?  Like a scrawny Shawn White with bad tattoos.  She vamps a bit much for the camera, but I get that is the aesthetic she is going for here.

Everything I read about her points to the fact that she has already enjoyed a very successful songwriting career for other pop artists, prior to this one song.  She has co-writing credits or songs placed with folks like Chainsmokers, Demi Lovato, Halsey (and a bunch of people I've never heard of).  The Halsey song apparently his number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart (called "Without Me" - doesn't ring a bell even when I listened - 692 million freaking streams though).  In addition to that success, she had a song, called "Dream It Possible" that was selected by Chinese smartphone company Huawei (yes, that one in the news right now for getting cut off at the knees by the U.S. government) to sell phones.  Here's that commercial.

Pretty generic little piano tune, but the unlimited success of that young girl, who tells herself to PRACTICE HARDER, DREAM IT, NEVER QUIT, NEVER STOP, and Morning 7:00, and then jams the piano for her grandpa on his deathbed, with her Huawei phone there to help, is very touching.  Now I must have one of those spy phones that provides all of my personal information directly to the Supreme Leader!

Funny thing, almost all of the articles about her don't use her real name.  Every one of the articles/interviews just straight up calls her Delacey, until I finally found one that says her real name is Brittany Amaradio - her name has "radio" in it!  How does she not use that!  She was apparently writing original music at 7, was kicked out of high school twice, and ended up in New York City struggling to make it before heading back home to California.

No other songs to try out just yet, I like the first one, and bleh about the second one, so I probably won't go try this one out.