One Liner: Successful pop songwriter coming out from behind the curtain for a "Jolene"-ish track and then something terrible with G-Eazy
Wikipedia Genre: No Wikipedia genre, but indie pop?Home: Orange County, CA
Poster Position: 5 (25)
Weekend One Only.
Friday at 1:40
Thoughts: Back when she last came here in 2019, she was still so small time that it was hard to tell which artist on Spotify was the one we were talking about. "Delacy" had two songs that each have eighty-seven (approximately) remixes, but none of them have more than 10k streams. "De'Lacy" had a track with more than 2 million streams. Also available, Kim Delacy, Meg DeLacy, Ron Delacy, and "R.O.D. (Rainie of De'Lacy)." Finding the right person, she had 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 8.8 million streams.
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 doing her own stuff. 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 - 1.8 BILLION 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 a few years back for getting cut off at the knees by the U.S. government) to sell phones. Here's that commercial.
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.
I probably won't go try this one out.
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 doing her own stuff. 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 - 1.8 BILLION 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 a few years back 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.
Since then, she has released two albums - 2020's Black Coffee and 2023's The Girl Has a Dream. That new disc has not gotten off the ground yet - released at the end of June but no song has cracked a million and many are under 10k. The debut album has two big streamers though, with "The Subway Song" (26.2 million) and "Cruel Intentions" (35 million). "The Subway Song" is a nice little piano ballad with good lyrics. Here is the other one since it has more streams.
My goodness, G Eazy really sucks at the rapping. Just immediately rips the soul out of that song with his boring flow and terrible lyrics. That song sucks ass. You should go listen to the subway thing instead.
I probably won't go try this one out.
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