Lanie Gardner

One Liner:  Techno party at her top end, generic soft-pop country at the bottom

Wikipedia Genre:  No Wikipedia, but country

Home: Nashville

Saturday at 12:15 on the Showdeo Stage.

Thoughts:  That is an odd little juxtaposition.  Her top song on Spotify is a David Guetta EDM remake of Fleetwood Mac's "Dreams" with 71 million streams.  Which is entirely out of character for the rest of her catalog, which is starts off with a vaguely rockin' generic pop tune from the Twisters soundtrack.  That is her only song without David Guetta that breaks a million streams.  Before I start research, I'm calling it that she was on some sort of singing competition show.  That Twisters song is her top streamer with 1.9 million.

I know that there is banjo involved in that song, but I just don't hear country at all.  Straight soft-rock pop to my ears.  Generic and unmemorable.  

I was trying to get some work done and just let this play, but it sort of sucks so I need to dig in and write it up so that I can move on.  Way too poppy for what I want to hear.  Apparently, she covered "Dreams" and uploaded it, it went viral, and so she was invited to do the Guetta remix as well.  All of the bios that I read feel like they were poorly written by AI with too many superlatives.  "A true embodiment of passion and perseverance, Gardner is not just a singer; she’s an inspiration, breaking barriers and pushing boundaries in the music industry."  Blech.  I have literally read four things about her and know next to nothing about her background other than the fact that her grandfather wanted to go to Nashville and be famous.  She's with the Jonas Brothers' label too.  Great.

In one of her videos, she sort of looks like Pete Davidson because of the darker eye sockets.  That is likely not a nice thing to say.  Sorry.  One album - 2024's A Songwriter's Diary.  Top song is "Mountains and Miller" with 294k streams.

That one is less poppy than some of her other tunes, nice little slice of nostalgia folk.  Weird thing - YouTube has multiple clickbait farm videos with titles like "Shocking Update - What Happened to Lanie Gardner After American Idol!"  I tried watching one, and it super did not tell me that information.  Zero mention of American Idol in the video.  Just the same crap that she grew up with musical family and blew up after a cover of "Dreams."  Annoying.

I'm good without seeing this one.