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Nashville artist Dana Rogers goes by the stage title “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 excellent 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 tune that has a Sabrina Carpenter-style Massive Refrain.
We spoke with daena in regards to the new album and her plans to market it:
“Fortunate Quantity” is SO lovely and appears like successful to my ears. What’s the backstory on this nice tune?
Thanks a lot! This one is certainly one of the 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 tune we had been about to hit our 7-year relationship anniversary. Virtually in a single day, I felt a shift and realized that not solely did I need to spend the remainder of my life along with her, however I used to be really prepared to get engaged and begin the subsequent chapter of our life collectively.
I wished to jot down about how one of the best love doesn’t should be grandiose or over-the-top to be lovely. And that protected, snug love can maintain getting higher and higher yr after yr. I got here to my co-writer Kate Yeager with the thought, and after speaking each about my future in-laws’ love of playing (LOL) and the smooth and candy approach we love our respective companions day-to-day, we discovered our approach to “Fortunate Quantity”.
“Bri” can be a really particular tune. What led to you writing that one?
This was a troublesome one to jot down. I wrote it as an apology to my childhood greatest pal, Bri, at a time once I felt like I hadn’t been nearly as good a pal as I ought to have been to her. I feel it’s onerous for anybody to confess one thing like that, and it really took me just a few years to jot down. There’s an early model of the tune from round 2018 that I then dropped at my co-writer Kären McCormick in 2022, and he or she helped me form it into what you hear on the report. And sure – Bri and I are STILL greatest pals! I’ve by no means as soon as frightened that we wouldn’t be. I feel it’s only a testomony to how sturdy 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 driving the excessive and should say I’m type of itching to plan some extra now… so maintain your eyes peeled on my social media for any new dates being introduced.
