Alessia Cara is one of those pop stars you know you'll stick with for a long time as her single 'Here' which is gaining ground as an extremely relatable alt-pop hit has proven. There's even a remix which sounds almost as awesome as the original song by Mickey Valen (listen to both below).
Alessia Cara, born Alessia Caracciolo is an 18 year old (19 in two days) Italian-Canadian R&B and alt-pop singer who is a self-proclaimed 'anti-social pessimist'. She's shy and doesn't like parties, and I have never connected so well with a person I don't even know before. She was signed to Def Jam Recordings after a record exec's daughter heard her cover of The Neighbourhood's 'Sweater Weather' which is amazing, of course. Already, she's been compared to Lorde, another awesome teenage singer-songwriter, but Alessia is in a league of her own.
Her voice is silky-smooth and her lyrics feel like they were written for the listener. 'Here' is a song about being the shy one at parties- it is any wallflower's anthem, including myself. Alessia said in a TEDXTalk, she explains that 'Here' is essentially autobiographical as it talks about a party that she went to when she was younger that she hated so much, she had to call her mom to pick her up. Gen X teens are subject to a lot of generalisation in terms of our love of technology, our outspokenness, and our need to rebel. Parties are commonplace for anyone over the age of 14 these days, and at these parties, there's drinking, smoking, lots of inappropriate behaviour that desensitises us before we even reach our twenties. However, not all of us are party animals- we prefer to stay at home and find other things to occupy our time with and Alessia Cara is viral proof of that.
Along with her song, its remix and the video of her cover of Sweater Weather, BBC Radio 1 posted her performance of Taylor Swift's 'Bad Blood' for their Live Lounge and it is beautiful - Taylor Swift approves completely. Also, read this interview on RookieMag.com.
Sweater Weather cover
Official video for Here
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