Grace Ives' "Girlfriend": A Review of Pop Standards Born from Personal Chaos
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Hattie Lindert
Summary
Grace Ives' album "Girlfriend" review explores how the singer-songwriter transforms everyday archetypes (nursery rhymes, ringtones, the 9-to-5) into oblique pop standards that mask personal turmoil. The article details Ives' three-year period of self-destructive behavior following her 2022 breakthrough "Janky Star," including heavy drinking and pushing people away, before she quit alcohol, moved to Los Angeles, learned to drive, and channeled those experiences into her music.
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· 3 pulledGrace Ives has spent the past several years turning archetypal formats—the nursery rhyme, the ringtone, the 9 to 5—into a repertoire of oblique pop standards so well-crafted they belie the personal chaos inside them.
She trades in stories of glamorous disarray, all bruised egos and Irish exits and rambling thoughts.
By Ives' own estimation, she spent the three years after the release of her 2022 breakthrough, Janky Star, crashing out: drinking too much, pushing people away, falling down, etc.
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