Blondshell returns with a raw realness that only she can deliver. In her new single, “23’s A Baby,” she effectively voices a generation caught between teenage and adult life, and she does so with sincerity and grace.
Lifted from her forthcoming album, “If You Asked For A Picture,” due May 2nd via Partisan Records, “23’s A Baby” is a bold stylistic leap for the up-and-coming presence in alt-rock. There’s a lyrical sharpness to this, but its disarming honesty makes this song land. Blondshell is knee-deep in the same chaos and contradiction that characterize early adulthood in our era.
She drills into the odd emotional math of your twenties when you’re technically an adult but still searching how to do your taxes and grappling with existential dread and lowkey freaking out about the direction of your life. It’s all encoded in this song with the simplicity and bounce of a nursery rhyme, dealing with the heavy tangle of delayed adulthood, self-discovery, and the invisible force of timelines we were never supposed to follow.
Blondshell shared that the song is half about being in your twenties and feeling like you’re supposed to know everything. Your parents even had kids around that time, but you’re really in the weeds of figuring out who you are. That feeling is as accurate as a thing gets and flows through every word and note.
But melodically, “23’s A Baby” packs a light wallop. It’s catchy without trying too hard and emotionally weighty without weighing you down. Blondshell’s voice is as hypnotic as ever, tensioning between vulnerability and wit with an ease that feels well-earned. It’s the kind of song you want to put on repeat, not just because it sounds good, but because it makes you feel seen.
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