
Released on January 1, 2021 — the symbolic turn from a historically difficult pandemic year — 'NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION' carries double cultural weight: it is both a personal confessional pop song about cyclical self-sabotage in relationships and an artifact of the COVID-19 era, when artists were releasing independently without tour support or major label infrastructure. Kincade, a former actress who transitioned to…
Occupies the confessional indie-pop lane pioneered by Taylor Swift and further mood-stylized by Lana Del Rey — a lineage Kincade herself has acknowledged. The track demonstrates the early-2020s trend of young independent female artists releasing emotionally candid, hook-forward pop with…
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