ZELLA DAY RELEASES NEW SONG RADIO SILENCE
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ZELLA DAY RELEASES NEW SONG RADIO SILENCE
Toronto, ON – June 24, 2022 – Today, Los Angeles-based, Zella Day, releases her first new song of 2022. Entitled Radio Silence, the track - which was written in fall of 2021 - details the experience of a young woman forced to reckon with the choices surrounding an unintended pregnancy. Combining sonic elements of college radio-era R.E.M. with haunting synths and drums, as well as some of the most pointed, evocative lyrics Day has ever written, Radio Silence is raw, candid, and universally resonant. Listen to Radio Silence here.
Radio Silence was written by Day and Alex Casnoff (Jonathan Wilson, Harriet), and features backing vocals from fellow LA musician, Miya Folick. Lyrics for the song - prescient in their ability to match our current political reality months after they were penned - are below.
Says Day about the song, “I had life-threatening complications with a pregnancy three years ago, and I can’t even imagine what it would have been like had I not been given the freedom to make my own choices for myself and my body at that time. As Simone de Beauvoir wrote, ‘The body is not a thing, it’s a situation.’ It’s as if the world has turned its back on us at our most vulnerable, when we are faced with a decision that will change our lives forever.”
Radio Silence is a bold sonic step forward for Day, and a fitting welcome to the next chapter of her musical journey. In 2021, Day released a handful of tracks that racked up millions and millions of streams, including Golden, Dance For Love, Girls, a duet with Weyes Blood called Holocene, and a remix of Golden by Twin Shadow. Day also appeared on Lana Del Rey’s Chemtrails Over the Country Club last year, covering Joni Mitchell with Del Rey and Weyes Blood in a symbolic passing of the sonic torch from one great LA singer/songwriter to the new generation.
Lyrics for Radio Silence
Born in the valley ’85
You took me to the guest house
Where your friends would all skip class and get high
Rolling up the windows
Now you're pouring me wine in your jacuzzi
You want your sex more like the movies
So I bought a book on Kamasutra
To get you screaming hallelujah
Hold my body
Can you feel it
I’ve been trying to keep this secret down
I’m trying to shake the spirit out
Radio Radio Radio Radio into Silence
You sent me a picture of your doorstep
Of your key and where to find it
Back of your closet
In your best pants
The cash inside your wallet
You have anxiety over pregnancy
So you bought this fucking pill for me
Now it’s Friday night and you’re out
My head is inside the toilet
I love how you told me to calm down
And I’m screaming hallelujah
Hold my body
Can you feel it
I’ve been trying to keep this secret down
I’m trying to shake the spirit out
Radio Radio Radio Radio into Silence
How could this happen to me
I happen to be holding on
How could this happen to me
I happen to be strong
What I couldn’t see
It was happening to me all along
Hold my body
Can you feel it
I’ve been trying to keep this secret down
I’m trying to shake the spirit out
Radio Radio Radio Radio into Silence
Radio Silence was written by Day and Alex Casnoff (Jonathan Wilson, Harriet), and features backing vocals from fellow LA musician, Miya Folick. Lyrics for the song - prescient in their ability to match our current political reality months after they were penned - are below.
Says Day about the song, “I had life-threatening complications with a pregnancy three years ago, and I can’t even imagine what it would have been like had I not been given the freedom to make my own choices for myself and my body at that time. As Simone de Beauvoir wrote, ‘The body is not a thing, it’s a situation.’ It’s as if the world has turned its back on us at our most vulnerable, when we are faced with a decision that will change our lives forever.”
Radio Silence is a bold sonic step forward for Day, and a fitting welcome to the next chapter of her musical journey. In 2021, Day released a handful of tracks that racked up millions and millions of streams, including Golden, Dance For Love, Girls, a duet with Weyes Blood called Holocene, and a remix of Golden by Twin Shadow. Day also appeared on Lana Del Rey’s Chemtrails Over the Country Club last year, covering Joni Mitchell with Del Rey and Weyes Blood in a symbolic passing of the sonic torch from one great LA singer/songwriter to the new generation.
Lyrics for Radio Silence
Born in the valley ’85
You took me to the guest house
Where your friends would all skip class and get high
Rolling up the windows
Now you're pouring me wine in your jacuzzi
You want your sex more like the movies
So I bought a book on Kamasutra
To get you screaming hallelujah
Hold my body
Can you feel it
I’ve been trying to keep this secret down
I’m trying to shake the spirit out
Radio Radio Radio Radio into Silence
You sent me a picture of your doorstep
Of your key and where to find it
Back of your closet
In your best pants
The cash inside your wallet
You have anxiety over pregnancy
So you bought this fucking pill for me
Now it’s Friday night and you’re out
My head is inside the toilet
I love how you told me to calm down
And I’m screaming hallelujah
Hold my body
Can you feel it
I’ve been trying to keep this secret down
I’m trying to shake the spirit out
Radio Radio Radio Radio into Silence
How could this happen to me
I happen to be holding on
How could this happen to me
I happen to be strong
What I couldn’t see
It was happening to me all along
Hold my body
Can you feel it
I’ve been trying to keep this secret down
I’m trying to shake the spirit out
Radio Radio Radio Radio into Silence