# Rising Folk-Pop Songstress ALICIA BLUE Declares ‘I Want It Faster’ in Punchy New Anthem; Self-Directed iPhone Video Clip Out Now

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- Published: 2022-12-12T14:30:00-06:00
- Author: Eugene Tierney

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“….[_Inner Child Work_] sparkles and shines, with enough darkness to provide satisfying
contrast, making it shine even brighter throughout. She is a top-notch song writer
and has always been. But her new work looks to make a bigger splash where her folkier
music would probably only have a niche audience. Intelligent, catchy, prescient.
It’s an impressive batch of songs from an evolving artist. The best of folk, the
best of pop.” – **Northern Transmissions**

“With ‘DTMTS (Don’t Tell Me To Smile)’ Blue diverts from her folk roots, instead
crafting her take on shimmering indie rock. Blue’s layered vocal harmonies and plaintive
melodies steadily build into an emotive ballad, bolstered by iridescent guitar textures
and cathartic lyrical confessions.” – **Under The Radar**

“[‘Saline Waters’] is hauntingly beautiful, and her vocals have an alluring Tori
Amos or Kate Bush quality to them. The song has a dark-wave beat that gets you lost
in the music. The picturesque lyrics linger.” – **Riff Magazine**

” … mystical and chill-inducing…. Raconteur and chanteuse of the people, Alicia 
Blue invents her own line of folk with every release.” – **Grimy Goods**

“…listening to her songs feels like being invited into her intimate diary, a world
full of dreams and secrets.”  – **Atwood Magazine –  **_**2021 Artists to Watch**_

“Blessed with a rich, resonant voice, Alicia Blue invests every phrase of her songs
with gutsy attitude.” – **Music Connection**

**Rising Folk-Pop Songstress**
**ALICIA BLUE****Declares ‘I Want It Faster’ in PunchyNew
Anthem

**Self-Directed iPhone Video Clip Out Now**

_**Inner Child Work Part 2 **_**EP Out January 20th **_**via**_ **Magnetic Moon **

**December 9, 2022 (Nashville, TN)** — _“There’s a killer, a killer, hooked on me/
There’s a finger, a trigger, won’t let me be/There’s a pressure, decidin’ how to
be true/But, how can you be when the killer is you?.”_ folk-pop siren **Alicia Blue**
contemplates on her new single, **“I Want It Faster,”** asking some tough questions
and laying out an interior dilemma that’s all too familiar: the urge to act. Now.
Sooner. Faster. Even though it might not yet be the right time. It’s the anatomy
of self sabotage. The third single from the Los-Angeles-to-Nashville transplant’s
forthcoming EP,** _Inner Child Work PT. 2_**_ _(out **January 20** _via _**Magnetic
Moon**), which caused **Rocking Magpie** to recently observe, “Blue could easily
go the pop singer route—she has the voice for it and effortlessly writes sweet melodies,”
features a stylish video (which premieres today on YouTube), which was shot and 
directed by Alicia herself. Watch it here: [https://youtu.be/dg2b-v8lKfg](https://reybee.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f67b4587af2b2ef9aa80ed984&id=391b427e3f&e=615f2b8493).

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“I Want It Faster” underscores her ability to write disarmingly honest odes to battling
the beasts that lurk inside our heads. If this were a horror film, Alicia Blue can
confirm the unsettling news: the call is _definitely_ coming from inside the house.
But, there’s also some positivity in knowing that this struggle is a perfectly normal
part of the human experience.

“It’s the critical voice within, sharpening our existence and purpose, but then 
also cutting them, too,” she confides. “It’s double-edged. Only one who has mastered
life has mastered this.”

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**“I Want It Faster” Single Artwork**

In other words, only Buddha himself is spared from this particular quandary. Alicia,
meanwhile, recommends making peace with our pushy instincts by trying to better 
understand where our motivations come from and, perhaps, realizing that sometimes
our minds are lying to us. _“What does it mean that I am all of these things?” _she
muses in “I Want It Faster,” deciding in the end that we must learn to merge all
the different aspects of ourselves—the good, the bad, and the ‘in a hurry’—and have
some compassion when self loathing arises.

“Compassion for that moment usually starts to dissolve those different parts of 
us… Or integrates them in a healthier way,” she says. “Making peace is the only 
option.”

“I Want It Faster” is Alicia’s most rocking single yet and the latest installment
in a creative exploration that’s built something toothier from the more hushed folk
of 2020’s gorgeous _Bravebird,_ a turn that’s caused **American Songwriter** to 
proclaim, “She’s stunning in her transformation from a dreaming poet to a living
artist, and in the short pocket of time since _Bravebird.” _Working with former **
Cage the Elephant** guitarist **Lincoln Parish** in the producer’s chair has brought
forward aspects of Alicia Blue’s musical personality that needed to flourish. Collaborating
suits her.

“I wrote this with the great **Lera Lynn**,” she explains. “She had the riff, which
echoed my concept. I’d had a poem, and she pretty much gave my lyrics a turn on 
their head so that they would punch straight through to the darker places. To the
gut. I never really knew how this song would sound in the end, but I think Lera 
did.”

The new video for “I Want It Faster” marks Alicia’s fourth self-directed clip made
on her iPhone, and in between performance shots, the footage she’s compiled brilliantly
reflects the themes in the song: a train ploughs forward, but the tilted horizon
makes its trajectory seem unruly; herded deer scurry around, forced to move by something
unseen. 

“It’s real life,” she says of her latest iPhone art. “Every moment of the video 
that wasn’t shot in the studio was an organic accumulation of regular moments I 
found valuable. They weren’t shot _for_ the video. They were shot over a period 
of months simply because I liked them. Because I found something beautiful that 
day and had to keep it. I walk in Shelby Park every morning. I see those deer everyday
and I love them, of course—the innocence, and yes, sometimes naïve nature in them,
always amazes me. That same nature I find in myself too, and that also amazes me.”

 “I Want It Faster” arrives on the heels of [**“Best Hands”** ](https://reybee.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f67b4587af2b2ef9aa80ed984&id=30736b5f0f&e=615f2b8493)
and “[**Young**](https://reybee.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f67b4587af2b2ef9aa80ed984&id=18eaa31a61&e=615f2b8493),”
the latter of which features **John Paul White** of **The Civil Wars **who** **also****
co-wrote the track, collectively giving preview to the upcoming second half of _Inner
Child Work_.   “These _Inner Child Work_ EPs and my existence as an artist come 
from a need to connect and develop relationships—yet simultaneously I’ve always 
felt like this lone candle in a dark room,” Alicia expresses, describing the self-
reflection she employed in writing the songs. For both EPs_,_ the former Los Angeles
native found herself working with aforementioned Nashville-based songwriter and 
producer **Lincoln Parish**, who helped to provide a solid musical foundation for
the new songs, allowing her to focus on conjuring her most creative songwriting 
to date. Recording in Nashville also gave Alicia a perspective on her life in Los
Angeles; having been born and raised in Southern California, and never having left
the city, not even for college. “These songs are really just about the difficulty
of navigating this life and not having all the proper tools to live it in the most
successful way. And by successful, I mean the healthiest way. I like to think that
getting this all out helps me.” 

Releasing her first EP in 2019, fate fell immediately for her with Starbucks asking
for her song “Magma” to be featured in stores worldwide _via_ their Starbucks Acoustic
playlist on Spotify. Garnering immediate attention as a songwriter and singer, Alicia
quickly became a pivotal figure on the LA songwriting circuit. She’s been featured
in publications including **Billboard** and **Atwood Magazine**, as well as LA’s
legendary **KCRW**. Alicia Blue’s first full-length album **_Bravebird_** was released
April 2020 in the middle of a global pandemic, securing spots on Spotify’s influential
_Fresh Finds Pop_ and _Fresh Finds Rock_ playlists and garnering a whole new round
of buzz and attention. In January 2021, she was featured at the top of **Atwood 
Magazine**’s “2021 Artists to Watch.” 

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_**Inner Child Work Part 2**_

**“I Want It Faster”** is now available _via_ **Magnetic Moon **and can be purchased/
streamed here. _**Inner Child Work Part 2 **_will be released on **January 20, 2023**
_via_ **Magnetic Moon**.   

[[_**Inner Child Work Part 2**_

**Tracklist**
1.“[Best Hands](https://reybee.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f67b4587af2b2ef9aa80ed984&id=e2aaf93a3e&e=615f2b8493)“
2. “Picasso Blue”3. “[Young (feat. John Paul White)](https://reybee.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f67b4587af2b2ef9aa80ed984&id=00d0c5c477&e=615f2b8493)”
4. [“I Want It Faster”](https://reybee.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f67b4587af2b2ef9aa80ed984&id=e4d39fc5ac&e=615f2b8493)
5. “Believer”

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