Fantasia Contest #26 • Confirmations
Oct 24, 2021 20:47:49 GMT 1
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Post by alexeh on Oct 24, 2021 20:47:49 GMT 1
From every gaping hole, a new garden fully grows
The time has come for the next Niol entry into the Fantasia Contest to be revealed, and this edition, flying the flag is none other than 
Allison Ponthier, an indie folk and country singer from Marhit, Niolskiaj, with the song "Cowboy".
"Cowboy" was written in 2017 but the release was delayed all the way until 2021, "because I was a little teen hipster rebel I was like: 'I don’t need country music, I don’t want to make that.' But I was so wrong, because it was an amazing way to express myself", Ponthier said while talking about the song in an exclusive press reveal. She wrote the song after meeting her girlfriend about the need to come out about her sexual orientation, "I guess it was time to live my truth as a gay cowboy."
Inspired by artists such as Kacey Musgraves, Orville Peck and Chappell Roan, the lyrics of the song show Ponthier's Swift-ian flair for making her personal anecdotes feel like a shared experience. “Before ‘Cowboy,’ I had only ever written songs that other people would think were cool. I rarely wrote something that came from my heart,” she says. “I only started writing ‘Cowboy’ because I literally could not process the thought of coming out to people and having them perceive me differently.”
And the song is accompanied by an equally camp and meaningful music video. “I wanted to create an alternate universe that looked like a Broadway set and outfits that looked like Halloween costumes,” she says. Inspired by the B-movie aesthetics of camp icons like Elvira and Vincent Price, the “Cowboy” video sees Ponthier wander through a Technicolor dreamscape where she encounters, among other curios, a flying saucer, a skeleton on horseback, and a dancing carton of cigarettes. “I love high-contrasting colors. so every detail was designed to have the most visual impact,” she says.
We wish Allison the best of luck in the Ruyjin Republic!
Allison Ponthier, an indie folk and country singer from Marhit, Niolskiaj, with the song "Cowboy"."Cowboy" was written in 2017 but the release was delayed all the way until 2021, "because I was a little teen hipster rebel I was like: 'I don’t need country music, I don’t want to make that.' But I was so wrong, because it was an amazing way to express myself", Ponthier said while talking about the song in an exclusive press reveal. She wrote the song after meeting her girlfriend about the need to come out about her sexual orientation, "I guess it was time to live my truth as a gay cowboy."
Inspired by artists such as Kacey Musgraves, Orville Peck and Chappell Roan, the lyrics of the song show Ponthier's Swift-ian flair for making her personal anecdotes feel like a shared experience. “Before ‘Cowboy,’ I had only ever written songs that other people would think were cool. I rarely wrote something that came from my heart,” she says. “I only started writing ‘Cowboy’ because I literally could not process the thought of coming out to people and having them perceive me differently.”
And the song is accompanied by an equally camp and meaningful music video. “I wanted to create an alternate universe that looked like a Broadway set and outfits that looked like Halloween costumes,” she says. Inspired by the B-movie aesthetics of camp icons like Elvira and Vincent Price, the “Cowboy” video sees Ponthier wander through a Technicolor dreamscape where she encounters, among other curios, a flying saucer, a skeleton on horseback, and a dancing carton of cigarettes. “I love high-contrasting colors. so every detail was designed to have the most visual impact,” she says.
We wish Allison the best of luck in the Ruyjin Republic!
Cowboy
by Allison Ponthier
timeslot 1:05+
lyrics
by Allison Ponthier
timeslot 1:05+
lyrics
It took New York to make me a cowboy
Now everybody knows
Even if I change my clothes
Familiar, but strange, like an android
From every gapin' hole
A new garden fully grows from me
Wasn't ready, I wasn't ready
I had a foot in my mouth, oh
Saw the cutters through barbed wire
I didn't know I could come out
Undoin' the weavin' of the old roots
My greatest enemy
Took up residence in me
I feel like a criminal with no history
Runnin' from the law
Though I really loved them all
Wasn't ready, I wasn't ready
I had a foot in my mouth, oh
Saw the cutters through barbed wire
I didn't know I could come out
I wasn't ready, I wasn't ready
I had a foot in my mouth, oh, no
I know her everything by memory
I'm just a girl from the south
Born from the beige
These feelings made me feel strange
A neon sign
Not the only one of my kind
It took New York to make me a cowboy
Now everybody knows
Even if I change my clothes
Familiar, but strange, like an android
From every gapin' hole
A new garden fully grows
Born from the beige
These feelings made me feel strange
A neon sign
Not the only one of my kind
This is how I felt in the Bible Belt
Wanna be that girl for someone else
Now everybody knows
Even if I change my clothes
Familiar, but strange, like an android
From every gapin' hole
A new garden fully grows from me
Wasn't ready, I wasn't ready
I had a foot in my mouth, oh
Saw the cutters through barbed wire
I didn't know I could come out
Undoin' the weavin' of the old roots
My greatest enemy
Took up residence in me
I feel like a criminal with no history
Runnin' from the law
Though I really loved them all
Wasn't ready, I wasn't ready
I had a foot in my mouth, oh
Saw the cutters through barbed wire
I didn't know I could come out
I wasn't ready, I wasn't ready
I had a foot in my mouth, oh, no
I know her everything by memory
I'm just a girl from the south
Born from the beige
These feelings made me feel strange
A neon sign
Not the only one of my kind
It took New York to make me a cowboy
Now everybody knows
Even if I change my clothes
Familiar, but strange, like an android
From every gapin' hole
A new garden fully grows
Born from the beige
These feelings made me feel strange
A neon sign
Not the only one of my kind
This is how I felt in the Bible Belt
Wanna be that girl for someone else
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