Singer-Songwriter Janet Devlin Featured on Myspace
Irish singer-songwriter Janet Devlin recently caught up with Myspace while she was in New York City promoting her Christmas EP, December Daze. Janet talked with Myspace about her recent release, her upcoming album, and much more. Below you can read some of the interview, but be sure to head over to Myspace to check out the whole feature on Janet Devlin.
A songwriter since the age of six, Devlin initially showed her chops on YouTube, posting covers of Elton John, City and Colour and Regina Spektor. She continued putting her spin on others’ songs during her time on The X Factor, finishing fifth in 2011. It wasn’t until 2014 when her debut, Running With Scissors, was released in the UK. (Early 2015 for us here in America.) A collection of whimsical folk-pop, Running With Scissors is drenched with sugary-sweet melodies and maladies that evoke your inner teen. Devlin serves as a delicate-voiced narrator audibly retracing memories from romances past, the plights of adolescence, growing up. It’s an album’s worth of a Top 40 showcase with its honesty and accessibility. It’s also an album that almost never was.
“I don’t believe in releasing anything I’m not happy with because then I have to sit in interviews and talk about something I’m not proud of and then guilt—not good with it—I couldn’t do it. I wouldn’t be able to live with myself.”
Check out Janet’s Christmas single “Happy Holidays” below:
“You want to be a Pokémon, you want to get better and better and better instead of going backwards.” She paused. “Did I just use a Pokémon reference?”
Her affinity for progression is translating to her music. Where Runningwas raw, its follow up will be even more evocative. Drawing inspiration from her Catholic upbringing, Devlin dives deep into past, her flaws with Holy Water, which she’s in the beginning phases of writing. Shrouded in mystery and metaphor, Holy Water tackles what Running merely touched on, she said.
“It’s almost like I’m confessing my sins and the only way you can be reconciled for your sins is by telling another person and admitting it to yourself, like confessions. So I figure if I write the song, I’m admitting it to myself, and by releasing it, by people hearing it, I’ll be forgiven for it completely because I’ve done both of those steps.”
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Janet’s new EP, December Daze is available now for purchase in record stores nationwide, on Amazon,iTunes, and the OK!Good Records shop. The EP is also available for streaming on Spotifyand Bandcamp. Be sure to check out all of our exclusive Janet Devlin merchandise in our webstore.
