Arising from blandness, Deanna Petcoff takes confessional songwriting to a new level in her latest release. “I wrote this song when my friend was dating the most boring guy alive,” she explains. “He really was so normal, met the bare minimum of being a decent person, and yet she was infatuated with him.” Though she originally penned the song only to wind up her friend, her band insisted to see it through after hearing it played back.
The disappointing daily grind of dating is hardly new material, but Petcoff offers a fresh take. Rather than simply criticising the other person’s behaviour, she uses it as a jumping-off point to interrogate her own choices – “Why do I waste my life?” she wonders in the chorus. Less about getting unlucky on Tinder and more about what people will allow themselves to tolerate from long-term relationships, it’s a deep dive into the highs and lows of so-called romance.
