Taste Test: Daisy Royce stages tale of old love with ‘Daisy Buchanan’
The folk singer embraces her theatrical-laced voice for a story of age old love on new song.
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Fabled love as you’ll find in such storybooks as The Great Gatsby, Anna Karenina and Breakfast at Tiffany’s evokes a sense of intoxicating whimsy, if even a bit naive. Fixtures of popular culture through the decades, these fantastical extravaganzas allow Philadelphia folk singer and songwriter Daisy Royce ample material to explore, to play, to search for her own narrative within the yellowed pages. With the aptly-titled, humorously-performed “Daisy Buchanan,” a flighty, carousel tune that injects a heavy, welcome dose of stage drama, Royce glides through the annals of time with a rose-tinted framework. “Our love felt like a storybook / So like a story, it goes on a shelf,” she sings through tasty morsels of tinny ukulele. Often dubbed worthy for a Disney princess, Royce’s voice is primed for the Broadway stage or well-suited for such silver screen notions as the Amy Adams-starring Enchanted. It’s both altogether spellbinding and carries the weight of the whole world.
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