Taste Test: Daisy Royce unfolds a ‘Series of Two-Week Love Stories’
The theatrical folk-pop newcomer broods on her past to find why she dated the wrong men on a new song.
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Your 20s are a time of trial and error, and perhaps falling flat on your face. From growing your professional sphere to finding love in a sea of weedy romance, it’s like Alice in Wonderland but without any kind of magic. Theatrical folk-pop starlet Daisy Royce ponders her many 20-something daliances as she searches for truth and what exactly went wrong. “Series of Two-Week Love Stories” exudes Royce’s reliably stick cinematic charm, harkening to the Disney renaissance to wondrous, dazzling effect. But through stardust clouds of strings and drums, she unpacks a heavy lyric about dating the wrong men. “There’s a story of my life somewhere / I wish that I could find it / One time, I think I dreamt it / But I didn’t right it down,” she flutters from the present back into the troubled, buried past. Does she find any sense of truth? Well, you’ll just have to find out.
“Series of Two-Week Love Stories” follows Royce’s other elegantly intoxicating song, “Daisy Buchanan.”
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