Taste Test: Willow Stephens folds hearts like ‘Paper Cranes’
The singer-songwriter crumbles after a breakup, only to later emerge with bruises but more powerful.
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Heartaches and other crippling matters of the heart can send you spiraling out of control. We naturally feel things deeply and unapologetically. That’s just what it means to be human these days. Singer-songwriter Willow Stephens compares herself to a paper doll, whose insides are easily crumpled and forgotten, with a new song called “Paper Cranes.” “Give me something real ’cause paper hearts don’t feel,” she sings. Her angelic cords pack a 1-2 gutting punch, guitar trickling in glistening droplets around her, as her body crumbles to the cold, hard ground. She’s left to rot and at the mercy of herself. In turn, as fragile as a metaphorical “paper world” might be, there is a remarkable correlation to how we feel pain – we might be made of bone and muscle and tissue, but we are as delicate. That’s the truth of it.
“Paper Cranes” is lifted from Stephens’ brand new album, All That Glitters, out everywhere now.
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