- 2024-12-15
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MUSIC
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Camille Schmidt Releases New Song “Stanley”
Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter Camille Schmidt will release her upcoming debut album “Nude #9” on January 10, 2025.
From the album, she released a new song “Stanley” on December 13, 2024.
The song is the second single off of the album, following “XOXO” released last month.
The track reflects her keen balance of the insane and the quotidian, honed over years of writing fiction and a prior career in comedy television.
The song evokes an absurd and poignant image of a woman “going nowhere,” finding strange comfort in the oddballs who seem just as lost as her.
The track was written by Camille Schmidt and produced by Ben Zaikai. The accompanying music video was directed by Henry Nelson.
Camille Schmidt said of the song, "I started thinking about my plane ride the night before. This woman in front of me had been texting a friend about her boyfriend, Stanley (who I later discovered was a few rows behind us). I was thinking about the loneliness you feel when you're alone, but also the deeper loneliness when you’re with someone, and that person doesn’t fill the hole inside you the way you’d hoped. It was a time when I was searching for comfort in anything - overheard conversations, interactions with strangers, little jokes I would make to myself."- Camille Schmidt made the debut album with Los Angeles-based producer Ben Zaidi.
She would write at least a song a week; by the end of a few months, she had quickly amassed over 45 new songs.
Camille Schmidt said of the album, “A lot of these songs were written completely stream of consciousness.”
Lyrics on the album are culled from Camille Schmidt reflecting on her experiences.
“I spent so much of my life not being honest with myself or other people,” she said of her writing process for the album. “I thought, what if I stop trying to get good with myself? With anyone else? What if I just reflect the truth of what I’ve seen? What if I just say what happened?” - source : Apple Music
