Emma Danner recently introduced her new self-titled album as Red Ribbon with the confidently moody lead single “Crying in My Car,” a late-night-drive tune taking a pensive look at romance in the rearview mirror. With Red Ribbon’s release still over a month out, she’s returning today with another new single that’s either a journey further down the road of heartbreak or one looking past it at the joyful partnerships of friends—and perhaps it’s this uncertainty as to how to approach this fork in the road that lends the track its simmering eeriness. “I wanted the raw emotions, the grief, and freshness of that time to be palpable in the recording,” Danner shares of “YSFP” (which stands for the track’s pained repetition “You’re so fucking pretty”), which was penned surrounding a breakup. “I wanted to hear it in the vocals.”
Discussing the track further within the context of the self-titled record, she continues: “To work up the courage to write this, I had to fool myself into thinking I was writing about one of my best friend’s wedding. I wanted to say ‘You’re so fucking pretty’ in a sense of awe to her—because she is so beautiful to me. But it became so obvious that this is a breakup song. And that this record is so much about (although not entirely) that ending. I tend to have clarity in my work before I have clarity in my mind. So many times, I’ve written about something only to see it come to fruition later. I need to be careful about it. I presume it works the way that many things do: thoughts turn into words, which turn into action, which turns into reality. It’s not like magic or anything, it’s just how it goes.”
Lucky for us that breakup turned into this verging-on-chaos-but-never-quite-crossing-that-line indie-rock tune, which turned into a nighttime-jam music video. Check that out below, and pre-order Red Ribbon here ahead of its release on November 1 via Danger Collective.
