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Rainsford Is Over the ‘Sad Girl’ Era
Rainsford seems like the L.A. girl who has it all: the perfect family (her mother is Andie MacDowell), the perfect Instagram (she’s a model), and even the perfect soul (she adopts stray kittens.) But as she explores a future in pop music, her lyrics about life’s imperfections are, oddly enough, her best feature. Take “Brutal,” the 31-year-old’s hard-charging duet with the Norwegian pop singer Anna From the North. “I’m crying to a song that I used to dance to,” Rainsford intones in her bruising lower register. The song is reminiscent of Dua Lipa, Robyn, and Usher. She implores a lover to cut through the ambiguity and give her a straight answer (“brutal is better than confused,” they sing in unison.) Musically, “Brutal” is a no-brainer for an album single, but Rainsford isn’t so sure.&...
Rainsford Finds a Kind of Comfort in Heartbreak in New Single ‘Brutal’
In her first single since last October, up-and-coming singer-songwriter Rainsford just unveiled her latest love song, “Brutal.” The song was co-written with Charlotte Lawrence and features Anna of the North. [embedded content][embedded content] “Brutal” was co-written by Rainsford and musician/friend Charlotte Lawrence, while the music was done by Cameron Hale. As Olivia Rodrigo complains in her own song of the same name that “it’s brutal out here,” Rainsford, rather, admits that “brutal is better than confused.” Her lyricism parallels the pain of her heartbreak to that of carrying the sun and moon, all the while she might even enjoy the brutality of it. She usually writes her songs about her own experiences, but Rainsford was inspired on “Brutal” to write about one of Lawrence’s battles w...
