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Debbii Dawson Announces Where Have All The Good Men Gone? EP, Shares Title Track Co-Written With Joel Little
Debbii Dawson's Where Have All The Good Men Gone? EP arrives 6/26 on RCA. Title track, co-written with Joel Little, pairs bright '80s pop with a rueful premise.
Debbii Dawson’s new EP Where Have All The Good Men Gone? arrives 6/26 on RCA. Its title track, co-written and recorded with Lorde collaborator Joel Little, is an upbeat single that frames a bleak question in joyous pop.
The Los Angeles ased singer makes bright, ’80s-style aerobic pop that would fit on a Flashdance soundtrack. Dawson went viral in 2022 with an ABBA cover on America
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merica’s Got Talent. She followed with the EP Learning in 2023 and How To Be Human in 2024, and released singles last year including “Gut Feelings” and “I Want You.”
The title track leans on Dawson’s crystalline voice and pulsing production. It shares the uptempo efficiency of recent pop jams while keeping a buoyant surface over a rueful premise. In the video she fights a nefarious supervillain and finishes with a triumphant keytar solo.
Every day, I watch the news and think, “Wow, this is terrible.” And every day seems worse than the day before. I find myself wondering if there are any good people left on this planet, why am I seeing supervillains everywhere I turn? I was binging Smallville at the time, wishing that Superman would swoop in and save the day. That9;s the headspace I was in when I met up with Joel Little at his home in Los Angeles. I found a spiderweb in my car, but no spider, so I took an Uber to his house just to be safe. We wrote the song pretty quick because he had a flight to Middle Earth, also known as New Zealand, to catch. We bounced some production ideas back and forth over text but really dove in the next time we were together in person. A fun fact is that a large portion of the production for this song was done on the Korg RK-100S2 keytar, it9;s so versatile and has been a staple in many of my recent projects. At the time, I had also just seen Toto and Men At Work in concert, and it left me walking on air. What an immensely talented group of people; they were definitely additional inspirations. I wanted to write about our grim reality in a non-emo way. I hope this song shakes listeners up a bit and causes action. Good people are hard to come by these days, but if we each try to be the good we9re so desperately looking for, we just might have a chance.
Check it out below. The Where Have All The Good Men Gone? EP is out 6/26 on RCA.
