Colleen Green shreds light on the beauty of maturing
Colleen Green wants you to join her in bidding adieu to the fuck-around 20s with a surfy dance party.
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Singer-songwriter Colleen Green turned 30 around the drop of her second Hardly Art release, I Want To Grow Up. But you could gather as much after a few whirls with the pop-tinged, tongue-in-cheek lyricisms grappling with aging and well, growing up. “Things That Are Bad For Me (Part I)” muses: “Humans are supposed to learn/ And change when things are going wrong.” She spells out the the initial directions of how to crawl from the mysterious bruise-filled pillow fort of those fuck-around 20s and hopefully emerge into the sometimes too-bright, stressful reality of late-onset adulthood. Green delivers these painfully real observations through a haze of fuzzy guitars and party hats — a tactic that softens the blow of such epiphanies. Instead of organizing a somber funeral to lay to rest immature impulses and self-destructive behaviors, Green throws a wild soiree. However she does so while keeping in mind post-20s hangovers are that much more brutal. Pop an aspirin and join the mild rage.
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