The Danish singer-producer has been steadily building a following since self-releasing her debut in 2019, and she dropped her third album on the celebrated British label 4AD last month. Its title, “Still,” is loaded with meaning, according to de Casier.
“On one hand, it’s definitely a nod to being like, ‘I’m still me,’ which is funny because I wouldn’t consider myself a huge artist. But when you reach a certain point, you have to prove to people that you’re still the same person,” she says via Zoom.
On the other hand, the title plays off the idea of “still” as a snapshot of the whos, whats, wheres and whys of the moments de Casier wrote and recorded the album’s songs.
“It’s just a still image of where I was when I was making it, and not necessarily where I am now,” she explains. “It can be a little weird to hear one of the songs, and maybe it’s years since I finished it, [but] for me it’s magical because it’s a still of where I was and I can be brought back [there].”
Take, for example, “Someone to Chill With,” off 2021’s “Sensational.” The song, which flits from Spanish guitar and trance memories to a neo-soul groove before bringing both together, sees the singer yearning for a no-strings situationship but asserting, “Just ’cause I’m alone don’t mean I’m lonely.” Written when de Casier was single, the song has evolved as she’s moved in and out of relationships in the time since.
“It can remind you that you’re young and there’s this part of your life that used to be this way, and now it means something else,” she says.
“Still” is full of familiar moments and moods. Standout “Ice” is a collaboration with rap duo They Hate Change that chronicles a chilly relationship and evokes memories of rap-R&B duets pumped out by the Ja Rule-Ashanti industrial complex. “Lucky,” which sounds like Michelle Branch’s “A Thousand Miles” if it were a drum-and-bass anthem, palpitates with the rush of young love, while “The Princess” is a ballad dedicated to the self and the urge to do it all: to have love and lust, to be a mom and have a job.
“The princess inside of me is holding on to her life,” de Casier sings on the latter song. “Is it wrong of me to want all the things I was shown all my life?”
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