DEBBY FRIDAY - SO HARD TO TELL

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🗓️ 29 March 2023

⏱️ 3 minutes

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DEBBY FRIDAY - "SO HARD TO TELL" from the 2023 album GOOD LUCK on Sub Pop

Nigerian-born, Toronto-based artist DEBBY FRIDAY needed some convincing before designating today's Song of the Day as the lead single from her debut album, GOOD LUCK, released just last week via Sub Pop Records.

"Every single person that I would play the album to was like, 'This song, this song, this song, this song — this one has to be the first single!'" she told Exclaim!. It's a surprisingly softer side than we saw on DEBBY's 2019 EP DEATH DRIVE, with a graceful co-production from Graham Walsh (METZ, Holy Fuck).

“I have a lower register and speak with vocal fry so I don’t know what came over me when I made this track,” she stated in a press release. “I have never in my life sung like this before and I had no idea I could even make these kinds of sounds with my voice. There’s no pitch effects on ‘SO HARD TO TELL,’ it’s all me.”

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0:00.0	You're just a young girl, all alone by yourself in the city
0:28.5	I like you, don't need help, honey, honey
0:35.0	Is this heaven or hell, when it gives life this?
0:41.0	Oh, it's so hard to tell, and I know you
0:47.0	I know you so very well, you are not partying
0:53.0	You are not just help, but you earn it
0:59.0	Are you under the spell when you give life this?
1:05.0	Oh, it's so hard to tell
1:11.0	Oh, it's so hard to tell
1:24.0	Oh, it's so hard to tell
1:32.0	Baby, baby, the tears stay forth from your eyes
1:38.0	When the sun goes down
1:41.0	The pickles they do not cry, danger, danger
1:48.0	Can't you see for yourself when it gives life this?
1:54.0	Oh, it's so hard to tell, and you know it
2:00.0	You know it's so very well, lady, Friday
2:06.0	All you do is rebel, time goes tick, tick, tick
2:12.0	And you just can't help yourself when it gives life this
2:18.0	Oh, it's so hard to tell
2:24.0	Oh, it's so hard to tell
2:30.0	Oh, it's so hard to tell
2:36.0	Oh, it's so hard to tell
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