thesongbomb.com

After failing miserably at art lessons at the tender age of eight, Stephie Coplan snapped her paint brush in half and promptly entered a third-grade life crisis. She was too young to buy a sportscar, so she asked her parents for a piano instead. By high school, she was writing songs, recording her first album, winning classical piano competitions, and traveling from her small town in Maryland to perform all over the world, from Switzerland to Disneyworld to New York City.

Like a musical M&M, Coplan's outer shell of crisp, colorful lyrics protects a sweet, gooey, melancholic center of rich, observational storytelling. Blending humor, poignancy, and one hell of a vocabulary, Coplan creates characters ranging from hipster snobs to wild-child hippies to sadistic flight attendants and effortlessly builds entire worlds around them - all within catchy, tunefully crafted pop songs. Adam Schlesinger of Fountains of Wayne noticed similarities to his own songwriting, commenting that Coplan seems "destined for the same commercial purgatory as the rest of us 'smart' songwriters."

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