Singer-songwriter Harriette has shared a new single, “bc i love you” via AWAL Recordings. The song balances airy synths and chugging electric guitar with a postmortem examination of a failed relationship. “I wrote this song a day after I got broken up with – I was trying to figure out what went wrong & was blaming myself,”  Harriette explains. “It’s crazy the hoops we jump through to try to make something work because we don’t want to be alone. I guess this song is the product of me processing that phenomenon. It’s why I felt so crazy and alone in this relationship. The song came together so quickly and it was almost effortless to put together in the studio. It is also my favorite song to sing on the EP :).”

The Texas-born but Brooklyn-based artist will release her debut EP, I Heart the Internet, on April 27.  The latest single is the third song Harriettehe has shared – “Goodbye Texas” and “Fucking Married” which was released last Fall. 

To celebrate the release of I Heart The Internet Harriette will play a record release party at Brooklyn’s at Baby’s All Right on April 26 – tickets are available  HERE.  Harriette is also excited to announce she has been confirmed as the support for the upcoming Joan tour of North America.  The dates kick off on May 13 in Atlanta, GA and conclude in Little Rock, AR on June 16.  Along the way she will stop in Washington, DC, Chicago, Toronto, Seattle, and more.  Tickets for all Harriette shows are on-sale now here.

Growing up in Texas as a tall blonde with a guitar and a penchant for twang, Harriette just refused to fall into a stereotype—even if she was passionate about the craft and writing songs for herself. Instead of studying music, Harriette headed off to New York City to study art at Parsons. But when the COVID pandemic sent her back home and a snippet of music she offhandedly posted to TikTok went viral, she figured it was time to accept that a life in music was inevitable. I Heart the Internet exemplifies that beguiling, lowslung ease and insistent sense of self, witty modernist barbs and open-hearted confessions swimming through honeyed, country-adjacent indie pop.

“I didn’t think country was my brand, but then anytime people heard me play they’d tell me it was,” Harriette smiles, the Texas orbit retaining a pull even now that she’s moved back to Brooklyn. Growing up equally obsessed with The Chicks and Sheryl Crow as Taylor Swift and Hillary Duff, she explains, the place where Southern warmth meets pop guile has always been a sweet spot. She replicates that duality perfectly on “Fucking Married”, a track where she processes the news that her teenage sweetheart got married just a few years after their high school graduation. “I wish you the best, but that sounds like shit/ And I’m so glad that I’m not it/ Cause I’m so cute, I’m twenty-two/ And I’ve got so much left to do,” she sings, chased by pitch-perfect wordless harmonies and twanging guitar.

After gaining a surprise fanbase and acclaim for her TikTok post of a breakup song called “at least i’m pretty” in 2021, Harriette set to work exploring where music could take her. “At first I was like, “I guess I’ll just be a TikToker,’” she says. The Texan dropped out of the college she’d enrolled in (“I was failing anyways,” she smirks), and began to post more music and make connections with other musicians and producers. Eventually she connected with Toronto-based producer Sam Jackson Willows, and the two quickly made plans to record a few tracks. “I was so glad to work with someone my age so that I could just ask stupid questions, try random ideas, and just speak my mind,” Harriette says. “It was a very trusting, open space.” 

That environment clearly pays off on I Heart the Internet, a set of songs fueled by personal experience and completely natural in their disposition; Harriette’s best lines feel simultaneously whip-smart in their writing and as though you’re listening to a friend explain their latest personal drama. 

One listen to the record, and it’s immediately clear who Harriette is and the depths of emotion and cunning songwriting she has to offer. As a debut project, I Heart the Internet offers listeners a conversation with a new friend, one full of razor wit and tenderness, an intimacy and sense of home even as the rest of the world changes and pulls away.

Photo Courtesy: Muriel Margaret