If the name is not familiar to you, a certain song of hers probably is. In 2007, singer songwriter Simone White released “The Beep Beep Song” which went on to become the soundtrack for a car campaign and led to over one million views of her home-made $30 budget video. Her bio reads “I’m a word person, I like solving the puzzle”, listening back to that song after several years you realise how it was both the melody and her playfulness with those words made that song so appealing.
The good news is that Simone White is back preparing for the release of her latest full-length album Letter To The Last Generation on Oct. 18th.
Take a listen to her new single “So It Goes” on which she shared:
“‘So It Goes’ was one of the songs that seemed to appear out of nowhere. I was sitting down to watch a movie (‘Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind’) and instead I pressed pause, grabbed my guitar, sat on the end of the bed, and started playing. The song is about feeling a connection through time in space, to humanity, to some larger collective self. I was emerging from a long period of sorrow and the song was like a little beacon for me that things would get better. I had to play it a lot before I could play it without crying. I still have chills every time I sing the line ‘light the dark way home.'” – Simone White
Also appearing on the album are musicians Jebin Bruni (Aimee Mann, Meshell Ndegeocello), producer Pete Min, Andrew Bird and Grammy®-nominated bassist Kaveh Rastegar.
Letter To The Last Generation is out October 18th.
Interestingly, Simone is also a photographer (the main image for this post is a self-portrait) and on her website, you can find a beautiful series of still-life photos which look to be inspired by 16th Century still-life painters. On the photos, she says they “…are all shot with natural light on a tiny shelf in my house using flowers and plants found on my walks around the Echo Park area of Los Angeles. The color and light changes with the time of day and year.”