Porter Chapman is apparently most well known as the live drummer for The Moth & the Flame’s 2019 tour but with his single as Bad Heather,“Stay In L.A.” from his forthcoming Sad Heather EP due out later in 2022, shows not just some inventive production on the percussion but an energetically forceful songwriting. The song has an intentionally lo-fi sound that best suits the messy emotions expressed in the song with some grit and the distorted quality of amplified feelings. There is a feeling of charged emotion borne of having to deal with a clinger on who is trying to ride your coattails to some imagined higher place but insists they’re going to be huge out of an overblown ego combined with a lack of self-faith. You know the type and it isn’t just in some music or art scene but someone who thinks they can use other people as a stepping stone to asset their own sense of self-importance. Probably most of us have witnessed this misbehavior but Chapman has given some unvarnished expression of the frustration with that social dynamic. Watch the video for “Stay In L.A.” on YouTube and follow Bad Heather at the links below.
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