Sofia Wolfson – 'Billboard'
There are two ways to make a song stand out from the crowd: strings and distinctively angelic vocals. LA-based singer-songwriter Sofia Wolfson showcases the latter on new single ‘Billboard’.
To a stripped back setting of melodic guitars, Sofia performs her magic. Her dreamy vocals are soothing yet absolutely heart breaking, painting pictures of bad dreams seeping into distorted memories through raw introspective lyricism – “Everyone you know is looking at me because I want you but you’re outgrowing me.”
Talking about the track, Sofia explains: “I wrote ‘Billboard’ during a time when I was having a series of really bad and seemingly related dreams. They all were causing me to wake up in a dissociative state and the only way I could try to make sense of them was to write about the experience. ‘Billboard’ became a reflection on a relationship I was half-in half-out of at the time, which I found to be even harder than being fully broken up. I didn’t know what I was doing or how to communicate, so I ended up internalising a lot of the feelings, which led to all the bad dreams. The song also explores themes of memory and the distortion of it. I was living in Boston at the time and I felt really outside of myself, like I couldn’t trust my memory.”
Words by Laura Freyaldenhoven