{"id":973550,"date":"2019-11-15T08:34:49","date_gmt":"2019-11-15T15:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=912840"},"modified":"2019-11-15T08:34:49","modified_gmt":"2019-11-15T15:34:49","slug":"song-you-need-to-know-victoria-canal-drama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/song-you-need-to-know-victoria-canal-drama\/","title":{"rendered":"Song You Need to Know: Victoria Canal, \u2018Drama\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Victoria-Canal2.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span>Rising Spanish-American singer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/victoria-canal\/\" id=\"auto-tag_victoria-canal\" data-tag=\"victoria-canal\">Victoria Canal<\/a> released her new single \u201cDrama\u201d as a message to her inner critic. <\/span><span>The 21-year-old has been developing her musical ability since age 11, and \u201cDrama\u201d proves she\u2019s opening herself up to new possibilities in pop, evolving her sound from her&nbsp;<\/span><span>2016 single <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GkSwG2n3GkM\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cCity Shoes.\u201d<\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cDrama\u201d splashes in colorful lyrics and up-tempo guitar strumming. The track <\/span><span>opens with the line \u201cI am magical, spiritual, only show up as my highest self,\u201d which functions as a morning mirror mantra. In the midst of this encouragement, she dives into a heavy drum drop, and the chorus begins to emulate her frustration. A subtle piano melody ushers in lines berating the voice in her head: \u201cYou are clinical, cynical, don\u2019t leave room for nobody else.\u201d The repetitive triplets make it easy to sing along.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201c\u2018Drama\u2019 is my simple guide to brushing off whatever or whoever is making you feel small,\u201d Canal said of the track on her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B4U7cGYHZKr\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>. Recite, release, repeat. In the song\u2019s lyric video, she dances around like the weight is really off her shoulders, celebrating her win against the drama of her inner mean girl.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The single is paired with the singer\u2019s collaboration with Nike on the Jordan Flyease. Canal <\/span><span>released her debut EP, <em>Into the Pull<\/em>, in 2017. After touring for about a year, she has settled down in Los Angeles to promote the single and write more music.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Find a playlist of all of our recent Songs You Need to Know selections <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/user\/rsedit\/playlist\/4z2ebTTKukc34eMDlqrnW4?si=mwZhc_Q_TeeZkOYCOwBiXA\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><i><span>on Spotify<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/victoria-canal-drama-song-you-need-to-know-912840\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rising Spanish-American singer Victoria Canal released her new single \u201cDrama\u201d as a message to her inner critic. The 21-year-old has been developing her musical ability since age 11, and \u201cDrama\u201d proves she\u2019s opening herself up to new possibilities in pop, evolving her sound from her&nbsp;2016 single \u201cCity Shoes.\u201d \u201cDrama\u201d splashes in colorful lyrics and up-tempo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-973550","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 17:39:28","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=973550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}