{"id":482589,"date":"2019-02-22T13:29:58","date_gmt":"2019-02-22T20:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=798987"},"modified":"2019-02-22T13:29:58","modified_gmt":"2019-02-22T20:29:58","slug":"grace-vanderwaal-trades-her-ukulele-for-guitar-in-new-stray-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/grace-vanderwaal-trades-her-ukulele-for-guitar-in-new-stray-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Grace VanderWaal Trades Her Ukulele for Guitar in New \u2018Stray\u2019 Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/grace-vanderwaal-stray-video.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Grace VanderWaal adjusts to the growing pains of her teen years in the desolate, moody video for her new single \u201cStray.\u201d This is the 15-year-old pop prodigy\u2019s first new single since last March\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZcCp7488puc\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Clearly<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On \u201cStray,\u201d VanderWaal ditches her signature ukulele in favor of showing off her voice over a grittier guitar sound. \u201cI wanna feel the way I used\/I wanna move the way I used to,\u201d she sings on the tune\u2019s somber chorus. VanderWaal appears alone in the Blythe Thomas-helmed visual, roaming the desert and riding her bike blindfolded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2019Stray\u2019 is close to me,\u201d the singer said in a statement.\u00a0\u201cNot because it\u2019s the re-start of my continuing path, but because it explains the exhilarating fear and freedom of growing up. Growing up feels like a storm you weren\u2019t prepared for. But how do you prepare? By practicing and appreciating you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2016 at age 12, VanderWaal won\u00a0<em>America\u2019s Got Talent<\/em>. She released her debut EP\u00a0<em>Perfectly Imperfect<\/em> soon after and unveiled her debut full-length\u00a0<em>Just the Beginning<\/em> in 2017. Outside of music, she will soon star in Disney\u2019s adaptation of Jerry Spinelli\u2019s\u00a0<em>Stargirl\u00a0<\/em>in the titular role. It will be the first original film to premiere on Disney\u2019s streaming service in 2020.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/grace-vanderwaal-new-song-stray-798987\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grace VanderWaal adjusts to the growing pains of her teen years in the desolate, moody video for her new single \u201cStray.\u201d This is the 15-year-old pop prodigy\u2019s first new single since last March\u2019s \u201cClearly.\u201d On \u201cStray,\u201d VanderWaal ditches her signature ukulele in favor of showing off her voice over a grittier guitar sound. \u201cI wanna [&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":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-482589","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 12:08:56","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":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}