Katy Kenny Releases “Child”
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Katy Kenny drops highly anticipated debut single “Child” that mixes Green Day’s distorted guitars with Adele’s vocal chops to tell a story of growing up.
After writing, recording and performing music for over seven years, Katy Kenny finally releases her debut single “Child” that tells the story of how she got here. Beginning the first verse with the line, ‘She was a regular at that coffee shop in Peekskill’, Kenny sets you exactly where she was when she wrote this, her hometown in a suburb north of NYC. She turned to Instagram to say that although this song is reaching the ears of listeners in 2024, it was written when she was nineteen years old in 2018. Home from her sophomore year of college for holiday break, Kenny was trying to understand what it meant to grow out of the place and people she grew up with. This song focuses on the relationship with her father, and how while everything was shifting and changing around her, he was the one constant she was holding onto for dear life.
With high energy and playful verses, Kenny describes the dynamic of her and her fathers relationship: ‘He’d say ‘use your head for more than just a hat rack’/ she’d yell back with things I can’t repeat’. This quote is one Kenny’s father actually said to her the night that she wrote ‘Child’. It went directly into her iPhone’s notes app just to be woven into a song later. The chorus serves as a reminder that she knows that she can’t help time from passing and what happens during it, but she knows that at the end of the day, she’ll be there for her father and vice versa. The bridge is where Kenny reveals the emotional weight of growing pains through a poetic stream of consciousness that explodes into a guitar solo (performed by Richie Baretta) and then a powerfully layered vocal delivery. The song is tied up beautifully with a stripped chorus, where Kenny again reminds herself despite what happens in the future, she and her father will see it through.
24-year-old musician, Katy Kenny, grew up infatuated with music. Thanks to her father’s taste in classic rock, she was introduced to rock legends at an early age and found herself stealing her older sister’s iPod to listen to playlists flooded with everything from 2000s Pop Punk giants, to early rock n roll from the 60s, and everything in between. Ever since, she’s been inspired to make music just as captivating as they were to her at the time. As an artist, she hopes to be a mix of fun and feeling. Her words are presented with powerful vocal deliveries that are the nucleus of her mixes, soaring over grunge-inspired arrangements. If you dig through the distorted guitars and high energy drum tracks, you’ll find that Katy is telling vulnerable stories about the struggles of adolescence, mental health, and just general existence in a world that is not always kind.
