After having a not-so-minor age freakout before celebrating my birthday a couple of weeks ago, I’m relating hard to Daphnie’s latest single “28.” Daphnie cowrote this one with comedian Thomas Bleach to encapsulate all of the messy mixed feelings and nostalgia that can come as the years pass.
“People often talk about growing up referring to childhood, but in reality we don’t stop growing and changing, and the older you get the more confusing and weird it becomes.” Daphnie explained. “Something I didn’t realise could happen is having all the trademark signs of aging, being ‘2000 and late’ for listening to the Black Eyed Peas, not seeing friends or doing fun things as much; while also somehow not having your life together. I don’t wanna blink and miss it all, but it feels dangerously easy to.”
This track’s had a long gestation, but I’m so glad it’s out in the world when I needed to hear it most. Even if 28 seems pretty young from where I sit!
“The initial idea came together super quickly as we were getting nostalgic with the 2000s, but then we struggled along with the smaller details for nine months,” Daphnie admitted. “We easily wrote seven different pre’s, and churned through literally hundreds of (often awful) ideas for the chorus tag line. I feel like we really had to get through all the ‘clever’ ‘quirky’ ideas for it to realise all we wanted to say was ‘we’re too young to possibly be 28’.”
“28” comes from Daphnie’s EP which we’ll hear later this year.
Photo credit: Maya Luana