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JUNE JONES IF ONLY FEAT. KATIE DEY

Australian pop musician June Jones has enlisted Katie Dey for her new track, 'If Only', and has announced her new album Pop Music For Normal Women. 'If Only' is a gently swaying electronic pop song with sweeping strings and synths, with Katie Dey providing echoey harmonies. Lyrically, the song is about isolation and the possibilities of creating and recreating yourself in video games, beautifully rendered in the animated video by Daniel R Marks. Jones describes her thought process behind the song and the video: “Written in a similar context of social isolation, If Only is a song where I’m looking outward to the friends I miss dearly and long to spend time with. I knew that I wanted to write a song for Katie to sing on, and I was thinking about our shared love of video games where you get to wield a big sword while I was writing the lyrics. Also there’s something very trans about the character creation tool at the start of a lot of RPG games, and I love that Daniel [R Marks] took that reference and expanded upon it in his music video." - Toby Evans-Jesra

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