Los Angeles singer-songwriter Debbii Dawson presents Where Have All The Good Men Gone?, a new EP arriving June 26 via RCA Records, led by its self-directed title-track visual.
Written with Joel Little in Los Angeles and shaped partly on the Korg RK-100S2 keytar, the track turns modern frustration into retro-coded pop drama.
Everyday I watch the news and think, ‘wow this is terrible.” And every day seems worse than the day before. I find myself wondering if there are any good people left on this planet, why am I seeing supervillains everywhere I turn? I was binging Smallville at the time, wishing that Superman would swoop in and save the day. That’s the headspace I was in when I met up with Joel Little at his home in Los Angeles. I found a spiderweb in my car, but no spider, so I took an Uber to his house just to be safe. We wrote the song pretty quick because he had a flight to Middle Earth, also known as New Zealand, to catch. We bounced some production ideas back and forth over text but really dove in the next time we were together in person. A fun fact is that a large portion of the production for this song was done on the Korg RK-100S2 keytar, it’s so versatile and has been a staple in many of my recent projects. At the time, I had also just seen Toto & Men At Work in concert, and it left me walking on air, what an immensely talented group of people, they were definitely additional inspirations. I wanted to write about our grim reality in a non-emo way. I hope this song shakes listeners up a bit and causes action. Good people are hard to come by these days, but if we each try to be the good we’re so desperately looking for, we just might have a chance.
After Learning and How To Be Human, this new chapter feels bigger, brighter, and sharper.
With Where Have All The Good Men Gone?, Dawson turns social exhaustion into a widescreen sing-along with bite, charm, and weird sparkle.