{"id":5991,"date":"2025-03-05T16:24:03","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T21:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/?p=5991"},"modified":"2025-06-08T16:18:05","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T21:18:05","slug":"blending-cinematic-grandeur-with-the-intimacy-of-bedroom-pop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/?p=5991","title":{"rendered":"Blending Cinematic Grandeur With The Intimacy Of Bedroom Pop"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jillian Rose Banks was born in 1988 in Orange County, California, and started writing songs on a keyboard as a teenager to deal with the aftershocks of her parents\u2019 divorce. After uploading an early track, the brooding \u201cBefore I Ever Met You,\u201d to SoundCloud in 2013, she wound up closing out the year with two EP releases (eventually collected as her 2014 long-player Goddess). \u201cWaiting Game\u201d\u2014a sparse, powerful song driven by pulsing synths and moody piano\u2014catapulted her to further renown after it was featured in a Victoria\u2019s Secret holiday commercial.<\/p>\n

That a lingerie company chose to use Banks\u2019 music to sell its wares is fitting; with her early work, the songwriter established herself as a sensual and evocative voice, akin to R&B singer The Weeknd, with whom Banks has toured a number of times. Songs like 2014\u2019s \u201cBeggin For Thread,\u201d with its driving, percussive backbone and mesmerizing chorus, revealed Banks as capable of big hits, too.<\/p>\n

She pursued sharper production on 2016\u2019s The Altar and, in 2019, she released III, her most pop-centric album to date, unveiling a sound that mixes catchy melodies and dazzling production with elements of soul, funk, electronic, and industrial.<\/p>\n

Even when she\u2019s rejecting therapists\u2019 advice and flipping the bird to exes\u2019 exes, BANKS sounds positively revitalized on her fifth studio album “Off With Her Head”<\/strong><\/em><\/span>.<\/p>\n

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Jillian Banks\u2019 follow-up to 2022\u2019s Serpentina largely jettisons the smoky balladry that marked its predecessor in favor of sharp, skipping electro-pop\u2014representing something of a full-circle back to her star-making 2014 debut, Goddess.<\/p>\n

The callback is more than skin-deep, as BANKS brings back several key collaborators from her early days\u2014including UK dance impresarios like Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs and Lil Silva, as well as moody alt-R&B auteur SOHN\u2014to pitch in when it comes to Off With Her Head\u2019s sonically multifarious production.<\/p>\n

A few new friends join in, too: Sampha\u2019s unmistakable vocals mark the pulsing pop of \u201cMake It Up,\u201d while the ascendant rap superstar Doechii brings her fiery personality on \u201cI Hate Your Ex-Girlfriend\u201d with unmistakable lyrical bon mots like \u201cWrap a bow around your coffin like it\u2019s Christmas.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Jillian Rose Banks was born in 1988 in Orange County, California, and started writing songs on a keyboard as a teenager to deal with the aftershocks of her parents\u2019 divorce. After uploading an early track, the brooding \u201cBefore I Ever Met You,\u201d to SoundCloud in 2013, she wound up closing out the year with two […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5993,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-playlist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5991"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5995,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5991\/revisions\/5995"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}