Shy Girls — Songs About People, Not Pronouns
Shy Girls is the product of Portland based artist Dan Vidmar. Shy Girls’ music occupies the musical sensibilities that have attracted artists from Drake to Purity Ring; slightly electronic, mellow, mood-based, beat-driven personal songs. It is music that that resides in the space of the mind at 2 am, the wind down, the ride from or to someone you like a little or a lot; songs that deal with connection (or lack of), observations about a place in the world, a need to seek and sort out authenticity, musings inspired by heartbreaks and hangovers.
Vidmar came upon the sound naturally. “I used to play in a lot of rock bands, just like play covers and rock and roll music in high school, I listened to a lot of radio as a kid and then I was into more experimental and indie music in college-sort of had this sort of long runway approach to where I am now, and I guess it was when I moved to Portland about 5 years ago that I started dabbling with sort of my version of electronic pop music, because I just had a laptop, you know Logic and Ableton, just dabbling in that world, and I was listening to a lot of soft rock from 80s, and stuff like that was bustling at the time and just started finding my voice through that process. The songs are kind of guided by my voice in a lot of ways, so, letting my voice and go and do its thing and not overproducing.”
