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People Move On

from CARE​/​TAKING by Jess Cornelius

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    On her sophomore album CARE/TAKING, the New Zealand-raised, Los Angeles-based artist sings of personal upheaval with striking lucidity and emotional nimbleness. Where Cornelius’ 2020 debut Distance found her untethered moving across continents and entering a solo career after a long stint fronting the Australian band Teeth & Tongue, this LP has the songwriter firmly established in her California home but no less at a crossroads. Over 10 intricate and immediate songs, she grapples with squaring global crises and insecurities with the transformations and responsibilities in her life. It’s searching indie rock that’s as biting as it is comforting.

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“I wrote People Move On amid the disintegration of a pretty significant relationship. It was clear we were not going to make it, and I was facing being a separated parent of a tiny child while living on the opposite side of the world from my family and homeland. Although I might have been terrified, this song feels like me trying to convince myself otherwise: that people do this all the time, that they move on, that they survive, that there are better things on the other side. I think for this reason the song has the driving, forward momentum that it does. It was an act of manifestation, propelling us into the future.”

Propelled by the relentless forward motion of a defiantly-strummed electric guitar, “People Move On” is buoyed by frenetic piano stabs, layers of tightly dramatic vocal harmonies, alto saxophone, a sing-along-in-in-the-car chorus, and an unusual, ever-evolving song structure that freewheels into a lush acapella breakdown. Co-produced and played on by Mikal Cronin and recorded at Harmonizer studios, “People Move On” is the first single off Jess Cornelius’s new album CARE/TAKING.

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I used to be a different person
Go out in the evening
Had a lot to say
But all of that is changed
I gave away
Pieces of my body
And my brain
I’ll get it back some day

I used to think that I was different
Something in the movement
In my mind
But I was far from right
I was just the same
Full of hope and promise
Never coming true
I wanted more from you

But I know
That if I could do it all again
I’d do it just the same
‘Cause people are always forgetting the words to their song
And people move on
People move on

Please don’t tell me what you’re thinking
I don’t need to know it
You’ve said too much
That cannot be unheard
Now it’s a worm
Planted in my shadow
Growing by the day
I wish it didn’t work that way

But I know
That if I could do it all again
I’d do it just the same
‘Cause both of us have forgotten the words to our song
And people move on
People move on

And this, this is for my girl
It’s about her daddy
He is a good man
I loved him all I can
But love is a strange thing
For you it’s never waning
You are the big light.

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from CARE​/​TAKING, releases June 14, 2024
Produced by Mikal Cronin and Jess Cornelius
Performed by Jess Cornelius, Mikal Cronin and Steven Urgo.
Engineered by Mikal Cronin, Daniel McNeil and Jess Cornelius.
Written by Jess Cornelius

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Jess Cornelius Los Angeles, California

Jess Cornelius writes arresting songs that capture the disorientation and endless possibilities of being in flux. On her sophomore album CARE/TAKING, the New Zealand-raised, Los Angeles-based artist sings of personal upheaval with striking lucidity and emotional nimbleness. ... more

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