In our latest Digital Cover Story, Alicia Bognanno (bully) discusses how her new LP, 'Lucky For You,' became an outlet for navigating trauma after finding sobriety, losing her beloved dog, Mezzi, & watching her home state wage war on reproductive rights.
I’ve spent many years writing poetry, which means I’ve also spent many years watching my peers debate over how much one person should buy into the truth of any given poem they read. A vessel built from the pillars of vulnerability, it’s rare to see a poetry connoisseur truly embrace the “separate the poet from the poem” mantra that has sparked so much Twitter discourse—especially within a world that hardly anyone beyond it cares about.
Bognanno categorizes the work of her first three albums as “morning afters,” in which a lot of her creativity would kick in during the comedowns after nights of heavy using. “I would feel copious amounts of guilt and shame and heavy depression, because drinking really triggered that for me. There were so many songs that I had gotten from the next day, when I just felt so weighed down by it all that all I could do was write,” she explains.
“Days Move Slow” was the first thing she made during the aftermath of Mezzi’s passing, when she finally got to a place where she could begin working again. “Whenever I was writing, she was always right next to me, all day, everyday. She was all that I saw while I was writing, so, after she passed, I was really avoiding coming back into this room,” Bognanno says, gestuing to the space of instruments behind her. “When I was able to do that, it was the only thing that felt right.
“It was definitely the first time that I was the most-open to taking someone else’s input and getting closer to collaborating,” Bognanno says. “That was a very different, new step/obstacle for me, because I had totally just come up from this mindset of ‘fully do everything yourself so you never have to rely on anybody else.
From coming out on “Trying” eight years ago to feeling helpless in the wake of a trustless romance and cruel damage on “Hard to Love” in 2023 , Bognanno’s lyrics have never blurred the line, as she is very comfortable in her public-facing articulations of her own faults. But that spirit didn’t harden overnight.
The tune, even in its brevity, was written in response to the still-climbing death toll of violence occuring during the same era in history as Roe V. Wade getting overturned by the Supreme Court, which hit especially close to the bone for Bognanno, given that she lives in Tennessee—one of the leading states in the charge behind banning abortion nationwide.
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