{"product_id":"jensen-mcrae-i-dont-know-how-but-they-found-me","title":"Jensen McRae - I Don't Know How But They Found Me!","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-12 col-12\" id=\"aec-product-description\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"aec-desc-review collapse\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"aec-product-description\" class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-12 col-12\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"aec-desc-review collapse\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-12 col-12\" id=\"aec-product-description\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"aec-desc-review collapse\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"aec-product-description\" class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-12 col-12\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"aec-desc-review collapse\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eFrom the very beginning, fans have fallen in love with Jensen McRae for the sharp, evocative and clear-eyed songwriting. McRae songwriting is vulnerable,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eyes, but it's also powerful for not holding back. Now, I Don't Know How But\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eThey Found Me! Delivers McRae's evolution from a promising young artist to a\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ebona fide songwriter and star. \"The most profound choices of my life,\" says\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eMcRae, \"have often felt like things I did before I was ready to do, and I had to\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003egrow into them.\" I Don't Know How But They Found Me! #is about what follows\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ewhen you have withstood what you thought might crush you. It's about\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003emeeting your limits and learning what you're capable of. \"I connected with\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ethe idea that I could've easily collapsed beneath the weight of what happened\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eto me, but I didn't. I didn't even know it,\" she says, \"but I was bulletproof the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ewhole time.\"\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eBorn and raised in LA, Jensen McRae has studied and made music for most of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eher life. She attended Grammy Camp in high school and graduated from USC's\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eThornton School of Music with a degree in Popular Music. McRae's debut\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ealbum, Are You Happy Now?, was written mostly when she was just 21, and was\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ethe first step in developing her now-devoted fanbase. Are You Happy Now?\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003enavigates identity from it's deepest foundations - life as a young, bi-racial Black\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand Jewish woman - to it's most personal musings - do I trust you, do I trust\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003emyself. McRae's trust in herself has borne out on multiple occasions, most\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003erecently and maybe most famously in the form of \"Massachusetts\". McRae\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eposted a solo verse and chorus, little more than a piece of a demo, and it\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ecaught fire online. Covers, duets, and an avalanche of new fans followed, and\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eMcRae capped the moment with a finished version and a summerlong tour\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003esupporting Noah Kahan.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eI Don't Know How but They Found Me! Takes McRae's now-considerable\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003epowers and hardwires them for mass appeal. Stealth single \"Savannah\" is one\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003efor the yearners. The pulsing, country-adjacent song immediately brings the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ebest of Phoebe Bridgers to mind, with McRae singing in an acrobatic whisper\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eover a feather light acoustic guitar. By the time \"Savannah\" hits it's crescendo,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eit's crystal clear McRae is an artist with her own singular power, as piano layers\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ewith guitar and McRae delivers a series of scathing indictments with grit and\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003econviction: \"You swore you'd raise our kids to end up just like you \/ well you're a\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003efalse prophet \/ and that's a goddamn promise.\" Meanwhile \"Let Me Be Wrong\"\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a bona fide anthem, a \"buoyant ode to rejecting perfectionism.\" Built once\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eagain on a simple vocal and acoustic guitar, \"Let Me Be Wrong\" builds step\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eover step in it's defiance; guitars layer, drums pick up the pace, and McRae\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003emakes space for everyone's mistakes. When McRae growls \"f*** those girls got\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eeverything\" it's a punch of both power and vulnerability, begging to be\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eshouted in unison the biggest possible crowd.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eThe unusual title of her second album is taken from a line in McRae's favorite\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003efilm, Back to the Future. A key protagonist survives a hail of bullets, and the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eimage resonated with McRae because, she said, she often feels a connection\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eto some future self guiding her decisions, especially in times of crisis. It also\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003einspired the album's cover, as McRae stands in a custom fireman's coat with\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ethe job's official marks and symbols stitched alongside abundant ones of her\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eown. The effect caught her off-guard; \"I was surprised how emotional it made\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eme to be in the fire coat,\" she says, \"forced to stand still, stand powerfully. I\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ecould feel myself becoming a symbol of my own hero's journey.\" If Are You\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eHappy Now? was her coming of age, I Don't Know How But They Found Me! #is\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eJensen McRae all grown up.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secretly Distribution-Bwscd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48746170482940,"sku":"DEDO365.1","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/4975\/4108\/files\/secretly-distribution-bwscd-music-vinyl-records-jensen-mcrae-i-don-t-know-how-but-they-found-me-656605166513-dedo365-1-1219388208.jpg?v=1770252909","url":"https:\/\/shop.thirdeyecomics.com\/products\/jensen-mcrae-i-dont-know-how-but-they-found-me","provider":"Third Eye Comics","version":"1.0","type":"link"}