Alex Lahey, Newsreader Download MP3
Back in spring, the playfully conversational Australian singer-songwriter Alex Lahey released her album The Answer Is Always Yes. Next month she’ll come out with an expanded edition of that album, with three extra tracks. We have yet to hear two of those new songs, “It Doesn’t Matter Anymore” and “When The Rain Comes Down.” Today, however, Lahey has “Newsreader,” a new song about what it must be like to report bad news on-camera.
Ahead of her upcoming UK and European tour, which kicks off in Vienna on October 2, Alex Lahey has announced an expanded edition of her latest album, The Answer Is Always Yes. It includes the new single ‘Newsreader’, which was co-written with Christian Lee Hutson and Jenny Owen Youngs during the sessions for the LP and features backing vocals from Australian news reporter Tamara Oudyn.
“Newsreader” is a tender acoustic number, with Alex Lahey singing that she’s falling in love with an anchor: “I’m in love with the newsreader, but I never know what she’s gonna say/ The world is such a fucked-up place, and it changes every single day/ I hope she’s gonna be OK.” Lahey says that the song was inspired by ABC News Victoria reporter Tamara Oudyn, who actually sings backup on the song.
Along with ‘Newsreader’, the new edition of The Answer Is Always Yes will include the bonus cuts ‘When the Rain Comes Down’ and ‘It Doesn’t Matter Anymore’. It arrives on October 6.
LYRICS
- I’m in love with the newsreader
- But she only ever gives me bad news
- Every update is doom and gloom
- And I know she feels shit about it too
- Too bad it’s on the autocue
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