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One Million Love Songs ♡

by Bnny

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    Cover Photo by Alexa Viscius
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    ❤ "One Million Love Songs" on split blue & red color vinyl
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    Screen-printed in Chicago, IL.

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1.
Missing 01:54
snow is falling and we’re kissing holding hands yeah now nothing’s missing march is crying but the flowers bloom I couldn’t have met you not a minute too soon time is a strange thing forgotten a lot but I remember some things time is strange thing the window is open and I can hear the birds sing snow is falling and we’re kissing when I’m with you I almost forget that he’s missing
2.
I still remember the first time you said you loved me texting me at 2am from across the country I still remember the first time that it felt real to love again to feel yeah I’m hanging on to the sunshine I’m hanging on ‘til the next time yeah I’m hanging on to the good stuff yeah I’m hanging on to my big love my big love remember when we met I think we both forget standing in the street with nowhere else to be yeah I’m hanging on to the sunshine I’m hanging ‘til the next time yeah I’m hanging on to the good stuff yeah I’m hanging on to my big love my big love
3.
Crazy, Baby 02:17
a million love songs of our past write one quick ‘cause nothing lasts I wish the sun would just set I’m not tired of the dark yet I’m crazy baby I thought you knew forever I’m just born blue born blue summer is hot and smells like shit just one whiff of a cigarette all the summers of my past like watching a train that’s gonna crash I’m crazy baby (when I go out walking in the middle of the night and i’m feeling wrong) I thought you knew (‘cause I don’t ever feel right) forever (and you broke my heart but I broke yours too) I’m just born blue born blue (crazy baby) born blue
4.
don’t look back that’s what he said but I’m looking back and looking back again ‘cause lately I’ve been dreaming about everyone I’ve loved I’m running from the past but the past keeps catching up the past keeps catching up (I’m running I’m running) something borrowed something blue starting over what’s the use someone different someone new well fuck my dreams and fuck you too the past keeps catching up (I’m running I’m running)
5.
I’ve been dreaming about places that I never been take it back changed my mind I don’t wanna be friends I’ve been hoping that maybe one day you will see what’s more important was it them or was it me tell me dreaming hoping dreaming hoping screaming I got something in my pocket bet you thought I forgot it changed my mind take it back I don’t want you to leave changed my mind take it back now you gotta believe hoping dreaming hoping screaming dreaming dreaming dreaming
6.
Sweet 02:22
what’s the worst thing you’ve ever done now ask me ‘cause I need to tell someone I wanna come clean I wanna be free I’m so sweet don’t you wanna get to know me I’m so kind I’m only lying half the time what’s the worst thing you’ve ever done now ask me ‘cause I need to tell someone I gotta come clean I wanna be free you’re so sweet baby you’re too good for me
7.
wake up baby I’m ready for my kiss wake up baby can’t believe I love you like this wake up baby ‘cause nothing ever lasts loving you today but tomorrow always becomes the past nothing lasts come here baby you know just what I like come here baby and promise me promise we’ll keep trying nothing ever lasts nothing ever lasts
8.
Rainbow 02:59
I’ve got a rainbow on rainy day I ain’t perfect but he loves me anyway yeah I’ve got a rainbow on a rainy day but the past keeps getting in way and I’m caught up in the rain rainbow slipping slow trying to walk straight but i’m stumbling trying to forget you but I’m struggling yeah I’ve got a rainbow on rainy day but the past keeps getting in the way yeah the past still got something to say and I’m caught up in the rainbow slipping slow rainbow don’t ya go yeah I’ve got a rainbow on a rainy day but I can see my rainbow fading away
9.
Changes 02:36
new memories new feelings new hope and new reasons It’s the changing of the seasons little smile little kiss I’ve never felt safe like this new fears and new dreams so happy I could scream wahoooo It’s the changing of the seasons changes changes changing It’s the changing of the seasons
10.
Get It Right 02:28
I’ll get it right next time guess I got sick of trying I keep fucking up I ruin everything that I love I’ll get it right next time I’m trying I’m trying I’m trying promises and secrets baby can you keep it I’ll get it right next time I’m trying I’m trying I’m trying promises and secrets baby can you keep it promises and secrets baby I can keep it
11.
No One 01:25
no one loves me anymore burned some bridges and burned some doors now no one loves me anymore and I’ve been trying to change but you and I know that people just stay the same and I’ve been trying to be someone better than me now no one loves me yeah no one loves me anymore

about

There are one million ways to approach love, one million ways to experience love, one million ways in which love shapes both the course of our lives and how we choose to navigate that course. On her second album, Bnny’s Jessica Viscius looks love square in its many eyes and describes, with self-awareness and humor, not only what she sees, but what it makes her feel. Deep romantic love, breathy lust, generous self-love—and their opposites, self-loathing, resentment, disappointment—all make appearances on One Million Love Songs, Bnny’s revelatory second album.

Bnny’s debut, Everything, was written in the face of tragedy, following the death of Viscius’ partner, fellow Chicago musician Trey Gruber. It was a raw, honest album whose songs seemed to emanate from Viscius like a personal climate. Pitchfork called Everything “a beautiful record from wall to wall, comfort food for heartbroken insomniacs.” And while those songs have not lost an ounce of their power, performing them every night live across the US and Europe made for a new and different kind of exhaustion. It’s hard to access your grief all the time; it’s even harder to share it. “I wanted to make songs that are exciting to play—songs that make me feel happy,” Viscius says. “This album is about love after loss, getting older, and just trying to have fun with a broken heart.”

True to form, One Million Love Songs is a brighter, fuller record that shows Viscius’ immense growth as an arranger and artist. “Good Stuff” begins as soft slowcore, with a touch of Echo and the Bunnymen, but as it wakes up, Viscius channels the sunny chords and at-ease ’90s charm. “I’m hanging on to the sunshine,” she sings, her voice full and rich and carrying both the giddiness that line implies and an awareness of how silly that giddiness can feel. “Something Blue” rises, sighs, and rests in its own tension, Viscius’ voice calm with a self-assured form of acceptance. In “Changes,” she hangs a simple lyric on a straightforward melody like a sheet being draped over a clothesline, channeling Mazzy Star and mimicking the soft, gauzy, fresh feeling of realizing you’re able to begin it all again with a new person. “So happy I could scream,” she sings, and then she does.

Oh, but sadness can have its pleasures, too. “Heartbreak can be fun when you put things into perspective and think about how absurd and fleeting life is,” Viscius says. One Million Love Songs was written in the wake of a breakup that prompted a period of deep introspection and a grappling with her own self-destructive tendencies. Many of the songs here take it as a given that love will end. In “Crazy, Baby,” Viscius lays out her approach to love songs: “write one quick ’cause nothing lasts,” she sings, suggesting that any attempt to capture the green shoots of love’s first moments also carries within it the dying and decaying of the tree. “Sweet” is humid with self-loathing, a nearly bluesy lament in the vein of the Velvet Underground’s third record. “I’m so sweet,” she sings, her voice venomous with sarcasm, “don’t you want to get to know me?”

One Million Love Songs was recorded in Asheville at Drop of Sun and produced by Viscius alongside Alex Farrar (Wednesday, Indigo De Souza, Snail Mail), As with Everything, Bnny is primarily Viscius’ solo project, with assistance from her twin sister Alexa Viscius and a rotating cast of friends. The cover is a photo Alexa took of Jess while they were backpacking in Alaska. It’s an ambiguous image—you can read Viscius as relaxed and at ease, or you can read her as completely wiped out and drained. It’s an image that exists out of time, like the love song itself—songs that will always be relevant because people will always find themselves drawn to and apart from one another, with the millions and millions of complications those movements bring. The idea is to embrace all of it while remembering that everything passes. It seems instructive that the last thing Viscius sings on this album is “No one loves me anymore.” It seems equally instructive that she sounds completely free.

credits

released April 5, 2024

Recorded by Alex Farrar at Drop of Sun studios in Asheville, NC.

Bnny is Jessica Viscius, Alexa Viscius, Tim Makowski, Adam Schubert, and Matt Pelkey.

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