“A maybe piece of good news” is how Blond in Car describes the thing she’s carrying around at the start of “Come True,” and in the same breath she calls it a fact. Robin Schorr, who records as Blond in Car, had good reason to hedge. A longtime fan of Jay Som, the project of producer and songwriter Melina Duterte, Schorr had sent Duterte a message on Instagram about working together and was waiting to find out whether it would happen. She wrote this song in that gap.
Schorr spent years as a film producer before she started posting songs from her kitchen, often with an Omnichord, an electronic instrument played by strumming a touch-sensitive plate, balanced on an ironing board. That kitchen built her a following of more than 750,000 people. A film producer’s whole job is schedules and budgets, which makes the second verse a small act of rebellion: Schorr decides she gets to be optimistic and refuses to sit down and work out the logistics.
The chorus changes tense as it repeats. A promise that something will come true keeps tightening into the announcement that it’s already on its way, and the verses give the dream a physical address, a secret lodged in her heart and running through her veins.
It came. “Come True” became the first song Schorr and Duterte made together, and what started as an EP grew into GLIDER, a full album out November 4 with Duterte producing every track. Schorr wrote a song about treating a hope as a fact before the evidence arrived, and the song turned into the evidence.
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