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Katie Pruitt expectations

3/13/2020

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​Katie Pruitt (from the album Expectations available on Rounder Records)
Not a coming-out record, Expectations watches the life of gay youth Katie Pruitt unfold as she ponders ‘what’s it life to be normal’, trying to make sense and a way into her life in “Normal”, picking sin over a possible heavenly future with “Loving Her”, and airs a grievance asking ‘who’s the asshole that convinced us all that happiness isn’t free’. Expectations is the debut album from the Georgia native, Nashville, Tennessee resident. The tracks are a way for Katie Pruitt to answer her own questions, the songwriter sharing that ‘why is being ‘gay’ and ‘Christian’ somehow mutually exclusive? I wrestled with this concept my whole life. It made no sense to me that ‘love’ could be a sin. I finally decided that even if it was a sin, I didn’t care. I was in love for the first time with a beautiful girl that loved me back. It didn’t feel wrong to me. There was a tough phone conversation with my father, his words still ringing in my head…‘I’m sorry, I just don’t understand it’ to which I responded, ‘people don’t like what they don’t understand.’
The voice of Katie Pruitt is an ocean of possibilities when she rages in “Grace Has a Gun”, whispers her inner-thoughts in “Wishful Thinking”, speaks her story in musical notes over the piano ramblings of “It’s Always Been You”, and bounces on the rubbery audio waves of the title track. Facing off and breaking free, Katie Pruitt sees the irony of calling a collection of songs about listening to your own voice Expectations, and she reminds that ‘this record’s really about letting go of what other people expect from you, and being free to be to just finally be yourself’. The madness of living the life you seek plays out like a movie on the screen of “My Mind’s a Ship (That’s Going Down)” as Katie Pruitt holds tight to love while she lets the past creep between the piano notes cradling the coming-of-age choices captured in the audio snapshots of “Georgia”.
Listen and buy the music of Katie Pruitt from AMAZON
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