{"id":74002,"date":"2022-02-18T12:14:35","date_gmt":"2022-02-18T12:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=74002"},"modified":"2022-02-18T19:19:06","modified_gmt":"2022-02-18T19:19:06","slug":"premiere-harper-starling-say-my-name-why-dont-ya-babe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2022\/02\/premiere-harper-starling-say-my-name-why-dont-ya-babe\/","title":{"rendered":"REVIEW: Harper Starling &#8216;Say My Name (Why Don&#8217;t Ya Babe)&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"coming-off-this-week-s-valentine-s-day-and-self-love-day-harper-starling-s-newest-single-say-my-name-why-don-t-ya-babe-surfaces-at-a-perfect-time-there-is-never-enough-empowering-music-especially-by-someone-like-starling-whose-story-is-inspiring-and-quite-frankly-worth-an-audience\">Coming off this week&#8217;s Valentine&#8217;s Day and Self-Love Day, Harper Starling&#8217;s newest single, &#8216;Say My Name (Why Don&#8217;t Ya Babe),&#8217; surfaces at a perfect time. There is never enough empowering music, especially by someone like Starling, whose story is inspiring and quite frankly worth an audience.\u00a0<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just a while after the track begins, you will hear the mature, confident voice of Harper Starling, a Los-Angeles based singer\/songwriter who&#8217;s making her way over to the UK&nbsp; to support the super-boy band The Wanted on their arena tour.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8216;Say My Name (Why Don&#8217;t Ya Babe) is a testament to Starling&#8217;s growth and turbulent journey. It is not only an upbeat, empowering song. The track symbolizes the singer&#8217;s ability to go against all odds and excel at it. At eight years old, her diagnosis with Tourette&#8217;s Syndrome could have turned her world upside down. But all her symptoms miraculously disappeared once she stood on a stage. If this doesn&#8217;t scream with faith, I don&#8217;t know what does.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Starling sings: &#8220;All I ever wanted, all I ever needed was to love myself.&#8221; Via this message accompanied by a dance-pop beat, Harper delivers a mix of best of both worlds &#8211; a dance bop with an underlying vulnerability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Say My Name (Why Don&amp;apos;t Ya Babe)\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/track\/0SMk3Q6Ii6cZqwqkkrgKHH?si=82c507b90def4dc2&#038;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Pop Artist, Harper Starling, dances her way into the start of 2022 with a brand new single, \u2018Say My Name (Why Don\u2019t Ya Babe)\u2019 in addition to an exhilarating tour with Pop boy band legends The Wanted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":74003,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"American Pop Artist, Harper Starling, dances her way into the start of 2022 with a brand new single, \u2018Say My Name (Why Don\u2019t Ya Babe)\u2019 in addition to an exhilarating tour with Pop boy band legends The Wanted.","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,9,15853,21453,21456,21446],"tags":[28723,13510,77,370,1008,28724],"class_list":["post-74002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","category-new-releases","category-new-releases-films","category-new-singles","category-quick-single-reviews","category-single-reviews","tag-audio-premiere","tag-harper-starling","tag-new-release","tag-new-single","tag-premiere","tag-say-my-name-why-dont-ya-babe"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yMhl-jfA","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":73925,"url":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2022\/02\/tour-announcement-la-based-rising-pop-star-harper-starling-will-join-the-wanted-on-their-uk-arena-tour\/","url_meta":{"origin":74002,"position":0},"title":"TOUR ANNOUNCEMENT: LA-Based Rising Pop Star Harper Starling Will Join The Wanted On Their UK Arena Tour","author":"Polly Havelock","date":"08\/02\/2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Harper Starling releases an upbeat, empowering track, \u2018SAY MY NAME (Why Don\u2019t Ya Babe)\u2019. 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