Get To Know somegirlnamedanna In Diaristic New 'Hello I Am' Video

Her moniker is somegirlnamedanna (pronounced, as her run-on jumble of a name suggests, as "some girl named Anna"), nevertheless her song "Hello I Am" sounds like about 50 Annas, harmonizing and layering their voices with each other into a mechanized panoply of introductions. "Hello, I am just some girl named Anna," she sings not quite two minutes in. And then it's over.


As far as debut statements go, "Hello I Am" is quite utilitarian for this new artist who's being billed as just a young gal from "a small town in Minnesota," someone who grew up away from the day-to-day churn of social media and TV — though her Instagram-ready stage name of a name suggests she is aware several things about how the entire thing works right now. You could visualize it in the accompanying "Hello I Am" "official visualizer," also, where she delivers the song over hand-scrawled notebook lyrics and doodles.


"You wanna know who I am? I'm just some girl with blood on my hands from attempting to love the world," she sings, backed up by added digital version of herself. All of those are on display in the clip, plastered in front of scribbles of robots and sheets of loose-leaf paper filled with earnest declarations of self.


"Hello I Am" has all of the trappings of bedroom pop, and somegirlnamedanna fits neatly as a descendant of Billie Eilish, Clairo, and even someone like James Blake. She could may not have had access to also several screens, however she certainly had a radio, as this snippet of her covering Tracy Chapman's "Fast Vehicle proves.


Get to know some girl named Anna, as somegirlnamedanna, in the "Hello I Am" video above. Her debut EP is due out sometime later in 2020.