Nashville, TN
Adeem The Artist’s new single “One Night Stand” possesses the finest qualities of a love song that would’ve played on Country radio a million times around the turn of the millennium. The warbly, baritone guitar, crispy snare drum, tenor harmonies, the last verse twist…they’re all there. And while “One Night Stand” is, in Adeem’s words, “A 90s pop country bop,” there’s one absolute difference from everything on the airwaves back then: this one is a Queer Country love song.
“Queer Country as a genre has meant a lot to me,” says the Eastern Tennessee-based singer songwriter. “Discovering Karen & The Sorrows, Paisley Fields, D’orjay the Singing Shaman, I had a community that I got stitched into with a rich tradition of political activism, demystifying theory, and reclaiming space in the cultural rooms where we’ve long sat unacknowledged.”
Of course, Adeem is no stranger to taking too-long-ingrained standards head on. Their last two albums Cast Iron Pansexual (2021) and White Trash Revelry (2022) garnered critical praise for not only exceptional songwriting and delivery, but for widening queer acceptance in the greater country music community; at times thoughtfully and gently and at times a wallop over the heads of those who were uninterested in listening. But “One Night Stand” doesn’t stand out as a call to action, it carries on the traditions Adeem gleaned from their community and asks more of their existing and potential audiences; all by being a fun, campy love song.
“One Night Stand” is the first single from Adeem The Artist’s upcoming, Butch Walker-produced album, Anniversary—due out May 3rd via Four Quarters Records and Thirty Tigers—and can be streamed or purchased today at this link.
Anniversary can be pre-ordered or pre-saved ahead of its release right here.
More About Anniversary: Recorded live to tape over five days at The Butcher Shop (Nashville, TN) and produced by Butch Walker (Taylor Swift, Frank Turner) with the master musicianship of Megan Coleman (Brandi Carlile), Nelson Williams (Jake Blount), Ellen Angelico (Wheeler Walker Jr.), Jessye DeSilva, Aaron Lee Tasjan, and Katie Pruitt, the 12-song collection is a stunning statement of empathy, humor, and deep introspection.
The groundwork for Anniversary began in earnest after Adeem met Walker for coffee, having caught the producer’s attention with some spirited shitposting on social media. Adeem had been a fan since Walker’s solo album Sycamore Meadows, which they heard while living in the Syracuse, New York, area after high school. “I was absolutely obsessed,” they say. “I was a Christian worship pastor and having all these doubts. The religious questioning and soul searching Butch was doing on that record was so important for me.”
Walker’s ability to blend sounds from classic to contemporary, commercial to experimental, gives Adeem license to play with a range of musical styles on Anniversary, while still remaining tethered to country and roots music. Fittingly, Anniversary also arrives on the date of Adeem’s marriage to their spouse Hannah, bringing with it a heightened sense of intimacy and urgency from a songwriter whose work is characterized by fearless, incisive lyric writing.
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