Ben Naddaff-Hafrey

I think that folk music does love songs the best.

I think that folk music does love songs the best.

Folk or country, either one would be my leading contender for the genre that is best at love songs. And I think it's because on some level, like I think like a breakup song or a lost love song is superior to a straight up love song.

Folk or country, either one would be my leading contender for the genre that is best at love songs. And I think it's because on some level, like I think like a breakup song or a lost love song is superior to a straight up love song.

Because I think, like, if you're in love, you don't really need a song. Like, you feel this kind of symphonic... happiness, like there's something specific that you're experiencing with another person.

Because I think, like, if you're in love, you don't really need a song. Like, you feel this kind of symphonic... happiness, like there's something specific that you're experiencing with another person.

Like if you are experiencing lost love or unrequited love, there's something about a particular breakup story or sad romance song that like creates a community with you when you maybe feel otherwise alone or bereft. But I think that there's like wistful folk music, wistful country music kind of toes the line between these two things. Yeah.

Like if you are experiencing lost love or unrequited love, there's something about a particular breakup story or sad romance song that like creates a community with you when you maybe feel otherwise alone or bereft. But I think that there's like wistful folk music, wistful country music kind of toes the line between these two things. Yeah.

Yes, and this is part of my long con to get interviewed on Broken Record for my music. Well, you're close. Yeah, exactly.

Yes, and this is part of my long con to get interviewed on Broken Record for my music. Well, you're close. Yeah, exactly.

Well, I wrote this song about like a year after I first moved to Brooklyn. So I was like just out of college and I had moved to Brooklyn and I was living with a bunch of friends in what was, you know, actually quite a nice apartment. I had not made my corner of the apartment particularly nice. I was not having the best time that year. And I had, I think as an expression of...

Well, I wrote this song about like a year after I first moved to Brooklyn. So I was like just out of college and I had moved to Brooklyn and I was living with a bunch of friends in what was, you know, actually quite a nice apartment. I had not made my corner of the apartment particularly nice. I was not having the best time that year. And I had, I think as an expression of...

uh vague despair just like not really done anything to set it up i don't remember why this is but i remember i had like a tarp in the corner of the room i had a tarp in the corner of the room like a mattress and then a saw on the wall oh my god i thought it would be like fun to put on my wall but it looked terrifying um and that was like pretty much it and i remember distinctly walking into the apartment one time

uh vague despair just like not really done anything to set it up i don't remember why this is but i remember i had like a tarp in the corner of the room i had a tarp in the corner of the room like a mattress and then a saw on the wall oh my god i thought it would be like fun to put on my wall but it looked terrifying um and that was like pretty much it and i remember distinctly walking into the apartment one time

with a good friend of mine from high school. And I had like change in my pocket and I like took the change out of my pocket and I threw it in the corner. And she was like, why did you just throw your change in the corner? I was like, that is the corner of the apartment where I keep my change. And it was like, it was indeed like next to the tarp, like a pile of change.

with a good friend of mine from high school. And I had like change in my pocket and I like took the change out of my pocket and I threw it in the corner. And she was like, why did you just throw your change in the corner? I was like, that is the corner of the apartment where I keep my change. And it was like, it was indeed like next to the tarp, like a pile of change.

So there were no shades on the window. This was like a crucial thing. I just was like, Not super taking care of myself. Like, everything was totally fine. But my life was not in order. And then I started dating a friend of mine from college. Her name was Julia. And she was living in Nashville at the time. And we sort of, like, picked back up, talking to each other at a distance.

So there were no shades on the window. This was like a crucial thing. I just was like, Not super taking care of myself. Like, everything was totally fine. But my life was not in order. And then I started dating a friend of mine from college. Her name was Julia. And she was living in Nashville at the time. And we sort of, like, picked back up, talking to each other at a distance.

And then when she came to New York, we would hang out. And... I noticed that as Julia and I had been talking more and started seeing each other in Nashville and also in New York, that slowly I had begun to set up my room. I got shades for the window. They didn't actually fit, but I got handkerchiefs that extended them to the bottom. I got rid of the tarp.

And then when she came to New York, we would hang out. And... I noticed that as Julia and I had been talking more and started seeing each other in Nashville and also in New York, that slowly I had begun to set up my room. I got shades for the window. They didn't actually fit, but I got handkerchiefs that extended them to the bottom. I got rid of the tarp.