{"id":29321,"date":"2014-05-01T11:30:15","date_gmt":"2014-05-01T11:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wonderlandmagazine.com\/?p=29321"},"modified":"2017-03-01T13:11:18","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T13:11:18","slug":"new-noise-zella-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wonderlandmagazine.com\/2014\/05\/01\/new-noise-zella-day\/","title":{"rendered":"NEW NOISE: ZELLA DAY"},"content":{"rendered":"

We were hooked on Zella Day’s ‘Sweet Opehlia’ three seconds in so took it upon ourselves to find out more about the enigmatic new songstress.<\/p>\n

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Is Zella Day a pseudonym or were you born with the name?<\/strong><\/p>\n

My full name is Zella Day Kerr. My parents got married in Jerome, Arizona which is a small mining town with a lot of history. They found my name while researching Jerome, and Zella was the name of the main mine owner’s wife.<\/p>\n

We’re loving ‘Sweet Ophelia’ – can you tell us a bit more about how the track was born?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sweet Ophelia happened really fast. My producers and I were hanging in the studio when I started messing around with this simple riff and floaty verse melody. The first verse seemed to just fall out of me, and then we followed where the song was headed sonically. That crunchy beat seemed to coincide with the aura of the song. The song is so dreamy and the instrumentals bring it back down to earth.<\/p>\n