GRAMMY’S BEST NEW ARTIST ALESSIA CARA RELEASES NEW SINGLE, “GROWING PAINS”, TODAY

WATCH THE LYRIC VIDEO HERE

 

 

ALESSIA SET FOR DEBUT PERFORMANCE OF "GROWING PAINS" ON THE TONIGHT SHOW WITH JIMMY FALLON ON MONDAY, JUNE 18
 

 

TODAY’S RELEASE FOLLOWS GROUNDBREAKING RUN OF 6 GLOBAL PLATINUM HITS: “HERE,” “WILD THINGS,” “SCARS TO YOUR BEAUTIFUL,” “HOW FAR I’LL GO,” (MOANA), “STAY” (WITH ZEDD), AND “1-800-273-8255” (WITH LOGIC)

 

WITH OVER 7 BILLION STREAMS TO DATE, ALESSIA WAS THE MOST-STREAMED NEW FEMALE ARTIST OF 2017


 

15 June 2018 (Toronto, ON) - Grammy Award®-winning “Best New Artist” Alessia Cara, the most-streamed new female artist of 2017, released her brand new single “Growing Pains” today via Def Jam Recordings/Universal Music Canada, the country’s leading music company. Listen HERE. Cara also released the lyric video for “Growing Pains” today – watch HERE. “Growing Pains” is the first single from Alessia’s forthcoming sophomore album. The nationally televised debut of “Growing Pains” will be Monday, June 18 on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.
 
“Growing Pains” is Cara’s first new, self-penned, solo recording since her 2015 platinum debut album KNOW-IT-ALL, which spawned the multi-platinum, Top 40-chart-topping global hits “Here” and “Scars To Your Beautiful”. For Cara’s legions of die-hard fans, “Growing Pains” is the long-awaited follow-up to the 4x-platinum “1-800-273-8255” her historic collab­o­­­ration with fellow Def Jam artist Logic, one of 2017’s landmark singles with over 1.5 billion streams worldwide. Along with “Stay” - her double-platinum #1 pop collab with Zedd - and other hits, Cara has generated over 7 billion global streams to date.
 
Singer/songwriter Alessia Cara, a JUNO award winner for 2016 Breakthrough Artist of the Year in her native Canada, went on to receive the “Rule Breaker” honor at the Billboard Women in Music annual event.  She won MTV Video Music Awards in 2017 for Best Electronic Dance Video (for “Stay”) and Best Fight Against The System (for her multi-platinum #1 Billboard Pop Song “Scars To Your Beautiful” which she and Logic performed with Khalid as the climactic moment of this year’s Grammy broadcast). Alessia also won back-to-back ASCAP Pop Awards for “Stay” and “Scars To Your Beautiful”; along with Dance Song of the Year (for “Stay”) at the iHeart Radio Music Awards.
 
Cara has earned nominations for Favorite Female Artist – Pop/Rock at the 2017 American Music Awards, the People’s Choice Award for Favorite Breakout Artist, the Billboard Music Award for Top New Artist, the BET Award for Best New Artist, the BBC Award for Song of The Year, and many other honors. In addition, she lent her voice to the RIAA platinum “How Far I’ll Go” penned by Lin-Manuel Miranda, official song of Disney’s animated film Moana.

On “Growing Pains”, Cara grapples with feelings of confusion and isolation, searches for peace, and ultimately finds joy in the face of her rapid-fire transition from childhood to becoming a young adult and an artist. Read the lyrics below.

 

"Growing Pains” Lyrics: 

(Verse 1) 
Make my way through the motions 
I try to ignore it
But home’s looking farther the closer I get 
Don’t know why I can’t see the end 
Is it over yet? 
 
A short leash and a short fuse 
Don’t match 
They tell me it ain’t that bad 
“now, don’t you overreact” 
So I just hold my breath
Don’t know why I can’t see the sun 
When young should be fun 
 
(Pre-chorus) 
And I guess the bad can get better 
Gotta be wrong before it’s right 
Every happy phrase engraved in my mind 
And I’ve always been a go-getter 
There’s truth in every word I write 
But still the growing pains, growing pains
They’re keeping me up at night 
 
(Chorus) 
(hey hey x8) 
And I can’t hide 
‘cause growing pains are keeping me up 
at night (x2) 
 
(Verse 2) 
Try to mend what’s left 
Of my content incomprehension 
As I take on the stress 
Of the mess that I’ve made 
Don’t know if I even care for “grown” 
If it’s just alone 
 
(Pre chorus) 
(Chorus) 
 
(Bridge) 
It’s starting to look like 
Ms. Know-it-All can’t take her own advice
Can’t find 
Pieces of my peace of mind
I Cry 
More than I want to admit but I can’t lie 
To myself, to anyone 
Cause phoning it in isn’t any fun 
Cant run
Back to my youth the way I want to 
The days my brother was quicker to fool 
AM radio, not much to do
Used monsters as an excuse 
To lie awake
Now that monsters are the ones that I
Have to face 
No band-aids for the growing pains
 

 

 

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