Frances Whitney is a brand-new, stunningly talented indie singer-songwriter who I firmly believe is destined for stardom. ✨ I’ve basically become the unofficial president of her fan club. 😊 Some links:
- New song of the summer just dropped! 🔥🔥🔥STREAM “STILL HAVE JULY”!!!
- Join my Discord with the Frances Whitney Nation role.
- Frances Whitney playlists on Spotify & Apple Music, including her 3 current + 6 older songs (“daisythedog” on Spotify, “Frances Lee” on Apple).
- Video of Frances’s amazing concert on June 11 at Winston House in Venice, California.
- My TikToks about Frances’s music – including some awesome covers & unreleased original songs.
- My Frances Whitney Masterdoc / “TED Talk”:
- More links & videos to come soon.
Although I’m unofficially “Frances Whitney Nation” now, I had never heard of Frances until April 5, when my mindless scrolling on TikTok while getting a late-night snack landed me on her TikTok Live. When she sang this original song, I was instantly hooked:
I was stunned. Often on TikTok Live, you’ll find women playing guitar, singing Taylor Swift covers & such, and although they often have lovely voices, they rarely jump off the screen as special. But Frances was different. Her singing voice was gorgeous, her vocal control insane, and her songwriting off-the-charts great.
It felt sort of like wandering into a Seattle coffee shop in 2002, or a rural Vermont town house in 2017, to find a young Brandi Carlile or Noah Kahan performing to a small audience, and immediately clocking them as future stars.
How could could someone this talented still be relatively undiscovered? (I have twice as many TikTok followers, which is nuts. I’m just some guy. She’s the next big thing.) And how lucky was I to have found her so early in what I genuinely believe will be a meteoric rise?
I don’t think I’ve ever said this about such a brand-new aspiring artist before, but I’m saying it now: Frances absolutely has the raw talent to be a star. A superstar, even. You know how Chappell Roan has gone from playing small festivals to commanding giant crowds in just 3 years? Or how Noah Kahan burst onto the scene with similar suddenness? That can totally happen for Frances too.
Her voice is just stunning, and her songwriting has an emotional depth & rawness that reminds me of the great singer-songwriters who annually populate my Spotify Wrapped list: Noah, Brandi, Taylor Swift, Stephen Kellogg, Olivia Rodrigo, Dar Williams, Indigo Girls, etc.
I say “brand-new” and “relatively undiscovered,” but that’s already starting to change. On May 15, Frances opened for Wasia Project at the prestigious Troubadour in West Hollywood, and by all accounts, she ate and left no crumbs, as Gen Z would say. In other words, she killed it.
Then on June 5 and 6, she opened for Katie Tupper at The Drake Underground in Toronto, as part of Canadian Music Week. (Frances isn’t Canadian – she’s from the Bay Area – but her record label is based out of Vancouver & Toronto.) The performances were incredible; stay tuned for videos.
Then, on June 11, she headlined at Winston House in Venice, California — her first proper headliner gig, at a venue with a history of showcasing talented musicians when they’re on the precipice of skyrocketing to fame. E.g., Noah Kahan in 2016, Billie Eilish in 2017, Janelle Monáe in 2018.
Mark my words, Frances is going to end up on that list. I’m flying out to L.A. (from Denver) for the Winston House show, and I fully expect to wow people someday with the fact that I once saw Frances Whitney in concert for just $17. When she’s headlining Red Rocks and selling out stadiums, that will seem CRAZY.
(Not to mention, I got a whole-ass song dedicated to me, basically! Incredible bragging rights someday, LOL.)
Here’s the full concert video. More to come soon from the Winston House show.
Anyway, here’s my edit of another unreleased song, “Biggest Fan”:
Here’s a six-song set by Frances in NYC in March 2023:
Here’s part of another beautiful unreleased original song, “Old Friends”:
And yet another unreleased original, “20-Something”:
Here’s a video compilation that I made from several of her TikTok Lives:
And here are a couple of compilations of just covers:
Are you on the Frances hype train yet? If so, here are those links again:
- Join my Discord with the Frances Whitney Nation role.
- Frances playlists on Spotify and Apple Music, including her 3 current + 6 older songs (listed under the name “daisythedog” on Spotify, “Frances Lee” on Apple).
- Follow Frances on TikTok & Instagram!
- My TikToks about Frances’s music
- My Frances Whitney Masterdoc / TED Talk video
P.S. From my Discord, some examples of France’s insanely good lyricism:
“I’m getting out of the business of missing what’s weighin’ me down”
“No good love tastes like pain, and losing yourself’s not a price worth paying”
“A little bored, a little blue when I’m untethered / The road is lonely but it goes on forever”
Something I Wanted
“You were a socialist at this time last year
Now you’re a socialite sipping craft beer”“God, it’s such a rush; please just try it
Stay Up With Me
Bathroom acoustics, Lana’s ‘Ultraviolence’
I’m spillin’ my secrets, you spilled your fries
I would die happy under tonight’s sky”
“I’m staring at the back of your head
Past Life
Your neck lit up red by an eastside sunset
That’s warning me today will end
And I’m wantin’ you to touch me
While knowing that’s just a losing bet
I’ve got a history of ruining what’s innocent
When I’m caught in between Desperate and genuine
I’ve crossed so many lines
But for you I’ll stay behind
And hope that I had you in a past life“
“Some meditation teacher said
Easy Street
‘Close your eyes and send some light’
So I sent you what’s left of mine
Inside my mind”
“Is it your turn or mine
Easy Street (bridge)
To overromanticize
What’s average at best in the perfect light
You’re my little evil twin
I will never love again
You say ‘come back to me, I need you under my skin’
Is it your turn or mine
To kneel by the bedside
And beg forgiveness for sins we didn′t commit
‘Sorry’ is our sacred prayer
We are going nowhere
Over and over and over and over again”
“Holding you is easy, but
Holding On
Holding on’s trying to fall back asleep
into a dream that slipped away”
“My eyes don’t look like mine tonight
Hollow
The bathroom mirror wakes me up
By shouting loud
That I told my mom I’d be careful
and I’ve been anything but.
For an anxious girl,
you’ve sure got a lot of nerve”
