One of pop’s most exciting new voices, Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter Debbii Dawson, announces her new EP Where Have All The Good Men Gone? – out June 26 via RCA Records. The announcement arrives with an exhilarating new single and visual for the title track ‘Where Have All The Good Men Gone?’—a glimmering pop song that unfolds with sweeping ambition, playfully capturing the woes of living in modern society.
Infused with dynamic drums, cinematic, big-band flourishes, and wandering synths that drift beneath Debbii Dawson’s layered, yearning vocals, ‘Where Have All the Good Men Gone?’ feels both grand and intimately searching. Delivered with a sharp, honest wit, the track showcases Dawson’s undeniable charm as she humorously unpacks the frustrations and contradictions of searching for kind people with common sense in the modern world. Her storytelling is grounded in honesty and self-awareness, and she brilliantly invites listeners to reflect, laugh, and even rethink their own motivations and intentions. ‘Where Have All The Good Men Gone?’ feels both nostalgic and refreshingly current, positioning Dawson as a standout voice in the evolving pop landscape.
Dawson shares about the single, “Everyday I watch the news and think, ‘wow this is terrible.” And every day seems worse than the day before. I find myself wondering if there are any good people left on this planet, why am I seeing supervillains everywhere I turn? I was binging Smallville at the time, wishing that Superman would swoop in and save the day. That’s the headspace I was in when I met up with Joel Little at his home in Los Angeles. I found a spiderweb in my car, but no spider, so I took an Uber to his house just to be safe. We wrote the song pretty quick because he had a flight to Middle Earth, also known as New Zealand, to catch. We bounced some production ideas back and forth over text but really dove in the next time we were together in person. A fun fact is that a large portion of the production for this song was done on the Korg RK-100S2 keytar, it’s so versatile and has been a staple in many of my recent projects. At the time, I had also just seen Toto & Men At Work in concert, and it left me walking on air, what an immensely talented group of people, they were definitely additional inspirations. I wanted to write about our grim reality in a non-emo way. I hope this song shakes listeners up a bit and causes action. Good people are hard to come by these days, but if we each try to be the good we’re so desperately looking for, we just might have a chance.”
