‘Who’s Your Daddy’ is a stellar new piece of indie folk that asks profound questions with stark complexity and honesty. My New Mixtape’s latest single is sweet on the senses but leaves a deep emotional impact.
Created by American musician, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Jarrett Nicolay, based in Alexandria, Virginia, My New Mixtape is a musical vessel dreamt up to deliver Nicolay’s alternative folk concoctions, latest of which is the short, sweet, and superbly beautiful song at hand, titled ‘Who’s Your Daddy’. This guitar and vocal duet, featuring soft acoustic lullabies and gentle vocal croons, is a profoundly deep song that fits into the “existential dread pop” label that has traveled alongside My New Mixtape’s music.
At its core a song that confronts the Trump voters, asking them tough questions like “Are you happy now?” and “Are you better off?”, ultimately tying this topic to more grandiose themes of belief and religion with the titular question “Who’s your daddy?. The style with which this depth is presented is exquisitely soft, deliberate, and delicate. The guitar arpeggio is deafeningly simple, and the Bon Iver-tinged vocal layering delivers the alternative folk flair right home.
At just a second shy of two minutes long, ‘Who’s Your Daddy’ is a concise and concentrated song that asks big questions and leaves them open for the addressee to pine over. A wholesome and tiny musical meal with a profound impact.