BLONDSHELL
PRESENTA IL NUOVO SINGOLO
23'S A BABY
GUARDA
DAL NUOVO ALBUM
IF YOU ASKED FOR A PICTURE
IN USCITA IL 2 MAGGIO VIA PARTISAN RECORDS/ VIRGIN MUSIC
"Teitelbaum’s follow-up to her 2023 self-titled debut is shaping up to be another collection of arena-sized pop rock with an axe to grind and a picture to burn." - Pitchfork (The 50 Most Anticipated Albums of Spring 2025)
"Teitelbaum offers candid dispatches from the darker, often unsung corners of a young woman’s experiences” - New York Times
"If You Asked For A Picture is more dynamic and it also feels a lot quieter, her settling more into singer songwriter mode, but it's far more mature."
- NPR (The most anticipated spring albums)
"Only one album in, and Sabrina Teitelbaum is already proving herself to be one of the most interesting up-and-coming songwriters of the 2020s." - Consequence
"'T&A' is a home run of an opening statement, and the sound of Blondshell becoming an indie star." - Billboard
"vulnerable, often funny, always honest record delivered in melodic, pop-leaning indie rock." - PAPER
"'T&A' feels like an elevated version of the Blondshell we know." - Paste
Blondshell (Sabrina Teitelbaum) is set to release her eagerly awaited sophomore album, If You Asked For A Picture, on May 2 via Partisan Records. Today, she further teases the album with the release of “23’s A Baby,” the metaphorical beating heart of the album.
Built around the most timeless, pop-minded chorus Teitelbaum has ever written and girl-group harmonies that hit like a wall of sound, the song is a full-throttle emotional release - stadium-sized in sound but intimate in its reckoning. Its hook - "23’s a baby, why’d you have a baby?" - is both an accusation and an aching observation, viewed through the lens of generational wreckage, parental fuck-ups, and the endless loop of trying to untangle the past while dragging it behind you. And yet, somehow, amidst the weight of it all, there’s compassion threaded throughout – an understanding that everyone’s still figuring it out, and that maybe nobody was ever ready.
She notes, “The song is partially about being in your twenties and feeling like you’re supposed to know everything (your parents even had kids around that age!) yet you’re truly in the weeds trying to figure out who you are. I wanted it to have a bit of a nursery rhyme feel. It’s a heavy subject so it was important to have fun when we made it.” Along with the song Blondshell shares a video.
Blondshell will celebrate the release of If You Asked For A Picture with an event on May 2, complete with freebies including stick & poke tattoos, a photo booth, and more.
Today’s single follows the stripped-back introspection of “Two Times” and the album’s crushingly catchy “T&A” which Blondshell played on Jimmy Kimmel Live!
If You Asked For A Picture sees Teitelbaum once again teaming up with producer Yves Rothman to craft a collection as potent and emotionally charged as her acclaimed 2023 debut. The upcoming album brims with an urgency, ambition, and devastating potency hinted at on Blondshell’s 2023 self-titled debut, the specificity, self-examination, and nonchalant humor of which turned her into one of the most lauded new artists in recent memory. Pre-order If You Asked For A Picture
If You Asked For A Picture tracklisting
Thumbtack
T&A
Arms
What’s Fair
Two Times
Event Of A Fire
23’s A Baby
Change
Toy
He Wants Me
Man
Model Rockets
If You Asked For A Picture borrows its title from a 1986 poem by the cherished American writer Mary Oliver, titled “Dogfish.” In it, Oliver grapples with the idea of telling one’s own story: how much to share, how much to keep for oneself — all questions Teitelbaum asked herself while writing the forthcoming LP. “There’s a part of the poem that says: ‘I don’t need to tell you everything I’ve been through. It’s just another story of somebody trying to survive,’” Teitelbaum says.
If You Asked For A Picture is alive with a more vital nuance both sonically and thematically, gesturing towards a deeper autobiographical story that taps into something painfully universal without being too overt. Teitelbaum explains, “The first record feels really black-and-white to me. This record has more questions.”
In the studio, Teitelbaum found herself confident and at home like never before, trusting her instincts as she developed an almost telekinetic shorthand with producer Yves Rothman. The result is a record of astounding sonic range – including sky-scraping ballads and colossal hooks that soar over waves of distortion, mixing layered textures and harmonic flourishes, or making unexpected hairpin turns between them. Primary among her production touchstones were unexpected curveballs like Queens of the Stone Age’s Rated R and Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Californication. Teitelbaum reveled in appropriating those hyper-masculine aesthetics for her uncompromising examinations of young womanhood, playing with performances of gender in rock.
Blondshell’s self-titled 2023 debut unleashed a writing style that gets under your skin: songs that are as visceral and anthemic as pop music with all the specificity, self-examination, and nonchalant humour of the best indie rock — songs you want to let crash over you, even as their strength is too concrete to be washed away. The release garnered her critical acclaim and a devoted fanbase and she has since toured relentlessly, playing shows including major festivals and a tour with Liz Phair, on top of her own headline dates. In Summer 2024, she made appearances at high profile festivals.
In support of the album she performed on The Tonight Show and CBS Saturday and the album garnered countless year-end accolades. In 2024, Blondshell released the standalone single “Docket” featuring Bully, which landed on NPR, Rolling Stone, and Esquire’s top songs of the year, and she was featured on A24’s Everyone’s Getting Involved: A Tribute To Talking Heads Stop Making Sense, covering the band’s “Thank You For Sending Me An Angel”.
In the time since Blondshell, the image of Teitelbaum’s life has changed considerably. As the accolades accrued, she spent more time on the road than at home. This rootlessness naturally impacted Teitelbaum’s relationships with others and with herself. “When you travel a lot, you see different possibilities for who you can be,” Teitelbaum says. “So there were a lot more questions coming up. What do I want my life to look like? Maybe it’s just the nature of being two years older, but I’m more comfortable with nuance now, and I’m more comfortable with gray areas.” There’s an open-endedness to where If You Asked For A Picture lands: it’s a no-skips, triumphant sophomore record that captures the unresolved process of figuring out who you are, too wise to suggest that it has a definitive answer.
Camilla Di Chiara
PRESENTA IL NUOVO SINGOLO
23'S A BABY
GUARDA
DAL NUOVO ALBUM
IF YOU ASKED FOR A PICTURE
IN USCITA IL 2 MAGGIO VIA PARTISAN RECORDS/ VIRGIN MUSIC
"Teitelbaum’s follow-up to her 2023 self-titled debut is shaping up to be another collection of arena-sized pop rock with an axe to grind and a picture to burn." - Pitchfork (The 50 Most Anticipated Albums of Spring 2025)
"Teitelbaum offers candid dispatches from the darker, often unsung corners of a young woman’s experiences” - New York Times
"If You Asked For A Picture is more dynamic and it also feels a lot quieter, her settling more into singer songwriter mode, but it's far more mature."
- NPR (The most anticipated spring albums)
"Only one album in, and Sabrina Teitelbaum is already proving herself to be one of the most interesting up-and-coming songwriters of the 2020s." - Consequence
"'T&A' is a home run of an opening statement, and the sound of Blondshell becoming an indie star." - Billboard
"vulnerable, often funny, always honest record delivered in melodic, pop-leaning indie rock." - PAPER
"'T&A' feels like an elevated version of the Blondshell we know." - Paste
Blondshell (Sabrina Teitelbaum) is set to release her eagerly awaited sophomore album, If You Asked For A Picture, on May 2 via Partisan Records. Today, she further teases the album with the release of “23’s A Baby,” the metaphorical beating heart of the album.
Built around the most timeless, pop-minded chorus Teitelbaum has ever written and girl-group harmonies that hit like a wall of sound, the song is a full-throttle emotional release - stadium-sized in sound but intimate in its reckoning. Its hook - "23’s a baby, why’d you have a baby?" - is both an accusation and an aching observation, viewed through the lens of generational wreckage, parental fuck-ups, and the endless loop of trying to untangle the past while dragging it behind you. And yet, somehow, amidst the weight of it all, there’s compassion threaded throughout – an understanding that everyone’s still figuring it out, and that maybe nobody was ever ready.
She notes, “The song is partially about being in your twenties and feeling like you’re supposed to know everything (your parents even had kids around that age!) yet you’re truly in the weeds trying to figure out who you are. I wanted it to have a bit of a nursery rhyme feel. It’s a heavy subject so it was important to have fun when we made it.” Along with the song Blondshell shares a video.
Blondshell will celebrate the release of If You Asked For A Picture with an event on May 2, complete with freebies including stick & poke tattoos, a photo booth, and more.
Today’s single follows the stripped-back introspection of “Two Times” and the album’s crushingly catchy “T&A” which Blondshell played on Jimmy Kimmel Live!
If You Asked For A Picture sees Teitelbaum once again teaming up with producer Yves Rothman to craft a collection as potent and emotionally charged as her acclaimed 2023 debut. The upcoming album brims with an urgency, ambition, and devastating potency hinted at on Blondshell’s 2023 self-titled debut, the specificity, self-examination, and nonchalant humor of which turned her into one of the most lauded new artists in recent memory. Pre-order If You Asked For A Picture
If You Asked For A Picture tracklisting
Thumbtack
T&A
Arms
What’s Fair
Two Times
Event Of A Fire
23’s A Baby
Change
Toy
He Wants Me
Man
Model Rockets
If You Asked For A Picture borrows its title from a 1986 poem by the cherished American writer Mary Oliver, titled “Dogfish.” In it, Oliver grapples with the idea of telling one’s own story: how much to share, how much to keep for oneself — all questions Teitelbaum asked herself while writing the forthcoming LP. “There’s a part of the poem that says: ‘I don’t need to tell you everything I’ve been through. It’s just another story of somebody trying to survive,’” Teitelbaum says.
If You Asked For A Picture is alive with a more vital nuance both sonically and thematically, gesturing towards a deeper autobiographical story that taps into something painfully universal without being too overt. Teitelbaum explains, “The first record feels really black-and-white to me. This record has more questions.”
In the studio, Teitelbaum found herself confident and at home like never before, trusting her instincts as she developed an almost telekinetic shorthand with producer Yves Rothman. The result is a record of astounding sonic range – including sky-scraping ballads and colossal hooks that soar over waves of distortion, mixing layered textures and harmonic flourishes, or making unexpected hairpin turns between them. Primary among her production touchstones were unexpected curveballs like Queens of the Stone Age’s Rated R and Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Californication. Teitelbaum reveled in appropriating those hyper-masculine aesthetics for her uncompromising examinations of young womanhood, playing with performances of gender in rock.
Blondshell’s self-titled 2023 debut unleashed a writing style that gets under your skin: songs that are as visceral and anthemic as pop music with all the specificity, self-examination, and nonchalant humour of the best indie rock — songs you want to let crash over you, even as their strength is too concrete to be washed away. The release garnered her critical acclaim and a devoted fanbase and she has since toured relentlessly, playing shows including major festivals and a tour with Liz Phair, on top of her own headline dates. In Summer 2024, she made appearances at high profile festivals.
In support of the album she performed on The Tonight Show and CBS Saturday and the album garnered countless year-end accolades. In 2024, Blondshell released the standalone single “Docket” featuring Bully, which landed on NPR, Rolling Stone, and Esquire’s top songs of the year, and she was featured on A24’s Everyone’s Getting Involved: A Tribute To Talking Heads Stop Making Sense, covering the band’s “Thank You For Sending Me An Angel”.
In the time since Blondshell, the image of Teitelbaum’s life has changed considerably. As the accolades accrued, she spent more time on the road than at home. This rootlessness naturally impacted Teitelbaum’s relationships with others and with herself. “When you travel a lot, you see different possibilities for who you can be,” Teitelbaum says. “So there were a lot more questions coming up. What do I want my life to look like? Maybe it’s just the nature of being two years older, but I’m more comfortable with nuance now, and I’m more comfortable with gray areas.” There’s an open-endedness to where If You Asked For A Picture lands: it’s a no-skips, triumphant sophomore record that captures the unresolved process of figuring out who you are, too wise to suggest that it has a definitive answer.
Camilla Di Chiara
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