Song You Need to Know: Joanna Sternberg, ‘This Is Not Who I Want to Be’

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Song You Need to Know: Joanna Sternberg, ‘This Is Not Who I Want to Be’
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Why Joanna Sternberg's 'This Is Not Who I Want to Be' is a Song You Need to Know

“I’m stuck to the bed with brain zaps in my head,” singer-songwriter Joanna Sternberg intones on the opening track of their debut album,. Playing by themself on piano, “This Is Not Who I Want To Be” narrates a brutally difficult period in the 27 year-old singer’s life.

“That song is about when I was going through heroin withdrawal and I should’ve been in a hospital, but I did it in my room and I literally just wrote that song as it was happening to me,”is a gorgeous bedroom lo-fi rendering of mid-century blues, jazz, and pop that carves out a middle ground between Daniel Johnson and Randy Newman; the piano introduction to “Nothing Makes My Heart Sing” would’ve sounded at home on the latter’s 1972...

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