Kevin Bronson on January 21st, 2022

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Blondestandard is artistic moniker of singer-songwriter Caroline Grace Vein, an L.A. native and USC student who grew up immersed in the entertainment industry and today steps out with her debut single, “Blue Eyes.”

The song is a catchy, concise (it clocks in at 2 minutes 15 seconds) pop-rocker that Blondestandard posits as a slap at the “male gaze” in the music industry, long dominated by a culture of men who fail to take women’s art seriously. (Perhaps a topic for a longer song, or discussion, is artists who seem to service that gaze with, for instance, endless Instagram feeds of selfies.)

“Blue Eyes,” then, is her bout of catharsis. “I’ve been going to therapy my whole life,” the songwriter says, “but writing this song gave me real closure for the first time ever.”

The song, co-written with Liam Cauley and William Bolton, was produced by Justin Jay, Rob Nelsen (aka Inverness) and Bolton.

||| Stream: “Blue Eyes”