Caroline Strickland is a New York-based singer-songwriting who stopped us in our tracks with her single, “Coolest Girl on the Fifth Floor”, taken from her debut 3-song EP, Watch.
The accomplished track has all the hallmarks of impressive folk songwriting, with a soulful touch that elevates it from many others of the genre. Strickland wrote it about an experience with an evil neighbor while living in a SRO building in the East Village.
As she so deftly describes below:
This is a song I wrote about my evil neighbor. We lived in an SRO building in the East Village. It wa a weird little green structure built in 1920 that used to be a hospital, then a hotel, at one point an orphanage, and now it’s full of tiny rooms with tiny bathrooms for people who are willing to live tiny lives for a tiny amount of money. When I would practice guitar or sing in my fifth floor room in the tiny building, my neighbor would scream at me through the thin walls Once, she sang back to me, chanting, “This isn’t your personal opera house!!!” I said yes it is! The song was born.
If only she could hear her now!
Enjoy a listen to “Coolest Girl on the Fifth Floor” now below.
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