Flowers” out April 10Th

Leena Regan’s new single “Flowers” out April 10th Click here for an exclusive preview of the track. Click here for press photos. Flowers is the fourth release off of Leena Regan’s The Melancholy Mind Project and highlights the apathy felt towards ever finding love. “I was in this period of time in my life when I assumed that nobody would ever truly love me, to the point where I thought love didn’t even exist. I began to seek out casual, distant flings to make sure I didn’t get my hopes up just to be let down, and I found a lot of comfort within those confines. I told myself that I had big ambitions and no room for distractions, so I wasn’t about to invest in anyone who wasn’t willing to break down my barricades and fight to love me whole-heartedly. If I didn’t feel that fire from someone, I LEENA REGAN had no interest and would ghost if I felt that there was any pressure for me to waste my GENRE: precious time.” Alt Pop Flowers was free-styled by Leena at the keyboard as a confessional to LABEL: her style of “dating.” Independent “The song Flowers poured out of me as a response to a text message I received from an extremely casual fling, passively expressing that he was maybe starting to catch feelings SOCIAL: after nearly a year of hanging out once every couple of months. One precise and dramatic @LeenaRegan eye roll later, I slung myself over to my keyboard, started playing this melancholy little chord progression, and just sang whatever words and melody flowed out, which is exactly WEBSITE: what you hear on the final track. I then put it in my back pocket, and the next time I passed through Chicago, I brought it to my friend and long-time collaborator Matt Dougherty to www.leenaregan.com record and start producing out. The dude might just have some telepathic tendencies, ‘coz he breathed the perfect kind of life into the song and really helped to bring it to the place I CITY: pictured it in my mind when it was just me and the keyboard.” Los Angeles Leena’s influence from late-90’s female singer songwriters such as Paula RELATED ARTISTS: Cole, Fiona Apple, and Shawn Colvin is undeniable on this track. Sasha Sloan, Tove Lo, Maggie Lindemann Producer Matt Dougherty balanced the worlds of 90’s singer/songwriter grunge and modern indie pop beautifully, serving us a charged and raw foundation to Leena’s laid back melodies and conversational lyrics. THE MELANCHOLY MIND PROJECT In an age where highlight reels appear at flick of our fingertips, it’s easy to feel like everyone around us is living a perfect life. We see everyone “doing so well” that we have become unaccustomed to how to healthily navigate hardships, set-backs, and sadness. When things get real, we recede into ourselves under the impression that no one could possibly relate to, help, or understand us; snowballing feelings of shame and loneliness towards normal human experiences and emotions. The Melancholy Mind project is a 5-song journey of cracking that glass wall in our hands that we’ve begun to hide behind. It isn’t a highlight reel. In contrast, songwriter and artist Leena Regan highlights real emotions and seasons of life that don’t make the cut to the small screen in hopes to bring awareness to the reality that we are not alone in these “un-shareable moments” of life. MEET LEENA REGAN If you’re looking for an outlet through which to unplug and connect, look no further than the authentic nature of LA-based alternative pop artist Leena Regan. Through her down-to-earth lyrics and celestial vocals, Leena cracks the filters of social media highlight reels to highlight real emotions and seasons of life that don’t make the cut to the small screen. In exposing her socially “un- shareable” life stories through song, she has found a way to provide the counterculture to comparison for her listeners: connection. Leena’s musical prowess and comfort in the spotlight has been honed over a lifetime dedication to her craft. She began weekly private voice lessons in her hometown of Bettendorf, Iowa at the age of 9 and was winning regional and national competitions within the year. In high school, she was captivated by jazz vocals, music theory, a cappella, and musical theater, while simultaneously beginning to establish her career as a pop artist and songwriter during frequent extended trips to Los Angeles, California. When it came time for college, Leena committed herself to Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee, where she earned her Bachelor of Music with emphases in both vocal performance and music business. In 2014, Leena made the move to Los Angeles to immerse herself in the epicenter of pop music. She quickly made a name for herself and was selected as one of the 14 ASCAP Lester Sill Songwriters of the year. By 2018, Leena was sitting as an expert songwriting panelist at ASCAP Expo, and in that timeframe, independently released her first four singles, Reckless Love, As I Am, Standby, and Y-O-U, which have now accumulated over 124,000 streams. Leena is now in the midst of a 5-song journey titled The Melancholy Mind Project. Its first three singles, Ghost Town, Haunting, and Surely Won’t Survive have garnered over 180,000 streams on Spotify alone and have been praised across the music blog scene as a pop gems (Wonky Sensitive) with harmoniously mellifluous vocals (A&R Factory) and well-written lyrics (Lefuturewave). Each song off of the project highlights a low-point in the songstress’s life to bring awareness to the actuality that no one is ever alone in their hardships, set-backs, and sadness– which can be hard to remember in the sea of distorted clips of “reality” that engulf our daily feeds. If you would like to connect with Leena, you can follow and engage with her across all social media platforms at the handle @LeenaRegan. To never miss a release, including her upcoming single Flowers (April 10th), be sure to also follow Leena on your preferred streaming platform..

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