{"id":5750,"date":"2012-04-25T01:30:48","date_gmt":"2012-04-25T08:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=5750"},"modified":"2012-04-25T01:30:48","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T08:30:48","slug":"risa-binder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2012\/04\/risa-binder\/","title":{"rendered":"RISA BINDER"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5751\" title=\"RISA-BINDER-M-Review-JanFeb2012\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/RISA-BINDER-M-Review-JanFeb2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/RISA-BINDER-M-Review-JanFeb2012.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/RISA-BINDER-M-Review-JanFeb2012-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>RISA BINDER<\/h1>\n<p><strong><em>Paper Heart<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>risabinder.com<\/p>\n<p>On \u201cYou Made It Rain,\u201d the song that opens her debut album, Risa Binder gets caught between cynicism and belief. As her crush leans in for a kiss, the skies open up\u2014and while she wants to live in a world where such things magically happen, she\u2019s suspicious. \u201cIt was so perfect, like the world was a movie set,\u201d the Maryland native sings, perhaps revealing a bit of where she\u2019s been. Before moving to Brooklyn, where she now lives, Binder studied songwriting with Nashville pros. Once in New York, she split her time doing open-mic gigs and auditioning for Broadway shows\u2014so she knows about theatricality, storytelling and what goes on behind the scenes. And yet on these 10 tunes, all of which she wrote or co-wrote, she reveals the real person behind the pretty face and radio-ready voice. Binder believes in serendipity and second chances, and on every track (except perhaps \u201cFeel Like Myself,\u201d her self-empowered Kelly Clarkson rock-out moment) she comes across as fresh-faced and innocent. <em>Paper Heart<\/em> is recommended for fans of Colbie Caillat\u2019s earworm pop, Taylor Swift\u2019s Top 40 twang and songs that, however expertly crafted, feel as spontaneously romantic as a kiss in the rain.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RISA BINDER Paper Heart risabinder.com On \u201cYou Made It Rain,\u201d the song that opens her debut album, Risa Binder gets caught between cynicism and belief. As her crush leans in for a kiss, the skies open up\u2014and while she wants to live in a world where such things magically happen, she\u2019s suspicious. \u201cIt was so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[196,10159,3185,3458,3457,3459],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5750"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5752,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5750\/revisions\/5752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}