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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
David Renshaw, Ben Beaumont-Thomas and Laura Snapes

Add to playlist: the anxiety-ridden sugar rush of Tiffany Day and the week’s best new tracks

Tiffany Day wearing a large furry winter hat and cream sweater sits against a wall
Breakthrough and burnout … Tiffany Day. Photograph: Ally Wei

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Right now popstar breakthrough and burnout are a hair’s breadth from one another. Enter Tiffany Day, a Wichita-raised artist who first went viral in 2017 when a video of her singing Hallelujah on a school trip blew up online. She spent the subsequent years unsuccessfully chipping away at building on that virality, cycling through acoustic guitar covers and bedroom R&B. Only by channeling her frustrations into this year’s anxiety-ridden sugar rush Halo did Day finally regain her early momentum.

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