By six, she was playing the guitar, listening to her sister’s pop-punk albums like Fall Out Boy. For Jordan, the music arrived in her life around five or six years old. But simultaneously, she aimed to separate any sense of obligation with the writing process not easy. She’d just come off of tour and needed space to decompress and, later, space to write. “Where more ballad-y songs maybe didn’t.”ĭuring the pandemic, Jordan largely stayed at her parents’ house. “I think even ‘Ben Franklin’ makes so much sense in the context of the record,” Jordan says.
As such, she ended up cutting a number of solid tracks because they didn’t fit the compact, power punch that the final album offers, as in the song, “Ben Franklin.” For Valentine, Jordan says she wanted to produce a coherent record (“That was major for me,” she says). That then helped to crystalize the new album. But finally, she says, she found a place of clarity. Earlier, she describes feeling a lack of motivation, feelings of exhaustion, not knowing what’s up or down. “Frankly,” she says, “I didn’t think I was going to finish it.”Īll of this should help when Jordan goes out on her next string of tour dates, which are many and include shows from November to May. She was able to put the final touches on the LP, which is compact, strong, and keen. She came out of the 45 days and felt invigorated for music again. She needed a chance to rediscover what her true motivations are, what her intuition is saying. Jordan says she was largely done with Valentine when she entered the facility but by going through the 45-day program, she came out with a clearer sense of things. I struggle with the concept of making myself vulnerable in that way, to give people a reason to critique me. Rehab just begs to be kept a secret, in its essence. “Rehab is an interesting topic for me,” Jordan says. But, she notes, it was an essential time. Rightfully, she doesn’t go into too much detail. One of the ways Jordan helped herself during this process was to check herself into a rehabilitation center. And while Jordan feels it now, many before and after her know it well too. But is it art? This is the conundrum of the publicly creative person. But down from the tree, the snake slithers and whispers in her ear: It’s pretty. When she’s finished, she steps back and admires it. In the Orson Wells film, F For Fake, the famed director tells a quick little story: Adam and Eve are in the Garden of Eden and Eve is drawing a picture in the dirt with a stick. And I feel very lucky in that now I have experience in the music industry and I get to reshape things.” “Before,” she says, “I was just a high school student. Which can make things feel, in an odd way, even more tenuous. As a younger person, her inclination was to give personal details away because there was nothing to lose. Jordan says she wants to reflect who she is in her music, but there are parts of herself she also knows she has to protect.
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“You have to always readjust to what is appropriate, how to act, and how you want to portray yourself.” “Getting it young is really weird,” she says.
And to do so as a teenager? Seemingly impossible. So, what life experiences should she draw from? Add to that the pressure of thousands of fans, record industry expectations, and it can be a load to bear. She’s been on the road for much of her adult life. Jordan says that as she grows, so must her music, her writing. Now I’m an adult, which is weird in itself.” “It’s super weird,” Jordan tells American Songwriter. And that road continues with Snail Mail’s forthcoming new “breakup” record, Valentine, which is out Friday (November 5). For Jordan, it’s part of the road of self-discovery and success. And despite their severity, she seems to be winning, pinning doubt on its shoulders, even if painstakingly so. These are some of the natural and important questions Jordan finds herself wrestling with these days. When good things happen to a person at an early age, it’s easy to wonder: well, how did that happen? And can I do it again? It can be the breeze upon which you fly even higher. Jordan, who is only now 22 years old, earned thousands of fans, prestigious media writeups, and big attention by the time she was a teenager. Which is an admittedly odd thing to say for someone who has achieved so much success before they’re legally allowed to drink in a bar. Lindsey Jordan, the frontwoman for the compelling rock band, Snail Mail, is trying to figure everything out.
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