{"id":1213,"date":"2013-04-11T02:11:47","date_gmt":"2013-04-11T02:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/?p=1213"},"modified":"2013-04-11T02:11:47","modified_gmt":"2013-04-11T02:11:47","slug":"she-him-i-couldve-been-your-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/1213\/she-him-i-couldve-been-your-girl\/","title":{"rendered":"She &#038; Him: I Could&#8217;ve Been Your Girl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F87137796&amp;color=000000&amp;auto_play=false&amp;show_artwork=false\" height=\"166\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1214\" alt=\"She and Him\" src=\"http:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/she-and-him.jpg\" width=\"285\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/she-and-him.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/she-and-him-300x239.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 285px) 100vw, 285px\" \/>She &amp; Him&#8217;s March glimpse at <em>Volume 3<\/em>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/2013\/03\/she-him-never-wanted-your-love\/\" target=\"_blank\"> &#8220;Never Wanted Your Love,&#8221;<\/a> boded very well for M. Ward and Zooey Deschanel&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/2013\/01\/she-him-volume-3-tracklist\/\" target=\"_blank\">forthcoming record<\/a>, and here they are with one more preview of the set. &#8220;I Could&#8217;ve Been Your Girl&#8221; shouldn&#8217;t come as a surprise to fans of their first two LPs &#8212; with its charming, Gold Star Studios-style backdrop against Deschanel&#8217;s unabashed affectations from the early &#8217;60s on lead vox. Notable among these cuts, however, is the bittersweet breakup element, in which what would be biting lyrics get filed down by the tune&#8217;s inherently upbeat vibe. In this one, for example, she grins through lines of <em>Blood On the Tracks<\/em> proportion: &#8220;It doesn&#8217;t matter, I&#8217;ll just be gone \/ And if you see me, just move on \/ &#8216;Cause we are free and never meant to be.&#8221; Ouch, but hey, let&#8217;s give a warm welcome to She &amp; Him with teeth above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She &amp; Him&#8217;s March glimpse at Volume 3,\u00a0 &#8220;Never Wanted Your Love,&#8221; boded very well for M. Ward and Zooey Deschanel&#8217;s forthcoming record, and here they are with one more preview of the set. &#8220;I Could&#8217;ve Been Your Girl&#8221; shouldn&#8217;t come as a surprise to fans of their first two LPs &#8212; with its charming, &#8230; <a title=\"She &#038; Him: I Could&#8217;ve Been Your Girl\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/1213\/she-him-i-couldve-been-your-girl\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1213"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1219,"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213\/revisions\/1219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}