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Vanessa Carlton

Data updated on 2025-09-17 16:35:50 UTC
"Always building up, falling apart. Love is an art," sings Vanessa Carlton on the title track of her sixth album, Love Is An Art. Like the record itself, the song is a meditation on the eternal seesaw that is human connection: the push, the pull, the balance, the bottoming out. It's that constantly evolving nature of love, expectations and compassion that Carlton analyzes from all angles on Love Is An Art, from romantic, to parental, to the friends that hold us up and the leaders that repeatedly let us down. And on tracks like the album's opener, "I Can't Stay the Same," that also includes the relationship with the person staring back at us in the mirror, each and every morning.

Produced by Dave Fridmann (MGMT, Flaming Lips), Love Is An Art finds Carlton reckoning with toxic relationships (the confessional "Miner's Canary"), eternal partnership ("Companion Star") and the children who fill the world with love and grace while politicians fill their pockets (the passionate "Die, Dinosaur," written after the shootings in Parkland, Florida). And true to Carlton’s skill as both a lyricist and an instrumentalist, the arrangements on Love Is An Art tell these tales as vibrantly as the words themselves: piano parts that speak of rage and tenderness, synths that burst and glow like dawn.

Genres

: lilith neo mellow piano rock pop rock post-teen pop

Total plays

1.4 billion
Updated on 2025-09-17

Country

United States

Social media links

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Monthly listeners

6,594,228

Followers

706,325

Top Cities

  1. Australia
    Sydney
    84,609 listeners
  2. Philippines
    Quezon City
    192,721 listeners
  3. Brazil
    São Paulo
    104,329 listeners
  4. Philippines
    Manila
    86,510 listeners
  5. United Kingdom
    London
    109,428 listeners

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