Song · King Princess
“1950” by King Princess
From the EP Make My Bed (2018)
“1950” by King Princess appears on 5 radio countdowns from 5 stations in 2018. It was first released in 2018 on the EP Make My Bed. Its best result is #34 on the Triple J Hottest 100 of 2018. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #60 alternative song of 2018.
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"1950" was King Princess's opening move, a 2018 debut single on Zelig Recordings that went on to lead off her first EP, Make My Bed. It's her tribute to Patricia Highsmith's 1952 novel The Price of Salt, and she built it largely by hand: she wrote it with Nick Long, played guitar, bass and synthesizer herself, and co-produced with Mike Malchicoff, who recorded the track and mixed it with Thomas Brenneck.
The credits say electropop, but it moves like a slow-burning torch song, a love letter routed through an old novel. Clare Gillen directed the video, which had passed 21 million YouTube views by mid-2023, and the song made it onto The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and Saturday Night Live in November 2019.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 74 | 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana | 91X Top 91 Songs of 2018 | 91 |
| 2018 | 44 | Exit 97.7 Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY | WEXT Top 97 of 2018 | 97 |
| 2018 | 66 | WRNR 103.1 Annapolis, MD | WRNR Top 103.1 Songs of 2018 | 104 |
| 2018 | 35 | X96 Salt Lake City, UT | X96 Top 50 Songs of 2018 | 50 |
| 2018 | 34 | Triple J Australia (national) | Triple J Hottest 100 of 2018 | 100 |
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