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Debbii Dawson’s New EP Where Have All The Good Men Gone? Lands 6/26 — Hear the Joyful Title Track
Debbii Dawson turns a bleak question into an ecstatic pop single. Her EP Where Have All The Good Men Gone? arrives 6/26 on RCA, led by a Joel Little co-write.
Debbii Dawson is turning a dour question into a dance-floor exclamation. Her new EP Where Have All The Good Men Gone? drops 6/26 on RCA, and its title track — co-written and recorded with Lorde collaborator Joel Little — is combustible, bright and nothing like the mournful sentiment the name suggests.
The Los Angeles-born pop hopeful has built a niche on maximal, ’80s-style aerobic pop that feels made for a neon-lit montage. She first blew up after an ABBA cover went viral on Americas Got Talent in 2022, and since then shes kept a steady output: the EP Learning in 2023, How To Be Human in 2024, and last years singles Gut Feelings and “I Want You.” The new single continues that streak, offering something immediate and propulsive.
The track pairs Dawsons crystalline upper register with a propulsive pulse that nods to contemporaries like Chappell Roans uptempo moments, but its hers — efficient, glossy and unabashedly pop. The song dresses a skeptical lyric in euphoric production, which makes the whole thing land as more rallying cry than defeatist shrug.
The video matches that energy: Dawson faces off with a nefarious supervillain and then launches into a triumphant keytar solo. Its a bit camp, a bit cathartic, and exactly the kind of theatrical moment that helps her songs stick.
“Every day, I watch the news and think, \”Wow, this is terrible.\” And every day seems worse than the day before. I find myself wondering if there are any good people left on this planet, why am I seeing supervillains everywhere I turn? I was binging Smallville at the time, wishing that Superman would swoop in and save the day. That’s the headspace I was in when I met up with Joel Little at his home in Los Angeles. I found a spiderweb in my car, but no spider, so I took an Uber to his house just to be safe. We wrote the song pretty quick because he had a flight to Middle Earth, also known as New Zealand, to catch. We bounced some production ideas back and forth over text but really dove in the next time we were together in person. A fun fact is that a large portion of the production for this song was done on the Korg RK-100S2 keytar, it’s so versatile and has been a staple in many of my recent projects. At the time, I had also just seen Toto and Men At Work in concert, and it left me walking on air. What an immensely talented group of people; they were definitely additional inspirations. I wanted to write about our grim reality in a non-emo way. I hope this song shakes listeners up a bit and causes action. Good people are hard to come by these days, but if we each try to be the good we’re so desperately looking for, we just might have a chance.”
Those little production anecdotes are telling: Dawson recorded at Littles Los Angeles setup, they traded ideas over text while he was off to New Zealand, and the Korg RK-100S2 keytar did heavy lifting on the track. She also points to recent shows— seeing Toto and Men At Work on tour— as a buoyant influence, which helps explain why the song chooses shimmer over sorrow.
Theres a clear through-line in Dawsons work: she takes widescreen, cinematic references and folds them into tight pop songs that feel immediate and performative. The title of Where Have All The Good Men Gone? asks a heavy question, but Dawsons answer is to make something people can move to. The EP lands 6/26 on RCA; check it out below.
