{"id":54055,"date":"2025-05-03T18:38:06","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T21:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=54055"},"modified":"2025-05-03T18:38:06","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T21:38:06","slug":"nl-singer-cousins-releases-new-single-nora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=54055","title":{"rendered":"NL singer Cousins releases new single Nora"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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HALIFAX:<\/strong> Portugal Cove, NL, Newfoundland-based singer-songwriter Rachel Cousins releases her luminous new single \u201cNora,\u201d a heartfelt ode to the kind of friendship that sees you through your darkest self-doubt and brings you back to the light. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Co-written with Halifax-based artist Leanne Hoffman over Zoom, \u201cNora\u201d is a deeply personal, poetic offering rooted in gratitude and the kind of connection that transcends platitudes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Backed by a lush pop arrangement and Cousins\u2019 unmistakable vocals \u2014 crisp, yearning, and emotionally razor-sharp \u2014 \u201cNora\u201d paints the picture of someone we all know: a friend so radiant, she can\u2019t recognize her own worth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNora, I hate the way you talk about yourself,\u201d Cousins sings, with both anguish and hope in her voice. It\u2019s a song for anyone who\u2019s ever wanted to hold up a mirror to their best friend and say: Look how beautiful you are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Openly queer and endlessly expressive, Cousins continues to carve out a space where intimacy, identity, and artistry meet. \u201cNora\u201d follows her string of sync placements in hit series such as Hudson & Rex<\/em>, Workin\u2019 Moms<\/em>, and The Wedding Planners<\/em>, proving she\u2019s not just writing for the radio\u2014she\u2019s writing for the screen, the stage, and the soul. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can explore her growing list of sync credits here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNora\u201d is as much about Rachel as it is about her friends. \u201cI know that to my friends, I am often Nora in this scenario,\u201d she shares. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBut my friends are also Nora to me.\u201d The result is a song that radiates mutual care and emotional reciprocity\u2014a rare kind of self-awareness that makes \u201cNora\u201d feel not only personal, but universal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lyrically, it strikes a balance between conversational realism and lyrical flourish: \u201cSomeone else\u2019s perception \/ can feel like personal rejection,\u201d she sings, naming that all-too-familiar feeling of seeing ourselves through the wrong lens. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Cousins isn\u2019t one to wallow. She uplifts, she restores, and she reminds us of what\u2019s worth cherishing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At only 23, Rachel Cousins is already a seasoned voice in Canada\u2019s pop and singer-songwriter scenes. Her songs have topped local radio charts, made their way into national television, and earned her spots on stages across the country. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNora\u201d is the latest chapter in her evolution\u2014one that showcases her growing depth as both a vocalist and a lyricist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For fans of heartfelt, hook-filled pop with a purpose, \u201cNora\u201d is the reminder we didn\u2019t know we needed: to speak to ourselves the way we do to the people we love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[adrotate banner=”126″] [adrotate banner=”92″] HALIFAX: Portugal Cove, NL, Newfoundland-based singer-songwriter Rachel Cousins releases her luminous new single \u201cNora,\u201d a heartfelt ode to the kind of friendship that sees you through your darkest self-doubt and brings you back to the light. Co-written with Halifax-based artist Leanne Hoffman over Zoom, \u201cNora\u201d is a deeply personal, poetic offering […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54074,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[957],"tags":[50,121,297,48,4601,8275,8276,8277,7044],"class_list":["post-54055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-halifax","tag-hrm","tag-music","tag-n-s","tag-newfoundland","tag-nora","tag-portugal-cove","tag-rachel-cousins","tag-singer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/54074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}