From Allen to New York, singer Allison Ponthier comes out big Rich Lopez | Staff Writerlopez@dallasvoice.com With just a few songs under her belt, Allison Pontheir is already making quite the splash in music.
NPR has conferred on her “It Girl” status, and the music magazine Dork described her as an “icon in waiting.” Today (Friday, Aug.
6), the Texas-reared singer-songwriter adds to her cool factor by dropping her debut EP, Faking My Own Death, that includes one song that Fader considered a “bright slice of queer country-pop.” But the thing is, Ponthier has never felt like she was all that. “I always felt like an underdog or an outsider, but not in a cool way,” she said by phone from New York. “It’s funny and unexpected.