The jazz school dropout on her rise from professional Snapchatter to making claymation movies and country music
Allison Ponthier might only have one song in circulation, the high and lonesome Cowboy, but it already sounds like a modern classic. A Phoebe Bridgers-style confessional wrapped up in the country-pop polish of Kacey Musgraves, it tells the tale of this small-town Texan breaking free of her conservative bubble – Ponthier’s high school made 14-year-old students take abstinence pledges – in search of acceptance. “I was still in the closet, but felt like I wasn’t around people who did what I did, whether it was art or music or participating in queer culture,” explains Ponthier, who had long dreamed of moving to New York.
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