Dear Dea – Call Up My Phone (Single)

“Call Up My Phone” is the new single from Helsinki-based artist Dea Juris aka Dear Dea, taken from her upcoming EP “When You Go Home Again”, released via Boston-based independent label EveryDejaVu. “When You Go Home Again” is a cathartic journey through letting go, acceptance, and moving on, exploring what it is to call somewhere home. Having spent nearly a decade living in New York, in 2019 Dear Dea had her artist visa denied and was given six days to leave the country. She returned to Finland, to her childhood bedroom for the first time since she was 19. Devastated and heartbroken, unable to visit the city she loved and in turmoil over her now crumbling long-distance relationship, Dea found inspiration to write for the first time since before putting together her visa application.

Written around the same time as previous single “Coffee”, “Call Up My Phone” sees Dear Dea coming to terms with feeling comfortable about ending a relationship. “Sometimes it felt like we were holding on to the relationship just to prove some kind of a point”, she says speaking to the testing in-between stage following her return to Helsinki. “I was also missing New York so much and still hoping to move back. None of us knew how insane the pandemic would be and how long the restrictions would be in place”. Given the circumstances, Dear Dea found herself spending more time on her phone, waiting for the final goodbye, whilst simultaneously reflecting on the vivid memories of goodbyes throughout her life; as a child leaving family in Damascus and Quito; and as an adult leaving Helsinki for New York; and then New York for Helsinki.