NAOMI JANE
~ MEASURE FOREVER ~
SINGLE EPK / AUGUST 28, 2026
"90 days in. Already dreaming forever."
A warm, witty modern-country love song about recognizing a lifetime before the calendar says you should.
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"Measure Forever"
Fourth release chapter from Kinda Sorta Country
Is Naomi Jane’s warm, witty modern-country love song about the dizzy first months of a relationship—when the calendar says it is too soon, but your heart is already imagining vows, a shared home, and forever.
Opening with “Lord knows it’s only been three months,” Naomi captures the thrilling and slightly irrational moment when new love begins to feel permanent. The song’s central question—“Can you measure forever in a matter of months?”—turns a deeply personal feeling into a universal romantic premise.
It is a song for anyone who knew too soon, dreamed too far ahead, made the Pinterest board before the proposal, or quietly tested out a new last name after the first date.
ABOUT THE SONG
“Measure Forever” balances openhearted romance with playful self-awareness. Naomi’s narrator is already planning vows and imagining a life together, but she is also confronting the everyday realities of sharing a bed with someone who snores and waiting for her best friend’s dog to approve of the relationship.
Those details keep the song grounded. Love is presented as romantic, funny, domestic, imperfect, and real.
The lyric moves from the first rush of attraction into a much bigger dream. The relationship may only be at “first base,” but Naomi is already imagining their “first place.” That wordplay becomes one of the song’s defining moments, capturing the emotional leap from a new relationship into a hoped-for future.
At the center of it all is one question:
Can you measure forever in a matter of months?
THE SOUND
“Measure Forever” blends modern-country storytelling with cinematic pop lift.
Pedal steel and dobro give the song its tender country glow, while organ, guitars, and bass create a rich, lived-in foundation beneath Naomi’s intimate vocal and hook-forward writing. The arrangement feels organic and musician-led, balancing roots warmth with contemporary country-pop clarity.
The production mirrors the emotional movement of the lyric. It begins from a close, diary-honest place and expands into a chorus that feels open, romantic, and widescreen.
The result is a modern-country love song that feels intimate in detail and expansive in emotion.
KEY LYRICS
“Lord knows it’s only been three months.”
“Only been 90 days, but who’s to count?”
“Can you measure forever in a matter of months?”
“Already made the Pinterest board.”
“It’s crazy how on the first day I was testing out my new last name.”
“I know we’re only at first base, but I can’t wait until we get our first place.”
“And you think you found the one.”
THE FOURTH CHAPTER OF KINDA SORTA COUNTRY
“Measure Forever” is the fourth song and release chapter from Naomi Jane’s debut LP, Kinda Sorta Country.
Each release from the project opens a different emotional lane:
“Pumpkin Eater” introduced the era with satire, freedom, and country-pop bite.
“Clementines” revealed its softer side through devotion and love in the little things.
“Farren Rd.” explored youth, place, first love, memory, and coming-of-age nostalgia.
“Measure Forever” moves the project into warm, present-tense country romance—the moment new love begins to look like a lifetime.
The full Kinda Sorta Country album arrives October 9, 2026, alongside “Passenger Princess,” an upbeat indie-country-pop road-trip anthem.
FOR FANS OF
“Measure Forever” sits between the warm country-pop clarity of Kacey Musgraves, the conversational romantic honesty of Megan Moroney and Avery Anna, the polished emotional accessibility of Kelsea Ballerini, and the witty, detail-rich country songwriting of Hailey Whitters.
Its dreamy country atmosphere also connects with listeners of Carter Faith and Ashley Cooke, while its intimate lyrical specificity reaches toward the singer-songwriter audiences of Lizzy McAlpine and Madi Diaz.
The song’s playful romantic narrative and vivid everyday details also recall the directness of Taylor Swift’s early-country and Lover-era songwriting.
Similar Artists: Kacey Musgraves, Megan Moroney, Kelsea Ballerini, Avery Anna, Hailey Whitters, Carter Faith, Ashley Cooke, Maddie & Tae, Taylor Swift, Lizzy McAlpine, and Madi Diaz.
NAOMI JANE
At A Glance
15M+ streams
18M+ official video views
29M+ social-media video views
170K+ monthly listeners across platforms
895+ playlist placements
26M Spotify playlist reach
Six official music videos with more than 1M views each
3x International Songwriting Competition winner and honoree
2nd Place in the Unsigned Only Music Competition
Teen Star USA Winner 2025
Administrative publishing deal with Wixen Music Publishing, signed at age 16
Full-service 2026 debut-album campaign across PR, DSP strategy, playlist pitching, paid media, Spotify Marquee, creator partnerships, and official-video activations
ABOUT NAOMI JANE
Naomi Jane is a cinematic cross-genre artist whose music blends alt-indie, pop, country storytelling, organic instrumentation, and diary-honest lyricism into a sound distinctly her own.
A classically trained three-octave mezzo-soprano and multi-instrumentalist, Naomi approaches music like film: intimate in detail, widescreen in emotional impact, and built around recurring characters, images, and emotional arcs. She does not release songs as isolated one-offs. She builds connected worlds, pairing her music with self-directed or closely guided visuals that make every release part of a larger story.
With more than 15 million streams, 18 million official video views, 29 million social-media video views, 170,000 monthly listeners across platforms, 895 playlist placements, and 26 million in Spotify playlist reach, Naomi enters the Kinda Sorta Country era with significant independent momentum.
Her official video catalog includes six videos with more than one million views each: “IDWK,” “I Cry,” “In the Moment,” “Lightning,” “Mr. Incognito,” and “Pumpkin Eater.”
Naomi is a three-time International Songwriting Competition winner and honoree. Her song “Little Miss” earned first place in the competition’s 2023 Teen category, and she has continued to build industry recognition through additional songwriting honors, a second-place finish in the Unsigned Only Music Competition, and an administrative publishing agreement with Wixen Music Publishing, signed when she was 16.
Born in Manhattan and raised between New York City and Southern California, Naomi now calls Santa Barbara home. She describes herself as a “bi-coastal American mutt,” shaped by New York grit and California openness.
Her musical foundation includes classical vocal training as well as guitar, piano, violin, saxophone, and ukulele. Her background in theater and screen includes productions of Newsies, Legally Blonde, Frozen, Singin’ in the Rain, and Assassins, along with appearances on PBS Kids, in the independent feature A Night with the Sheintops, and on New York stages including Feinstein’s/54 Below and The Green Room 42.
Naomi’s debut EP, sweet talk, arrived in December 2024 and traced the emotional arc of a relationship from infatuation to empowerment. In 2026, Kinda Sorta Country brings country storytelling, roots-informed instrumentation, Gen Z emotional language, and classic songwriter detail into her cinematic pop foundation.
Rather than reinventing herself, Naomi is refining the qualities that have defined her work from the beginning: honesty, humor, specificity, emotional range, memorable hooks, and a commitment to treating every song as part of a larger story.
KINDA SORTA COUNTRY
About the Album
Kinda Sorta Country is Naomi Jane’s nine-track debut album, arriving Friday, October 9, 2026.
The album brings country storytelling, organic roots instrumentation, indie vulnerability, theatrical flair, and hook-driven pop production into Naomi’s cinematic alt-pop world. Moving between grit and glitter, heartbreak and humor, tenderness and self-possession, Kinda Sorta Country captures Naomi at her most emotionally direct and creatively assured.
Rather than presenting its songs as disconnected singles, Naomi has built the album as a series of interconnected chapters. Each song opens a different emotional lane while contributing to one larger coming-of-age story about love, memory, identity, freedom, and finding the confidence to choose your own direction.
As Naomi explains:
“Kinda Sorta Country does not reinvent me. It clarifies me, louder, sharper, and fully in command of my own story.”
The album is country-informed without feeling traditionalist, pop-minded without losing its organic warmth, and intimate in its details while remaining cinematic in scale.
THE KEY PLAYERS
Kinda Sorta Country was produced and mixed by ASCAP award-winning songwriter-producer Adam Zelkind, who helped shape the album’s balance of modern pop precision, roots instrumentation, and emotionally focused storytelling.
The album brings Naomi together with collaborators whose work bridges Nashville songcraft, Americana credibility, and contemporary pop:
Naomi Jane — artist, songwriter, vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, and creative director
Adam Zelkind — producer, mixer, songwriter, and musician
Greg Leisz — pedal steel
Jimmy Mattingly — fiddle and mandolin
Joey Hyde — featured songwriter and guitar on “Clementines”
Glen Phillips — featured songwriting collaborator on “Passenger Princess”
Greg Holden — backing vocals on “Farren Rd.”
Theo Haber — banjo
Together, the album’s key players create a musician-led sonic world in which pedal steel, fiddle, mandolin, banjo, guitars, harmonies, and other organic textures naturally meet Naomi’s cinematic melodies and hook-forward pop writing.
KINDA SORTA COUNTRY TRACK LIST
- Passenger Princess
- Neapolitan
- Clementines
- Rotten to the Core
- Car Exhaust
- Narcissus
- Pumpkin Eater
- Farren Rd.
- Measure Forever
The nine-track sequence moves between euphoric road-trip energy, intimate love songs, satire, heartbreak, romantic optimism, and place-based coming-of-age storytelling - showcasing the widest emotional and sonic range of Naomi’s career to date.
ALBUM RELEASE AND “PASSENGER PRINCESS” VIDEO
“Passenger Princess” and the full Kinda Sorta Country album arrive Friday, October 9, 2026.
An upbeat indie-country-pop road-trip anthem, “Passenger Princess” serves as the final on-ramp into the complete album. The song brings the rollout home with movement, freedom, youthful energy, and the feeling of letting someone else take the wheel while you enjoy the ride.
The official “Passenger Princess” music video arrives Friday, October 30, 2026, extending the album campaign with a second major visual and promotional moment. The video will carry the album’s connected visual storytelling beyond release day, giving press, fans, curators, and social audiences a new entry point into the world of Kinda Sorta Country.