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                                                                  ALANA SPRINGSTEEN

                                                            "Me Myself and Why" 

                                                            Warehouse West Entertainment Records

 

 

 

 

Have you ever found yourself reopening the door to a relationship that you’ve already walked away from, only to find yourself hurting again as the guilt and confusion rises within your own choices? That’s exactly what Alana Springsteen explores on her new single “Me Myself and Why.”

Co-written by Springsteen with Josh Jenkins and Pete Good, the instrumentation and production intriguingly experiments with several melody shifts throughout the song which truly delivers a uniqueness that perks up your ears.

However, it’s the confusing emotional tilt that Springsteen delivers through her voice that will captivate the listener as she questions herself while facing the mirror, which adds a dynamic to the lyrics that elevates everything and pulls you into her relationship missteps while making you look inward at your own.

She immediately questions herself and places the blame inward by singing,

I don't know what I was thinking

If I was thinking at all

It was my car in your drive

It's my fault

This feeling is also something that she later digs much deeper into when she sings lines such as, “I'm on a regret rollercoaster ride and it ain't a good high” and “There's no one else to blame for the long night I'm in for when I close my eyes.”

However, it’s in the chorus that the regret consumes her as she first continues to deal with her internal struggle, before an anxiety riddled series of “why” questions push her overthinking into overdrive:

“Why didn't I just let go?”

“Why did I pick that phone up?”

“Why did I let you kiss me?”

“Why didn't I say hell no?”

“Why did I let you hold me tight?”

Where many songs of this nature tend to point the finger of blame at the other party, I absolutely love that this lyric really puts it all into perspective and places blame where it needs to be in these types of situations. Take that transparent honesty and push it into the fact that everyone has made these types of relationship missteps and experienced similar feelings, and the “Zero Trucks” singer has quite possibly just delivered her breakout hit.

(Review Written By: Jeffrey Kurtis)

 

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