JAY ALLEN

                                                               "Heart Ain't Gonna Break Itself" 

                                                                ONErpm

Though “Blank Stares” and his memorable run on The Voice may have initially placed him in the very bright spotlight, 2023 has been a monumental year of major steps ahead for country sensation Jay Allen with the release of several well-received songs including the tenderly heartfelt “No Prayer Like Mama’s,” a stunning cover of Three Doors Down “Here Without You,” and his drink raising, summertime smash “Jello Shot.”

Jay now delivers his next single, “Heart Ain’t Gonna Break Itself.”

The song, written by Thomas Archer, Michael Tyler Spragg, and Ben Stennis, leans crisply into both sides of who Jay Allen is as an all-around artist, pulling heavily from his modern country ideals while smashing into pieces of 90’s alternative rock.

Immediately focused on him needing to know more about the confident, though mysteriously dangerous woman who is presumably across the bar, the soft build through the opening verse allows Jay’s naturally raspy tones to encompass the grit of his voice as he begins dissecting the type of girl that she might be, musing that she looks like she could break up a band and noticing her don’t give a damn/good girl gone bad attitude that she carries.

Confessing his want to know more about her as the opening verse slides into the chorus, the tempo hit into the chunk of the guitars adds the rock kissed flavor to the mix as he pounds out the lyric:

“This heart ain’t gonna break itself

Needs help from a girl like you

Wanna know the kind of crazy

We could get into

If you’re drinkin’ I’m buyin’

You wanna roll then we’re ridin’

Just put it on me, baby, give it hell

This heart ain’t gonna break itself, no”

The second verse sees smooth progression with him taking the leap to actually talk to her, flirtatiously painting the many different ways of how he sees things going between them, before then lamenting within his yearning, “I wanna feel what it’s like.”

By never really resolving whether they ended up leaving the bar together, the song holds the aura of her confident swagger, perhaps to the point that she merely smiled at his advances before turning him down and walking away. This pure craftiness in the songwriting adds an underlying empowered aspect that intriguingly helps separate it from the so many others that fall into the guy pining after girl category, to instead place the focus on the strong lady who is shielding the advances.

(Review Written By: Jeffrey Kurtis)

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