MADDIE LENHART - Sober - Independent Release

From her behind the scenes work with Song Suffragettes to performing on high profile songwriter rounds, Maddie Lenhart has become a strong, buzzed about name within the Nashville music community.

But she’s now sliding out from behind the curtain and into the bright spotlight, striking out on her own for the first time as an artist with her highly anticipated debut single, “Sober.”

She takes us into the heartbreak realization that what had her heart fluttering when she thought a moment was so special between her and the guy she’d been crushing on, was nothing more to him than a mistake influenced by a little too much to drink.

The soft pace of the song really allows Lenhart to showcase her amazing know-how and songwriting prowess, using her voice in perfect tonality to capture the vulnerable hurts within the heartbreaking emotions, admitting in the opening verse that she’d been waiting so long for him to lean in and make a move on her.

Running the scene over and over in her head as we all so often do when we’re hurting, she confesses that she knew it could hurt later, while innocently thinking that it was so much more than just the drinks fueling the moment; only to have him call her up a few days later and change the entire idea of what it actually was:

“He said hey…Sunday was a drunk mistake

No, it never should’ve happened that way

And if I could only kiss your lips, I’d take it all back

It makes more sense this way

Good to know we’re on the same page

And I held it all together ‘til we hung up the line

Cause I don’t have his heart, but he has mine

He was five drinks in when he came over

How do I tell him that I was sober.”

Poetically comparing their come together moment to that of a deleted scene from a movie, she laments through the second verse on how life isn’t like what we see on the big screen, going the natural way of overthinking and placing the blame on herself as she scolds that she should have known better.

The use of prominent steel guitar in the bridge gives his heartbreaker the perfect accompaniment that pulls ideals from the classic country sound to give the heartstring tug an even deeper pull when she adds the exclamation point to her debut single by expertly flipping the final chorus to being her response to him, white lying her way through agreeing that it was nothing more than a drunk, mean nothing kiss.

(Review Written By: Jeffrey Kurtis)

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