LEAH MARIE MASON

                                                               "Black Sheep" 

                                                                The 13th

With the release of her debut EP Honeydew & Hennessy earlier this year, Leah Marie Mason put on an incredible display of her abilities to slide through a blending of sonic styles while utilizing perfect tonality within her vocal to encompass vulnerabilities, homesickness, and 20-something navigation within the ever-changing world in which we live.  

She now returns with her first new music since the EP with “Black Sheep.”

The song, written by Leah with Jason Reeves and Fraser Churchill, continues to challenge genre borders as she blurs perfect balance between modern country and indie flavored pop while floating her voice atop the airy melody as she sends us through a lyric that explores trying to fit in by becoming who you’re not while trying to figure out who you are.

Running through a list of recognizable, high school social circles that she’s failed to fit in with, Mason tells through the opening verse of needing therapy after trying cheerleading, not blending in when she tried the choir, and feeling too pretentious while acting like one of the cool kids.

Lamenting then on her isolated fate, she poetically pops the chorus while embracing the fact that she doesn’t fit in anywhere, not even with the outcasts!

“So, I sailed off alone to an island of misfits in search of a home

In an outcast community shipwrecked my boat

when they said that they didn’t want me

I don’t even fit in with the black sheep”

She adds poignant depth to the anthem for the lonely when she punches into the second verse, and later the bridge, maturely facing her mirror to admit that she’s still just as lost and looking for purpose as she was when she was 18 while seemingly asking out loud to anyone who will listen without judgement, “is it only me searching aimlessly?”

With so many 20-something’s racing through each next complicated situation to hopefully find themselves on the other side of it, Leah Marie Mason arrives as a friend to let them know that they aren’t alone, offering an understanding shoulder to lean on while encapsulating the confused feelings that always show up in that awkward space between having to grow up while still being young.

By transparently sharing her own vulnerabilities and struggles, Mason strongly connects with her core demographic to open her next chapter, intriguingly walking with confidence within her risk-taking aura to push boundaries so that each melodic twist allows her to elevate the power of the lyrics.

(Review Written By: Jeffrey Kurtis)

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