MARYNN TAYLOR - In My Head - Black River Entertainment

Since breaking through with “I Know A Girl” and “Every Single Summer,” MaRynn Taylor has continued to turn heads amid a healthy amount of buzz, expertly using 2023 to invite us further into her personality through a series of new songs that have defined who she is and the direction her next chapter is taking.

While “Make You Mine” and “Shakin’ In My Boots” both showcased the fun-loving, girl next door vibe that we’ve come to know from MaRynn, “01,” and now her latest effort “In My Head,” both display a transparent vulnerability that comes attached with navigating the tough growing up years of your early twenties.

Co-written by MaRynn with Kylie Sackley and Jerry Jacobs, the song infuses a modern country backbeat into its softer pacing, intriguing listeners as Taylor places the pure innocence of her voice over the breezy melody, pushing through the anxiety fueled lyric that digs into the deep truths to expose them for what they really are.

Admitting from the onset that she builds shields around herself to move through the day to day, she confesses that while from the outside looking in it may look like she’s got it all together, she’s only letting you see what she wants you to see; a topically prevalent issue that we’re all guilty of succumbing to on social media.

Lifting her voice into the punch of the chorus adds the proper drive to the walls down admission as the pump of rhythm showers over her while she reveals the real talk truth of who she is and what battles she’s dealing with, despite what you get to see:

“‘Cause living in my head

There ain’t no white picket fence

There’s dead flowers on the front steps

Cracks in the walls, echoes in the halls

Real talk…It’s a whole hot mess

Skeletons in the closet

Monsters underneath the bed

And the worst part of it is

I’m the one paying rent, yeah

Living in my head”

Gripping the fact in the second verse that while she wishes it was as easy as flipping a switch to fix everything, she maturely holds to the realness of the fact that “it’s gonna take more than some paint to cover the stains,” knowingly telling that she fully understands that life’s challenges don’t work that way. 

“In Your Head” is certainly MaRynn Taylor opening her diary and inviting us to peek inside the quiet struggles that we don’t know about and often don’t understand. However, this is also presents a call to action that speaks directly to the fact that we’re all dealing with something and so we ought to just be nice to everyone we cross paths with because you never know what they’re facing and how your kindness could help them through it. 

(Review Written By: Jeffrey Kurtis)

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