DAKOTA DANIELLE

                                                            "It's A Beginning" 

                                                             Independent Release

Since first bursting onto the scene in 2018 with her incredible debut single “One Church,’” Dakota Danielle has continued to emerge while defining her sound with each subsequent release; whether on the stripped-down, singer/songwriter style of “One Day Closer to You,” or on the more edgy, gritty country rocker “Backroads.”

However, with her new single “It’s A Beginning,” Dakota unravels another layer of who she is as an artist by refreshingly putting her modern kissed spin on the crisp influence of the 2000’s era country sound to deliver a song that leans on catchiness and a groove laden melody to punch you into lyrics that capture the “new beginning” feeling that every potential relationship will experience.

She immediately takes us straight into the bar/club where the two have just met, perfectly describing it as being a wild place with music so loud that it’s hard to hear, but she then very smartly moves the lyric away from the descriptions of the place itself and quickly into them talking to one another to set the entire tone of the song when she sings:

“you tell your story I tell mine back

Maybe we both fudge a little on the facts.”

She then uses the second verse to move their conversation further along to when they’ve reached the point in the night that neither of them wants to stop talking to one another or leave the bar even though their friends are, thus resulting in the chorus that solidifies her unafraid willingness to let it be what it will be and fly without wings so to speak to see where it all may go.

“If it’s lightning

I’m gonna let it strike

I ain’t afraid of flying

Cause I know what I like

Hey boy let’s take a shot

Sit down talk about who knows what

This could be love or a mistake waiting

Either way it’s a beginning.”

We’ve all been in situations like this in our own lives when we’re out on the town and start talking with someone new and it goes so well you never want it to end. Dakota Danielle captures that emotion in all the right ways, utilizing her twang laden vocals to add certain amounts of playfulness and free spiritedness to the lyric, helping enhance them that much more as she pulls the listener in and connects the song directly with their own personal stories.

(Review Written By: Jeffrey Kurtis)

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