MOLLY LOVETTE

                                                                "Flower Girl'" 

                                                                Independent Release

There’s something so underhanded about giving a girl a bouquet of flowers as an apology when you’ve done something wrong, while it’s a totally different gesture if you give her flowers on a random Tuesday just because you’re thinking of her.

This is the exact juxtaposition of feelings that rising country starlet Molly Lovette sings about on her brand-new release, “Flower Girl.”

The song, co-written by Molly with Hayley Payne and Gracia Harrison, wraps into a softer pace that allows Lovette to utilize the know-how of her voice to perfectly match the emotional tilt within each scenario.

As the fiddle subtly cries through the backing instrumentation, she drops her natural drawl into a somber tone as she laments that “sorry’s real pretty when it comes wrapped in a bouquet,” before painstakingly gripping the reality that gestures like this don’t always make things good again, while very poetically admitting that all she sees when she looks at them now is “self-incrimination displayed in a vase.”

However, her emotions shift in the chorus as the instrumentation slides into a waltz that has you tenderly swaying in first dance fashion with your better half as Molly moves her voice into elation over finding the “right one,” who she excitedly tells has her now… 

“Crazy for daisies

Thinking that maybe they could be just because

You showed me I shouldn’t settle

I’m done pickin’ petals, he loved me not

Roses are red, violets are blue

I was never a flower girl ‘til I met you”

Continuing to hold tight to her quickly changing feelings on love, she confesses in the second verse that stupid love letters ain’t so cliché anymore, that Valentine’s isn’t just another day, and that PDA might not be such a bad thing, before heightening the strike with one simple line switch in the final chorus to showcase the end result that a great relationship can have, craftily singing on the final two lines of the song:

“Now my dress is white, borrowed something blue

never needed a flower girl but now I do”

Since releasing “Birthday Hangover” last fall, Molly Lovette has really come into her own as a well-rounded artist and songwriter, walking her natural pop edge along an insatiably modern country style that’s seen her intriguingly pushing border lines into new territories to see how far she can stretch them.

Something she absolutely did earlier this year with sultry sass of “Better Than You,” and that she now intriguingly continues to do with “Flower Girl,”  peeling back another exciting layer of her current direction by delivering a song that needs to be added to your wedding playlist. 

(Review Written By: Jeffrey Kurtis) 

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