J. ANTONETTE

                                                                       MICHAEL PRICE

                                                                "Your Place Or Mine" 

                                                                 Native Manor, LLC

With the release of her latest single “Fix It,” and last year’s very well received “Alone,” “Heartbroken in a Honky Tonk,” and “Back Pocket,” J. Antonette has emerged onto the scene by walking a line between pop driven dynamics and modern country flare that has intriguingly defined who she is as a songwriter/artist.

She’s now teamed up with Michael Price for her first ever duet, “Your Place Or Mine.”

The soft pace that nestles into the modern infused melody allows the perfect amount of room for both incredible vocalists to inject the lyrics with proper, heartfelt emotions as the true duet continually pulls on the heartstring struggles of trying to move on from each other while staying stuck on what used to be.

Where Price laments in the opening verse that he thought he saw her dancing, Antonette then responds by admitting that she thought she saw his truck, before both voices meld together in the chorus to strike the natural questions that always arise in the neon lights:

“Are we too far gone after 2 AM both drunk standing under neon lights

Are we too far gone If you’re looking at me singing “Take Me Home Tonight”

It’s closing time, should we pick your place or mine?”

Where the first half of the song sees them asking the should they or shouldn’t they question, the second half acts as a pure confessional that speaks to the individual ways of how they can’t stop thinking about each other, with Michael transparently sharing “It always comes back around to you” while Antonette sings “whatever happened before, I don’t care anymore it’s you over and over again.”

By leaving their feelings completely unanswered as to whether or not they should actually recross the line, the twosome grip the back and forth emotion so well that it pulls the listener in and has them recounting their own gut punching stories of heartbreak.

Truth is, we’ve all been in this position before. It’s not a pleasant place to be as your heart often takes over your mind. And although this type of subject matter might not be something new to country music, Price and J. Antonette expertly weave the familiar in such a fresh, unique way that it absolutely engulfs the overwhelming feeling of trying to move on and the anxiety that fuels within that struggle.

(Review Written By: Jeffrey Kurtis)

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