KARLEY SCOTT COLLINS - Quit You - Sony Music Nashville

With opening dates this fall on the Carly Pearce’s world tour combining with the release of her very well received EP, Write One, which featured hot collaborations with Charles Kelley and Keith Urban alongside streaming sensation “Heavy Metal” and fan favorite “Marlboro Reds,” 2024 has already been a breakout year for edgy rising star Karley Scott Collins.

Now with her newest release, “Quit You,” a song a couple of years in the making, the singer-songwriter showcases the determination of her songwriting prowess for getting the phrasing absolutely right and finding the delivery within her vocal tugs to encompass the necessary expression within the transparency of the lyric.

Through an audible moodiness in the pull of the melody Collins expertly allows a veil to be placed atop the lyrics as the built-in honesty within her uniquely drawled vocal ebbs and flows the emotional trailed hardships and heartbreaks that come with seeing past someone’s demons to love them for the person that you know they are and not who you’re seeing only on the surface.

Painting the picture of her own stubborn personality through a look back at who her dad was and how she’s turned out just like him, while also spotlighting the depth of her better half’s troubled mind and aching heart, she tugs the heartstrings of turmoil relationships with lines in each of the verses; “And you drink so you can numb the pain, but I’m gonna love you anyway,” “And it might be a little hard to swallow, but sometimes you gotta see it through to the bottom of the bottle,” etc.

Upholding her determination and genuinely unconditional love in understanding his demons and seeing him for who he is, the bridge poignantly sings “I see your demons, baby I still see you, too” while she lands at the maturity of the chorus to play off the Biblical idea of John 8:7, “He that is without sin among you, let him cast the first stone at her”:

“You got a lot of bad habits

And yeah I guess that I do, too

‘Cause you’re probably never gonna quit your drinkin’

And I’ll probably never quit you”

Karley Scott Collins weaves in and out stylistically between what are the current norms while standing uniquely within her own distinguishable signatures, making her a singer-songwriter who keeps you on the edge of your seat and tucked within the notion that just as soon as you think you’ve got her figure out, she hits you with something interestingly different.

Having released “Quit You” just 2 months after her EP, Collins boldly highlights her next chapter while expertly heightening the anticipation of more new music still being on the way from one of country music’s most intriguing one’s to watch.

(Review Written By: Jeffrey Kurtis)