LEXIE HAYDEN - High Enough - Independent Release

With over 3.5 million streams to her credit, and a songwriting Top 25 with Priscilla Block’s “My Bar,” Lexie Hayden’s forthcoming debut full-length, Counting Rainbows, is being met with industry anticipation and heightened intrigue through the guise of its promise to fluidly bend influence of multiple genres into a contemporary country smoothness that provides the snapshot of who she is.

Teaming up to duet with hitmaking songwriter Jason Nix for the second time in her career, following 2022’s “Breaking Up,” Hayden gives us a glimpse of things to come with the release of the focus track, “High Enough.”

Co-written by Hayden, Nix, Alex Kiel, and Andrea Dozzi, the catchy, float on the breeze melody expertly matches tone to the blissfulness of the head over heels lyrics as the back and forth between Lexie and Jason from verse to verse offers perspective from each side to add a fullness to the heart raced emotions.

Trailing a check list of the vices that she’s previously leaned into throughout the opening verse - smokes, alcohol, etc. -  Hayden sets the turn of the page juxtaposition as she cleverly guides away from the addiction of the temporary fixes to the grip the permanent satisfaction that he gives her heart and soul and the yearning want for more of it, “When it comes to you just give me everything proof.”

Likewise, Nix in the second verse chooses to focus on the unexplainable, can’t get enough of her rush that he’s felt ever since the very first time they touched, which still takes over every one of his senses whenever she’s around; “I’m seeing heaven got my head in the clouds,” “You come around and it gets harder to breathe.”

While the praise-filled side of their perspectives encapsulates the naturalness that comes with allowing your heart to fall, the redemptive choir like glide that flows the bridge late in the song becomes the audible eureka moment that ties their feelings together into a clear understanding of love’s addictive grip, accenting the chorus of wanting more, more, and more of that same good feeling:

“Every time we touch

You make me feel that rush

I just can’t get high enough

I want you in my veins

Until I can’t see straight

I just can’t get high enough”

With the anticipation continuing to build on the album release from one of Nashville’s most sought-after songwriters, Lexie Hayden uses the lure of the easy to connect with emotions in “High Enough” to position herself in front of eager listeners while moving into buzzworthy industry status that inches her closer to blurring the songwriter line into the tag of “artist to watch.”

(Review Written By: Jeffrey Kurtis)