ARIELLE RAE

                                                               "Calling Him" 

                                                               Heart Songs Corporation

There’s no blueprint for a new artist to follow when they’re trying to make a name for themselves. However, listening to your fans is a real good place to start, and that’s exactly what Arielle Rae has done when it came to releasing her new single “Calling Him.”

The song, written by Arielle Markowicz, has been a part of Arielle Rae’s recent setlists and made a clear impact on the females at her concerts, leading her to wanting to take the message to a wider listening audience.

The lyric speaks right to the heart of the crazy rollercoaster of emotions experienced when falling for someone and chasing after them, only to be constantly let down.

Rae connects the butterfly, yet topsy-turvy feelings, that you get when your heart is falling, and your love interest has total control over you as she sings lines such as:

“He’s the one that can make me lose focus at a red light.”

“He’s the one who can get me looking pretty on a Friday night.”

But the true depth and the heart of the song’s message comes when she pulls us into the chorus and turns the vulnerability up a notch to vividly connect the heartbroken feelings of being let down again with a listening audience that’s experienced the same.

She states in the chorus that she’s called him everything from a no good who’s wasted her time, to a deadbeat, someone who doesn’t know what love is, etc. Only to then show us how we allow ourselves to stay in the vicious cycle when she regretfully states in the hook of the song, “When I think I’m over it and had enough, I find myself calling him up.”

With an irresistibly modern country kissed tilt on her voice, smashing together with pop sensibilities, this is a song that is built to knock on the door of the current top 40. However, whether radio picks this up or not remains to be seen, but just knowing that the song can (and does) connect with the listener and impact lives in a positive way by giving them the encouraging strength to break the chain of the toxic relationship that they may find themselves is, is what truly makes this song such an important release.

(Review Written By: Jeffrey Kurtis)

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