PAMELA HOPKINS

                                                                      ft. JASON LEE CAMPBELL

                                                               "One More Last Kiss" 

                                                                Independent Release

Pamela Hopkins has shown us a few different sides of what she brings to the table through each of her single releases in 2021.

Kicking off the year with her incredible duet with Matt Dame, “Little Things,” Hopkins first gave us a softer pace love song full of admiration for the better half that had you pulling close to your own as you held them under the neon lights for a Friday night slow dance. However, she then switched gears to a sassy, feisty side on the tempo driven “Givin’ A Damn (Don’t Go With My Outfit),” and moved into a catchy mid-tempo nostalgic kissed vibe on “Back Then.”

To bookend the start of the year, Hopkins now returns with Jason Lee Campbell on her new single “One More Last Kiss”; a softer paced duet that perfectly suits the emotion of the lyric that sings of the reluctant ending of a passionate love affair.

Mostly told through the female perspective as Hopkins steady’s the leads on the majority of the song, she confesses of the affair in the opening verse, “We both know we’re living a lie, but it feels so good even though it’s not right,” but she does it with such a disappointed longing wrapped into her voice that she immediately sets the tone of not wanting it to end.

However, the true power of the song comes when both Hopkins and Campbell bring their voices together. It’s in these moments that both perspectives blend as one and we see the mutual feelings that both parties are experiencing within the affair such as when they sing the very powerful line in the second verse, “When I hurt I turn to you,” which perfectly accentuates that they are both guilty of running to one another for an emotional lift in their time of need; a feeling that’s also reiterated when Hopkins sings in the bridge of not knowing where to turn when they end their affair through the desperate line, “We both lean on one another in moments just like this.”

I think in some ways we’ve all been put in situations that challenge us to not cross the line into this territory, whether it be with someone at work or with someone you’ve just met at a local watering hole who is attached to someone else. In “One More Last Kiss,” the two subjects have already crossed that line, but are now starting to feel the guilt welling up to the point that they know they need to call it off, but not before one last kiss; a dangerous request that tells me the affair could continue if they do in fact share another passionate kiss.

Pamela Hopkins has spent the better part of 2021 carving out her name amongst the country music scene, and “One More Last Kiss” is not only a great ending to an already very solid year, but with the emotional punch that this song packs within it, it’s also going to carry her steadily into the start of an exciting 2022.

(Review Written By: Jeffrey Kurtis)