Anna May Gets Personal With A Stripped-Down New Single
A beautiful new single from Anna May delivers a very heavy-handed honesty, portrayed with incredibly descriptive lyrics that paint a picture of a situation, and I feel like it's something that feels like it's out of a scene from a movie.
The way she gets into detail about feeling lost after being rejected by someone is really amazing, simply because she makes it so straightforward. Her lyrics are semi-lighthearted, simply because she can be so blunt. This is something I really loved, simply because it's an emotional, feeling-driven song. It definitely came from someplace authentic, a real-life situation that happened to her, but the way she throws in little elements like "Paid $200 to pay for an Uber so you can reject me" is borderline brilliant. She's totally humanizing the situation.
She's giving you those little nuances and details that make everything feel so real. The stuff behind the curtain. The stuff that no one wants you to see.
This is one of my favorite aspects of the track as a whole. Because it's so honest, and she is able to put lyrics in there that feel like you're sitting down and having a conversation with someone, the song has huge character, and I feel like that's what you end up getting attached to.
I think we need more songs that tell stories the way this one does. Yes, it's from a first-person perspective; she's telling you the story of what happened, but she's also telling you how she felt about it. She's letting you know how lost or broken she felt afterward, and how she wonders about where that person is now.
There are lines in the song that make it seem like this is something that happened a long time ago.
There are elements about it that are sort of out in the open. They leave it up to the imagination to fill in. You don't know the total outcome or how long ago it actually happened.
Instead, she's almost letting you fill in those little details on your own.
That is so cool.
Anyway, aside from how she lays those lyrics out brilliantly, this is a song that you can feel something from. Her vocals are very smooth, and she's able to hold out notes and give them these warm intonations that showcase some soul.
It's also very stripped down. It's pretty much just vocals and acoustic guitar.
It's just a single vocal track at that. It's not even packed with overdubbing or harmonies; it's just right there in front of you. Because of that sort of stripped-down and emotional backbone, the song puts you in the moment with it.
She puts you in those moments with her.
This is a key element as to why the song has the impact that it does. Yes, it's connective, relatable, and understandable, but it's all of those things because of the way that she depicts it and performs it.
This is definitely the soundtrack to a certain chapter in her life. However, to certain listeners, it feels very much like it could also be part of the soundtrack to a chapter in their lives as well.
It makes me wonder whether or not artists like Anna think about those aspects when they're writing songs like this. It makes me wonder if she realized the kind of relatability that someone can experience when listening to it, and how that could spark memories of their own coming back randomly.
Songs like this make you think of certain people when you listen to them. She's really nailed that aesthetic.
Also, because, once more, this song is kind of stripped down, it also feels like it was done live, in one shot.
This is also something that helps deliver the right kind of energy for a song like this one.
She definitely blends multiple sides of herself in the song, both lyrically and performance-wise.
Anna May is most certainly an artist who puts pieces of herself into her music, and this single serves as a damn-near-perfect example of exactly that.
The song is called "Crying At Erewhon," and for those of you who don't know, that is a pretty high-end grocery store well-known in areas like Los Angeles.
Now, the song does expand outward from there, talking about Hollywood dreams and being in LA, but I love the personal relationship attribute that she puts into the song and how that story unfolds into her lasting reaction afterward.
That is the thing that kind of hits the hardest.
The fact that you can think about things like that maybe years later and still have them affect you, or, if not, still wonder about those people, even if it doesn't hurt anymore.
The other aspect of it is how she sort of defines how situations like that can affect your view of yourself.
When you get rejected by someone, it can have a way of changing or altering how you think of yourself as a person. Those experiences can also have long-lasting effects if you let them.
So, she definitely dips into all these different aspects, but she does it in her own way.
Keep in mind, this is how I interpreted the song. Other people may take it in a little differently, but for me, the sentiment was right there.
I would definitely suggest listening to this track with headphones on so that you can really soak in the emotional side of things, along with all the lyrics and some of the beautiful, graceful performances throughout the song.
This is definitely one that sticks with you.
So, stop reading and start listening. See how this song affects you.
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