“Half Sad” – Felicity
★★★★☆
Earlier today, Nashville-based artist Felicity released her latest single,
“Half Sad”. The alt-pop track with a nostalgic resonance is a perfect continuation of the singer’s prior work, yet this newest, catchy track feels tenfold more relatable.
A glazing sonic quality brings listeners into the low-fi, disoriented state alongside Felicity’s vocals. The melody itself captures an unknown space where nostalgia and numbness collide- where moments flow numbly free from time, and reflections blur with late nights and incomprehensible feelings of identity.
The singer shared, “I wrote this song with Asia Whiteacre, Johnny Gates, and Austin Luther, and it really set the tone for the upcoming music as a whole. The blend of string pads and synths alongside the live alt-pop production I know and love was an exciting discovery. After we wrote Half Sad, I wanted to get in my car, roll the windows down, and drive forever with it playing in the background.”
While this track is not a traditional entanglement of love, passion, and all lost, Felicity can capture a sort of “self breakup” through her lyrics. A lost sense of self with a reality that is too far to grasp, Felicity boldly carries her audience through a stage of grieving a lost sense of self. In the chorus, she sings, “Who’s that looking at me in the passenger seat / Eyes black and she kind of looks a little like me / Half sad full faded like her low rise jeans / Low fi dreams”. However softspoken the singer’s tonality might be, this chorus certainly packs a punch. Felicity’s impressive vocals are only heightened by her ability to capture the surrealism of feeling numb to time, space, and your very own reflection in the mirror.
Though detached from reality, the lyrics encapsulate the discontented nature of unspoken sadness that many fear to put into words. Felicity so bravely shares with her listeners truly what it means to be “Half Sad”.
Listen to “Half Sad” and all of Felicity’s incredible work here.
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