NU Review: Waiting Games
No More Waiting
With new music on the horizon we have chosen to utilize this weeks Artist Article on the currently unreleased track Waiting Games. This single will be dropping May 6th with an accompanied music video to kick off the official rollout of her forthcoming EP of the same name coming in June.
The first time I heard this power-pop anthem I became even more stoked for the rest of the unreleased music. The stomping kick drums mixed with the spacey, pitched vocal ad libs; strong, deep piano licks, with a mirrored melody structure from verse to verse had my foot tapping from 0:00 all the way till it smoothly fades out. Don’t let me try to convince you this will be stuck in your head cause we’re all different, but like… it will.
Behind the Games
As we we’re getting prepped for Trella’s Feature Week we caught up with her to get a little more inside knowledge on the record. Here’s what she had to say about the song:
“I wrote this song in LA last year with a friend Jordan Frye. This song is all about when I finally decided to leave my college town and move to Nashville to pursue music and get away from an ex boyfriend that had become incredibly toxic for me. It’s crazy that I have finally written a fun anthemic song about this eight years after it happened, but it just felt like the perfect timing. It was like a final layer of healing was released in the process of writing this. We had so much fun making this song happen…I let go so much in the studio that day and was not taking myself seriously at all. I remember laughing all day to the point that my stomach were sore.
A couple months later, I chose to film the music video in LA where the song was written. This day was so beautiful. We filmed in a suburb area of Silver lake, and then we drove out to Malibu during sunset to get some footage of me sprinting up and down Malibu hills. It’s a very simple concept, but I did that on purpose. I just wanted the tension of pretty clean cut suburbia, and the open road. The pent up energy, and the sprinting up hill to ditch town…..such a fun video to film. Excited for the release of both the song and video on May 6!! This is the first of two singles building up to my EP.” – Trella
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Rice’s Food For Thought
Songwriting Shines
It probably gets old cause I always have so much positive things to say when I do these Food For Thought segments. Well, I’m just a positive person for 1. For 2 the music we curate is top notch so the day we aren’t covering the best of the best, the Lebron’s & Serena’s of music, I guess just get used to praise. I love this song. The production. The songwriting. As a post-pro nerd, the mixing and mastering too!
On first listen this can song like a really catchy song that belongs on radio. That’s true. Upon a deeper listen to lyrics you can really hear her songwriting background shine through. Everything from mirroring syllables and melody’s in the verses while writing catchy, meaningful words that tell a story while simultaneously executing having the words and syllables hit parallel to the drums.
Power Line (not from A Goofy Movie)
There’s a line in particular that stood out to me was toward the end of the track. When I heard it the first time I, no lie, paused it. I rewinded the song. Proceeded to listen again. At 2:38 she says “You used me up, and now I’m throwing you away”. It’s a simple flip on the saying in a lot of relationship-gone-bad songs “you used me up and threw me away” that describes someone draining you dry then being done with you.
I find this line so powerful because in our society, people (especially men) have a stigma of being in a relationship, taking what they need, and then either bailing out. Emotionally or physically. I find this powerful because it speaks to the strength and resilience that someone (especially women) can have in a relationship like this. In this one line saying that someone used you up, but that you were the one that said bye to them. That you we’re the one who wasn’t going to stand for it. That you were the one that, even “used up” you didn’t need them to rely on anymore.
Empowerment
As someone who grew up in a single mother household for years as a kid, and then later seeing her in a relationship where it was all give from her end & very little take, I’m always a proponent for women empowerment, standing up for ones self, and knowing ones worth. I think this is a great song with a great message behind it. So thank you Trella for yet another amazing song & I can’t wait to hear more!
The EP Waiting Games will be releasing June 2020. You can listen to currently released singles from the EP Sidelines & Takin’ it Back on Spotify today. This title track Waiting Games will be available on all DSPs May 6th.
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Trella’s Feature Week
Monday we dropped her sandy Mag Cover. Yesterday we gave you the exclusive Red Couch Late Night Interview! Thursday we have our IG Mini Concert on our Instagram. Friday we wrap with our Class 14 with our last episode of Rapid & Random w/ Rice.
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