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Michelle Branch get her “Fleetwood Mac” on in the new album Hopeless Romantic. Her most autobiographical record EVER, Hopeless Romantic, brings in mystical guitar, piano, and drum compositions to back Branch’s vocal vulnerability. This album plays to the heartbreaks and moments of resilience Branch has had to undergo as a person who wants love, like everybody else.
Michelle Branch – Hopeless Romantic

I am convinced to be an artist, you have to be a dreamer. To create something, even a relationship, you have to envision it, which is an act of both hope and vulnerability. How you make what is in your heart and mind, leap to reality takes strength and faith, which are the hardest virtues to gain. I mention this belief because, in many ways, it is this notion that magnifies Hopeless Romantic/ Michelle Branch as universal. The star has always been known for her ability to write tunes that are incredibly catchy and truthful to the ups and downs of being human: without any exchange.This may sound easy and natural, but Branch’s artistry is recognized because often, in music, we find a good beat is placed, in importance, over a good lyric. Hopeless Romantic not only honors Branch’s lyricism; it ups its potency and power like never before. Branch is honest and beautiful in this album, which is why it is her brightest and most melancholic album to date. Tracks like, “Heartbreak Now”, “Shadow”, and “Living Lie” already have Branch’s pain in their title. Each song leaps out for their infectious guitar melodies, but also their revelations to something seemingly obvious but also unthought of: Michelle Branch suffers.
Michelle Branch – Best You Ever

For however much we heard Amy Winehouse sing songs about her addictions or listen to The Weeknd’s struggles to stay away from cocaine, clubs, and catty women, we, as listeners, never really absorb the sadness, and even dangers, of their reality. We love the croons but do not fully realize they are coming from spiritual “crumbles”. Of course, Hopeless Romantic is simpler in issues and themes, but its melancholia stems from both the reality and details of Michelle’s heartache. We all have wanted asked “Carry Me Home”, fallen too hard for a guy’s “Bad Side”, and had to tell a love “You’re Good” as human being, which, again, makes Hopeless Romantic universal in its capturing of love, but also a realization that Michelle Branch is an artist because she is human. There are moments when she is so intimate with her heart, from “Best You Ever” to “The City”, that you want to call Branch, and say, “Hon, I know what you feel, meet me for margaritas at 8”. Branch becomes you or your friend that swears she is not singing a love song (“Not A Love Song”) or playing into the self-destruction of a relationship (“Knock Yourself Out” ), but is doing exactly that. Thus, Hopeless Romantic gains its truthfulness because it was written and plays like a moment when a woman decides to get clear about her heart and who she has given it to, in hopes, that, in her future, she gives it to someone better. AMEN! Moreover, its arrangements are sunny and, definitely, Stevie Nicks inspired. I am a HUGE Fleetwood Mac Fan, and Hopeless Romantic captures the magical “folkism” of this legend at making the reality of love feel like a fairytale that can have both sad and happy endings. For More Information On Michelle Branch And To Buy Hopeless Romantic On April 7 Click Here.