Album Review: pronoun declares “I’ll show you stronger”
I remember hearing, one time, that pain is the birth pangs of strength. In essence, when anxiety strikes and self-doubt rises, you feel like who you are is being challenged. This is because who you are supposed to be is trying to be released and you are trying to cage him or her. In pronoun’s debut LP, i’ll show you stronger, she accepts sadness and madness as part of her being and, in turn, heals herself.
Literally every song, in this debut, feels like a hand hug for depression, and I love that. The idea that our darkness is not something we hold back and deny, but something we embrace and carry through our lightness, is amazing. In essence, it is like a suitcase of winter clothes you have to carry to your summer home. With this concept, tracks like, “sadie,” “as if,” “run,” and “wrong” embody all the times you have to calm your inner self down so that your outer self could shine. Yet, pronoun has a way of making her song feels hopeful about feeling hopeless.
From “stay” to “everybody knows,” pronoun’’s music totally gives me 80’s Melissa Etheridge, empowering vibes. She smokes and snakes her voice as if she is rattling through tumultuous fires; vocally treating insecurities as the slithering fiends they can be. Yet, she is only acknowledging her downs because she wants to get back up, which is why her arrangements hold a cool, 80’s optimism. Song such as, ‘some people” and “temporary tantrum” would have you hanging out with Say Anything’s John Cusack. Suddenly, all you have to do is blast your fave song through a boombox and the girl of your dreams looks at you. In an odd way, life can be as simple.
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i’ll show you stronger establishes that strength is tied to openness. From her relationships to her personal/ life goals, pronoun uses her record as a call to herself that it is time to be vulnerable so as to get your dreams. In does this, she also calls upon the listener with emotional common-ground. pronoun’s i’ll show you stronger comes out May 24. Click Here To Buy.
