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SweetCandy! heals wounds and opens hearts with soulful single “Last Note To Dad”
SweetCandy!’s “Last Note To Dad” is a piece of her soul, a letter she never had the opportunity to write as a child, and something of a therapy that took years to come out. A summer banger, the single contemplates the extremely personal experience of being raised without a father, leaving invisible scars that continue to exist in one’s inner child. SweetCandy! recounts that the song was born of the pain she kept to herself for much of her life.
Eventually, her father returned when she was older, and she granted forgiveness, but not before she confronted the little girl who had wanted nothing more than a dad’s love and company. “Last Note To Dad” is her way of giving that child a voice. The song projects the feeling of an open diary entry wrapped in melody. The rawness of SweetCandy!’s vocal delivery makes it evident that this is about the truth. Listeners are brought into a practically sacred moment, as if hearing a private conversation between a daughter and her absent father. What makes “Last Note to Dad” so powerful is its universality. The pain of absence, the difficulty of forgiving someone who has hurt you, and the bravery it takes to recognize your inner child.
It’s an acceptance of pain combined with the courage to go into battle. SweetCandy! achieves the delicate balance of vulnerability and empowerment, giving fans a healing storyline as well as herself. “Last Note To Dad” is as intimate as a journal entry and as ringing as a universal song of healing. “Last Note To Dad” is closure, it’s therapy, and it’s proof that music can say what words sometimes can’t. This release solidifies SweetCandy! becoming, in cricket vocabulary, not just a run scorer but also a guy who shares with others the damage he absorbs so that it’s not accumulated as baggage.
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Lisa Jo draws a line under the past with latest release “Done Druggin’ Away the Pain”
Lisa Jo’s “Done Druggin’ Away the Pain” is about the weariness of fighting a battle that seems to have been fought before. The song is about someone that has fought hard but is not able to break the chain and there is almost nothing left in the tank to keep fighting. That moment of exhaustion, knowing something has to change, that is what’s so emotional.
The song tells the story of that struggle, “Fought so hard but couldn’t break the chain. Then, the song reaches an even more open place, with someone “tired, warn down, dropped to the floor,” asking how long this way of living can go on. The experience does not hide the frustration or the tiredness.
Then the song’s signature decision, “I’m done drinkin’, I’m done druggin’ away the pain. That line is what makes “Done Druggin’ Away the Pain” feel like a turning point. Lisa Jo’s song is about coming to the place where the status quo is no longer an option. This is a blunt statement about pain, about fatigue, and about the choice not to use self-destructive ways to escape it anymore.
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Terry Borderline asks what happens when everything breaks on latest release “Glitch”
Terry Borderline‘s latest release, “Glitch,” is a thick G-House track built around Gasoline Monk, with forceful hip hop vocals and a punishing tech house bassline. It’s supposed to be dark and completely sample free. The production lends the track a straight-forward approach, marrying its hip-hop presence with its electronic weight. At its heart it asks a simple question, what happens when the systems around us start to fall apart.
The song pushes the concept of a glitch beyond a single piece of technology. It’s like, “What if the whole system just glitch?” then it takes that into the day-to-day of technology, with questions about an iPhone and if whole systems can fail. You don’t have to think too much about the message, that tension is what the song is built around.
“Glitch” is a bass-driven club banger with hard hitting vocals and a mash up of G-House and tech-house sounds. This is a dark electronic space, powered by the free sample production of Terry Borderline & Gasoline Monk. “It’s a song about pressure, disruption and the uncomfortable idea that all the systems we rely on may not always work as they should.
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