Living In My Head

H.E.R. “Can’t Help Me”

Gabi Wilson sings “Can’t Help Me” with a cautious tone, delivering lines addressed to a partner in a fracturing relationship with the knowledge that her feelings have to be filtered through careful diplomacy. The music, mostly just a thin line of melody plucked out on an acoustic guitar, feels just as gentle and careful. The song is technically sort of chill, but that’s just the surface – you don’t even need to listen too closely to feel the tension in the background of it all. This sort of song could easily be much angrier, or more defensive, or just flat-out mopey, but Wilson opts for a refreshing maturity. She’s obviously too full of love here to get petty.

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