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July 15th, 2021 4:04pm

Tell Me Different


Snoh Aalegra featuring James Fauntleroy “On My Mind”

“On My Mind” gives off a vibe of opulent sadness, a glamorous misery befitting a gorgeous celebrity sulking around a luxurious estate under overcast skies. The music evokes an aspirational gloom but Snow Aalegra’s vocal is more down to earth in its deliberately understated phrasing. You can feel her restraint on the mic, and it carries over to her lyrics – she’s hung up on a relationship that has ended very badly, but doing everything she can to keep her resentment and jealousies at a low simmer. She’s indulging in the cinematic sadness of the music but the part she’s playing is that of a woman trying to hold it together and making an effort to control her feelings. The tension at the heart of the song is that she can’t quite get her brain to cooperate, she can’t stop thinking about this no matter how much she tells herself stuff like “never having closure is the reason I’m open.”

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