FLETCHER: you ruined new york city for me
In a music scene heaped with variations of heartbreak stories, FLETCHER’s new offering on the subject is noteworthy and innovative. Her debut EP ‘you ruined new york city for me’ follows the aftermath of the impact of a distressing, heart-wrenching love.
At first glance, five-tracks may not seem enough to detail the intricacies of the poignancy of damaged love, however for the breakout pop singer prospers as she narrates her tackling with a breakup. “I wore my heart on my sleeve with this project”, says FLETCHER. For the singer, “It’s been important to show myself and others that it is okay to be both vulnerable and aggressive at the same time”.
The singer’s opening offering ‘If You’re Gonna Lie’ expresses the difficult and all-consuming tussle between sacrificing a love that is caught up in a cycle of lies, or remaining with an unfaithful partner, desperately wishing not to be alone. FLETCHER’s songwriting craftiness is witnessed as she sings, ‘“if you’re gonna lie, do it in my bed”. As she continues to sing, “I kinda like it when you hurt me, cause you come over saying sorry”, FLETCHER blurs the lines between what it means to be in love and what it means to crave love.
‘Undrunk’, a track accumulating more than 100 million streams worldwide describes the regrets of professing her love to a significant other whilst drunk. Minimal and unobtrusive sonics are a true declaration of FLETCHER’s numbness as she pleads to take back all of the events that ensued from her drunken actions.
In a succinct five songs, FLETCHER is able to contrast the blackness of heartbreak on ‘About You’ and ‘Strangers’ with the reflective ‘All Love’. “I take another shot, need the novocaine… but it’s all love”, sees FLETCHER approach the moment of being confronted with running into an ex. A cross-roads between defeat and releasing the past, the track shows just how flexible FLETCHER is.
A sentiment that FLETCHER stands by is that, “everyone remembers their first love, for better or for worse. I just decided to write about mine… in a very TMI kind of way”. The singers vocals harness the heaviness of heartbreak. FLETCHER’s lyricism strikes gold, with her voice propelling the messaging of the tracks to a new extreme. The layers of love FLETCHER explores unravel through her five-song offering, melded with aggression and maturity all come to the forefront beside her chilling, low-fi sonics.