ARI LEE’s newest single is like a jigsaw puzzle — not just metaphorically, but lyrically. Listeners will pick apart this song word by word and sound by sound, piecing together the narrative the indie alt-pop singer is so carefully crafting, all while feeling like a broken jigsaw puzzle herself.
Based in London, ARI LEE is a Chinese-Portuguese artist who has released countless songs over the past year, including her debut EP Trophy Wife In Training in September. “Someone For You” is the newest addition to her sonically- and visually-pleasing discography, one that intimately explores the pressures and complexities of getting someone to love you, even if that means changing everything about yourself.
“Someone For You” begins with a soft, echoing guitar that immediately sets the delicate vibe of the track. LEE’s vocals glide over the harmonious instrumental that perfectly aids her personal storytelling.
The use of camera metaphors really illustrates the singer’s story and pushes along the narrative, with LEE beautifully chanting how pictures of herself through her life could never portray how much she was breaking herself down and changing who she was for the aching potential of approval from loved ones.
“Go change pictures / I don’t think I fit in / Take it off the wall / And the flashes / I don’t think they capture / Every single moment / I tried to be someone for you,” ARI LEE sings in the chorus.
While LEE’s words feel like a pitying breakdown or cry for help, it also strongly emanates as an anthem of the singer standing up for herself and realizing the way loved ones have been treating her isn’t okay. “Someone For You” at its core balances the nuances of isolation and anxiety while helping listeners realize that these seemingly never-ending cycles can, in fact, be broken.
“Ripping parts of me away / Then you’d get it / Changing everything to stay / I’d regret it,” LEE sings directly to the person making her feel like a broken shell. This powerful moment is accompanied by those same soft guitars and smooth vocals that hug the entire track.
To anyone that has ever felt like an outsider, or just as if you’re standing outside your skin at all times, “Someone For You” is the perfect song to listen to. LEE’s combination of clever guitars, velvety vocals and such a raw yearning for approval perfectly and vividly capture that emotional feeling of breaking yourself down and picking yourself apart, like a puzzle, to get someone to love you.
While “Someone For You” is the newest song for ARI LEE, she is an artist in her early phases that has already seemed to perfectly tap into the right part of her mind to create such rich and emotionally-depth songs that some artists take years mastering. Her vocals are unique and addicting, making you feel in your heart every single syllable she sings.
Let ARI LEE be someone for you.
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