So yesterday Jazmin Bean released a new song “It's not my fault (it's yours)” and let me tell you it's realllllly good go listen to it yourself! There’s so much I can spew about the lyrics but I really want to talk about the production and vocals first. I love that this song isn’t a definitive genre such as the rest of Jazmin’s music. It has different sounds and instruments during different sections of the song like a harp in the second verse and a brass sounding instrument that plays before the last post chorus (trumpet or trombone most likely) which is really bold and I gotta give kudos to Jessica Winter the producer! She did a great job! Now the Vocalist, Jazmin, HITS those high notes! I love how prominent the back vocals are in this usually back vocals are what they are in music, in the background. They do their job by accompanying the main vocals but you can barely hear them unless you're trying to. But this song isn’t afraid to have strong back vocals that work with the main vocals like a choir. Jazmin also doesn’t hold back with screaming. I don't wanna say it because it’s used SO much but it is RAW and gritty and it has so much passion. I don’t hear screaming like this in non metal/rock/intense songs. Jazmin Bean has so many juxtaposed themes in their work, it’s more obvious in their older stuff. Blood and guts mixed with glitter and sugar. This song still has this concept with these dreamy and grand vocals/instruments mixed with dreaded screams and lyrics. Man the lyrics say so much with so little. Messages like thinking your recovery is supposed to be a straight line which is what the line "Oh wait, I'm supposed to be healed and stuff, But some days it just eats me up” speaks to me because trauma doesn’t just disappear and you're cured from it. Trauma can sometimes come up either when it was triggered or it just came up, you can just get a memory that you’d rather forget and wish it didn’t happen out of nowhere. “Got loads of therapy and it turns out I’m still a bitch” hits so hard too because therapy is always framed as the answer to all your problems when it’s really just a tool or a guide. The feeling after being done with therapy(either for good or an end of many sessions) feels so strange it’s just over. You aren’t “fixed”, you're just therapized (which can feel different for each person.) But anyways I think that’s all I wanna state on this song (at least in this blog post).
BYEEEE