LIV MCNAIR

                                                              "Foolproof'" 

                                                              Independent Release

While there’s no definite blueprint for finding success in country music, the word that comes to mind when we are personally looking at artists to cover is ambition. An ambitious, go-getter attitude could be the catalyst to getting industry attention, but then it’s what’s being presented once you have it that will set the independent artist up to the next level as they forge their path.

We first heard Liv McNair as a featured artist on Adam Whitehead’s powerful single “Sober Up For You,” where the addition of her heartfelt vocals added a different perspective to the song that brought a new dynamic to it, making its impact reach even further toward connecting with the hearts of listeners.

McNair now returns with her first independent release, “Foolproof.”

There’s a saying around Nashville that a very well-crafted opening line will immediately grab people’s attention and keep them listening, and McNair absolutely delivers on that thought with the poetic, tone setting, “You change your mind like the leaves in the fall,” perfectly outlining the picture of the flip flopping, emotionally draining person who she’s been addicted to.

With a tilt in her voice that leans its softness into the lyric and fits snuggly alongside the mid-tempo waltz style of the melody, rather then pointing the finger only at him, she transparently, and very maturely, places blame on herself  for continuously going back to the toxic relationship that only keeps hurting her – fully admitting that she isn’t “foolproof.”

Singing lines such as “You always leave, I go running after you” and “You take what you want and you leave when you can,” McNair sets up the chorus where we see her remembering the outside advice she was given - and promptly ignored - which told her to not date him, while then facing hard truths she’s come understand in the second verse when she confesses that she’s now realized not everyone needs saving.

What makes “Foolproof” such a great introductory song for Liv McNair isn’t just the fact that its lyrics in many ways encourage someone in a toxic relationship to face the mirror, admit their mistakes, and ultimately break the chains of it, but it’s the very intriguing way that she displays pure know-how with her voice to breathe the necessary emotions into the lyric.

That element of truth that’s only born through real-life experiences shines through your speakers in a way that takes many other artists years to perfect, setting her a level higher right out of the gate than a lot of the other independents on the country music circuit.

(Review Written By: Jeffrey Kurtis)

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