ERIN KINSEY

                                                              "Reason For Leaving" 

                                                              RECORDS Nashville

Grand Ole Opry performances, high-profile tour slots, and ultra-catchy songs such as “Better On Me,” “Vegas,” and her pop punk infused country banger “Just Drive,” have all played pivotal roles in quickly moving Erin Kinsey’s status from new artist to watch to one who’s carrying the buzzworthy tag as she continues to emerge onto the country music scene in big ways!

She now returns with her brand-new song “Reason For Leaving.”

Showing a much more vulnerable side that we haven’t really heard from her since “Drunk Too,” Kinsey leans into a softer pace through the opening verse to embed an airy, almost sigh like tone into the lyrics that say I’m done, but don’t really want to be the one to say it and finalize this break-up.

Kinsey, facing an inevitably tough breakup that’s staring her in the face, paints pictures through the verses, and later in the bridge, of how everything has noticeably changed between them by spelling out his recent actions and negatively changing attitude toward her and life in general:

“Lately you’re acting like I’m someone you don’t know”

“You see the clouds in the sky, you find the dark in the light”

“Already got your mind made up, what are you waiting for?”

The fury of the chorus sees Kinsey injecting her signature pop country style into the song as she first reveals that she isn’t gonna be the one that gives him a reason to walk away so that he can blame her for it later, but then boldly, very knowingly states that perhaps he already has a reason of his own that he needs to own up to.

The rip it off like a band-aid approach of the song is relatable on so many levels for anyone who is currently in a relationship and watching the wedge between them and their better half growing larger with each passing moment, while they’re trying to save the heartbreak that’s going to come no matter how hard they try.

In many ways, though, “Reason For Leaving” also provides an okay to the better half to go on a call it off and break her heart, because it’s already breaking every day as they grow further apart from one another anyways, reasoning that she can’t start the healing process until the final nail is placed in the dead relationship coffin.

(Review Written By: Jeffrey Kurtis)

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