PRISCILLA BLOCK

                                                              "Me Pt. 2" 

                                                              Mercury Nashville

While “Just About Over You” thrust Priscilla Block into the bright spotlight and set her career in fast motion, over her last few releases - “Off The Deep End” and “My Bar” - she’s positioned herself as the party going type of girl that’ll shut down the bar and hang with ya drink by drink.

However, underneath that upbeat, fun-loving surface, one deep dig into her debut album Welcome To The Block Party, and you’ll find her tenderhearted softer side through several songs that are so transparently real you can feel your own heart breaking as you listen to her pouring her emotions into them; “Like A Boy,” “I’ve Gotten Good,” etc.

This tug at your heart side of her catalog is exactly what she gives us on her newest song release, “Me Pt. 2.”

Having already been playing it during her fall headlining tour, performing it on stage at the Grand Ole Opry, and teasing its release across her social media platforms, the fan favorite has begun to resonate a buzz as the softer paced tune sees Block elevating her emotionally driven side to incredible new heights and really showcasing the depths of pain, confusion, and hurt that she can inject into her vocal to enhance very strong lyrics.

After running into an ex and his new girlfriend, who coincidently looks just like her as she describes through the opening verse, Block then ponders the questions of what he sees in his new better half (essentially, her part two) that he didn’t see in her, asking in frustration through in the chorus:

“Was there something more in her baby blues you didn’t see in mine?

Did she give you a little bit more in bed every night?”

This naturally anxious thought process continues encompassing a gamut of different feelings, from confusion to sadness, bitterness, and hurt, as she runs her self-torturing mind through the second verse, lamenting on what he’s probably doing with her right now including listening to his favorite sad country song while sitting in the front seat of the Chevy that she saw them in together.

Block has already proven that she’s one of country music’s most gifted new songwriters, aptly balancing between memorable party anthems and those more tender songs such as this one is, which sees her perfectly place her voice into the lyrical depth to grab hold of an immense struggle through a cry like tilt.

It will be very interesting to see how this does at radio for Block, releasing at a time when most everyone else will be amping things up as they gear their summertime anthems….though that could also be the exact factor that makes this one stick as it gives the broken hearted something strong to grasp onto while coming straight from someone who clearly understands the pain they are living with because she’s lived it to.

(Review Written By: Jeffrey Kurtis)