CAITLIN MAE

                                                                "Love Story Tragedy" 

                                                                Independent Release

Stacking her already stellar resume with very well-received single releases, “Fiona” and “Seasons Change,” UK songstress Caitlin Mae has continued to position herself this year as an emerging talent on the rise as she’s readying her next big shift with a move across the pond to Nashville.

Accompanying her bold move to Music City, Caitlin now releases “Love Story Tragedy.”

The piano driven instrumentation offers a brooding moodiness that sets this song on an intriguingly different step then what we’ve heard from her in the recent past, while still allowing her to stay strong in the signature breathiness embedded into her voice that snaps the lyrics into their proper emotion at all the right spots.

With a focus on heartbreak, she admits in the opening verse that while the old cliché that she’s citing doesn’t sound like the truth, “it’s me, it’s not you,” the dynamic shift she presents from here on out spells out exactly why it is in fact the truth as she faces her shattered mirror to look deep inside of her own wounds that have caused her walls to go up whenever someone gets too close.

Confessing pieces of her brokenness throughout the song, she transparently tells that she’s a little bruised and too scared to tell him, that she opened the door to let him in before her doubts overtook her, and that she’ll purposefully pick a fight just so she won’t get hurt first.

Sealing the deal of her own self-sabotage, she reveals the root of the problem when she shares the hurts she carries from everyone she’s ever loved moving on without every looking back while shrugging her shoulders to tell that she’s become so good at acting like everything’s okay that no one thinks she’s lonely.

While she uses the darker tone as a confessional booth throughout most of the song, she impressively finds an extremely unique counterbalance in the chorus, showing off her incredible songwriting vision when she provides a clap along rhythm while encouragingly praising him even though she’s broken his heart by comparing his goodness to that of a Sunday morning that let the light in.

In what is essentially an “I’m sorry” letter to his broken heart from the one that broke it, Caitlin Mae is at a maturity level well beyond her years by being able to admit her flaws and regrets. Not to mention her professional level of maturity, which has seen her using each new song as the next steppingstone to highlight her signature feels, elevate her best attributes to the forefront spotlight, and lay the next steps forward on a path paved with pieces of pop infused elements, UK singer-songwriter vibes, and modern kissed country.

(Review Written By: Jeffrey Kurtis)