ALANA SPRINGSTEEN

                                                              "chameleon" 

                                                              Columbia Records/Sony Nashville

Alana Springsteen is absolutely the artist on the rise that you need to be keeping an eye on, and wow! if she isn’t proving why throughout 2023. With an uber ambitious project releasing over three-parts, the second, aptly dubbed TWENTY SOMETHING – Figuring It Out, is officially set to impact this summer.

After first teasing this new collection with the release of its title track last month, Springsteen now delivers the next look at it with “chameleon.” 

The song, co-written by Alana with Sasha Alex Sloan and King Henry, leans against a moody aura in its instrumentation and production to perfectly encapsulate the confessional tone of her delicate voice through each of the verses as she runs through a series of doing whatever it takes to fit in when you’re still trying to figure out exactly who you are.

“I don’t drink but if you pour me a shot, I’ll throw it back faster than you can say Mississippi” and “I don’t really go dancing a lot, but if you ask, I’ll turn it on as long as you’re with me,” she sings with a quietlike hush to her voice as she begins peeling back the complex layers of that stuck somewhere place between having to grow up and trying to hold tight to your youth.

Admitting that to fit in she’s good at being somebody new to the point that she’s a hypocrite to herself, she then lifts her voice to hit its higher strikes in the chorus, accenting specific words as she transparently shares that she blends into any situation you need her to blend into just like a chameleon.

But it’s during the second verse that she provides the very strong connection factor as she exposes hard truths that so many twenty something’s deal with when she shares that she’d rather lie to herself then be lonely, before revealing that she has self-made walls surrounding her when she tells how her best defense mechanism is never really letting someone get to know her.

By throwing her own diary wide open, the hottest rising star on the country music circuit today becomes just like everyone else within her core, twenty something demographic as she continues to connect with them heart to heart by fully embracing every facet of the struggles that one deals with while navigating the confusing steps of life and all the different emotional flurries that arrive within them.

(Review Written By: Jeffrey Kurtis)