CHLOE COLLINS - 20 Nothing - Collins House Music

Since releasing the moody, piano-laced “Devil I Know” late last year, the always intriguingly talented Chloe Collins has pulled from every facet of her wide range of influences to blast us with the garage rock feel of “Do It For The Plot” and the darker toned movements of “Hard to Get.”

She now delivers her brand-new single, “20 Nothing,” a refreshing return to her incredible modern country sensibilities that twist perfectly into a building melody through the verses to allow Collins plenty of room to strike out of the predictable norms and inject her uniquely signature touches while keeping familiar enough sonically to be uber attractive to the casual listener.

Embracing her twenty-something age number to transparently take the listener into the confusing race of trying to figure out who you are as an adult while coming to realize that you’re still just as lost as you were as a teenager, Collins laments through the opening verse that although she’s meeting new faces, she’s no longer even recognizing her own.

Her tones perfectly encompass the emotions of the lyrics as she maturely faces her own mirror, talking as much to her peers about life as she is herself, adding emphasis to the anxious urgency with slightly upward tilts in her voice as she cries out in frustrated acceptance, “Don’t know what anything means, I don’t know what’s wrong with me.”

Floating into an airy melody that expertly matches this newfound acceptance, she glides into the ultra-relatable chorus:

“I’m just a quarter-life crisis

Living out of cardboard boxes

Barely doing laundry and taxes

Is this as good as it gets?

Twenty-something has never felt more like

twenty-nothing”

With typical type of advice being thrown at her in the second verse of how these are the “good years” and she should be going out to meet someone, she flips that notion on its side with a deeply inward look when she tells, “I hate strangers and bars are not that fun for a slightly cynical stay-at-home girl with social anxiety,” before then sliding into an optimistic turn in the bridge to stamp a mark of hope:

“Maybe when I’m 26

I’ll unpack the trauma and the suitcases

Realize that I only really need three friends

And I’ll get out of my head, I’ll get out of my apartment”

Mature beyond her years, Chloe Collins has consistently been a force within the music industry for several years. She’s created a uniquely signature sound that walks the gamut of genre lines around deeply retrospective lyrics full of unbridled emotions that continually strike the right chords with the right demographic. She’s absolutely done that again with “20 Nothing,” perfectly capturing the ups and downs of the in-between years of life as she turns us through the pages of her diary.

(Review Written By: Jeffrey Kurtis)

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