BELLA HUDSON - Love Thy Neighbor - Independent Release

Finding your path amongst the millions of intersecting roads within Nashville’s music community is a Herculean task that takes perseverance, extreme confidence, and the ability to continually craft your signature sound while branding innovative ways to hold familiarity and distinctive characteristics.

Singer-songwriter Bella Hudson has consistently written the definition of striding forward with each next song, creating the metaphoric blueprint for aspiring writers and artists to follow.

Though recently showing more of a tender side on “Cold In Colorado” and “Bettin’ On A Stetson,” her knack for making memorable impact with unbridled amounts of sass has quickly elevated her status with cataloged songs such as “Your Mom” and the kiss-off anthem, “Goodwill Hunting.”

She now wraps her irresistible wittiness into the small-town gossip of “Love Thy Neighbor.” 

Grasping the overall vibe through its bop-induced melody, the “I know that you know that I know” smirk carries the ebbs and flows of the catchy rhythm around plenty of slyness, sarcasm, and biblical/church references as she takes her cheating neighbor to task.

Inviting us into their one-on-one conversation, the proverbial knock on his door opens the song as she’s quick to the point when she lets him in on the fact that from her front porch across the street, she can see everything that he’s been doing with his other neighbor when his wife heads off to work.

With a stern warning of how she’ll rat him out if he doesn’t knock off his scandalous behavior, Hudson adds angsty flare to the caught you in your sin lyric, which makes the chorus pop that much stronger when she bends the listeners ear with a truly clever play on words:

“When He said love thy neighbor

It don’t mean sneaking round

Cause sooner or later

She’ll get to finding out

You’re a two-timing, lying

Don’t close the blinds

And took it too literally

When He said love thy neighbor

It don’t mean between

It don’t mean between the sheets”

“If I catch your man cheating, I’m gonna tell on him,” Hudson posted on her socials ahead of the song’s official release, and although there’s several bits of truth to that quip flowing throughout “Love Thy Neighbor,” it doesn’t first come without her giving you a chance for a full confession of your sins.

(Review Written By: Jeffrey Kurtis)