MARYNN TAYLOR - Get To Know Me - Black River Entertainment

Though “Small Town Spinnin’” and “How It’s Gonna Go” have both highlighted MaRynn Taylor’s new EP with a sunshiny, feel-good flavor, over the past year and a half the country starlet has also continually revealed several vulnerable layers which have peeked into the depths of her diary.

With “Get To Know Me,” the title track of the EP, she offers what is her most vulnerable, most personal piece yet.

Carrying a softer pace, Taylor autobiographically travels through her redemption moment of freeing herself from a very tough heartbreak to move on from the chains that have trapped her for so long.

In what is an open letter written at the one who broke her, she unpacks all the different thoughts that have been rattling around her head into a string of words that become a poignant stamp of empowerment as she weaves the verses with a checklist of all the things that she’s changed about herself since he broke up with her; moved downtown, has new friends, overcame the internal doubts on her music dream to now boldly being out there and chasing after them, etc.

However, where many songs of this nature come from a spiteful type of look at me now aura, Taylor intriguingly births this one not from a “kiss this” space but rather from an emotion that struck her fractured heart after yet another toxic, check in phone call from him; the same type that used to set her back.

While guiding the second verse with descriptions of the pains she faced and dealt with in the direct aftermath of their split, she wears her this is me now garment into the lift of the chorus as she finds the courage to tell him that he doesn’t get to know the amazing woman she is today…and that was his choice:

“But you don’t get to…

Show up like it ain’t over

Come back and call it closure

The girl I was, you broke her

But that’s the old me

I picked up all the pieces

Found myself in the healing

I finally did it and now

You don’t get to know me”

MaRynn Taylor carries a lot of rightful pride within the tone of her voice as she holds her head up high within the fact that she’s finally let go of her past and found internal happiness with who she is today, providing strong encouragement through her own therapeutic healing journey that provides an understanding shoulder to let the broken hearted know that they’ll be okay on the other side of their current hurt.

(Review Written By: Jeffrey Kurtis)