GRACE TYLER - Lose Me - Independent Release

With each of the two songs she’s released in the final quarter of 2024, country riser Grace Tyler has demanded high praise with her powerful vocal prowess and a transparent willingness to connect her personal healing journey with the listeners who are navigating their own path to redemption.

Following the empowerment of October’s “Weak Man,” Tyler now delivers her next anthem, “Lose Me.”

Peeling back the pages of her diary with reflective looks back on where/how things went so wrong, there’s a certain melancholy that flows the airiness of the opening verse, outlining the whispered edges of her voice as she maturely examines the toxic aspects of her former relationship; allowing him to win every fight they got in, always forgiving him for his missteps, etc.

With an audible confidence continually building, both instrumentally and vocally, the crescendo moment of the chorus hits that much stronger with conviction lacing her tone as she reclaims her self-worth, boldly moving out from behind the guise of what was and into what’s right now.

“So I let you lose

The best thing you ever had

I let you choose

To give up or get me back

I gotta do

The  thing that I don’t want to do

It ain’t me, baby it’s you

So I let you lose me

So I don’t have to lose me”

Poetically tallying through gritted teeth in the second half of the song of what she would have liked to see from him that she never received, she craftily switches perspective from inward to outward, writing an open letter that unapologetically challenges him to go and get the help he needs so that he can understand that while he may find someone new, the memories of the one that got away while always linger.

Country music’s modern era has seen a stretching of its boundaries like never before, moving through differing styles while incorporating several outside influences into a unique brand that an artist/songwriter calls their own. However, the genre at its very core has always been fundamentally about real life truths.

There’s something endearing about an artist who is willing to let down their walls, invite us into every emotional turn, and allow their story to provide a shoulder to lean. Grace Tyler has fully embodied those ideals with these past two songs, shifting into an essence of connectivity with the broken hearted through an empowering idea that it’s all going to be okay even if you don’t see how in this current moment.

(Review Written By: Jeffrey Kurtis)