CHLOE COLLINS

                                                               "Somebody Else's" 

                                                               Independent Release

We first started hearing about Chloe Collins in 2015 through her song “Forget Your Name.” Since then, we’ve been able to witness Collins developing her sound, finding the uniqueness of her voice, and having an incredible growth spurt as an artist and songwriter.

2021 has been a really big year for Chloe thus far. She’s released several new songs – “Someone’s Yesterday,” “Not Like the Others,” “Friends Without Benefits,” and “Mind of Mine” – all which have showcased the many different sides of her style and range, while skillfully keeping all her catchy, signature feels intact to bind each of the songs differences together and deliver a purely Chloe Collins sound.

Her newest release, “Somebody Else’s,” continues to further enhance all the attributes that make her artistry unique while delivering a song full of heart-wrenching relationship regrets.

Triggered by a post on social media about her ex’s new better half, we’re sent into an anxiety fueled tale as Collins leans on her incredible voice to masterfully deliver both sorrow and bitterness as she sings of how only two months ago, that would’ve been her in that picture smiling.

She twists us through her own overthinking about the situation with very sharp details that outlines how rapidly she’s falling apart, such as when she sings of his new girl probably wearing his Augustana t-shirt at midnight while lying in his king size bed, her probably sitting shotgun in his jeep and rapping out a verse to the song on the radio, them probably making out on the couch in his basement while the television plays reruns, etc.

In juxtaposition to how she’s feeling emotionally, she then uses the second verse to look in the mirror and blame herself for letting him go, while in the bridge she experiences an extreme regret when comparing herself to his new girl by singing, “Bet that somebody else isn’t taking you for granted.”

By never actually giving us any of the specific reasons that she walked away, and by later in the song admitting that he was a good guy, you get the feeling that these lyrics dig much deeper than the surface and into the true regret that comes from putting up unnecessary walls that push someone away.

Chloe Collins has demonstrated with “Somebody Else’s” that she’s clearly found herself as an artist and knows exactly how to use her crisp songwriting prowess to bring you straight into the emotional bent of her lyrics while giving us an ultra-cool sound that combines her singer/songwriter vibe with a style that you’d be excited to hear on Top 40 radio.  

(Review Written By: Jeffrey Kurtis)