By Charlie Maybee
South Florida based singer-songwriter, Brooke Sause is coming to terms with betrayal in her new single “BITTER”, which fizzes with disdain for some sorry boy who has clearly scorned her.
From the very beginning, she does not pull her punches in the slightest as she goes for the kill with each line cutting like a knife. “I really should have listened to my friends / Pretty boys like you always leave in the end” she sings in the opening lines, “A narcissist / Full of it”. She reassures us that she’s not bitter as the chorus kicks into overdrive with a stronger backbeat and a “no holds barred” approach to her vocals.
“Bitter is a song for when you finally can see through the sweet lies and false promises” Sause writes, “Inspired by 90’s-2000’s alt/pop but has a full orchestra bridge to fully capture the feelings of betrayal”.
“I just know that I’m right”, she sings in the chorus with a confident stance, “Leading me on just to spend another night”. This is clearly the words of someone who has reached the end of their rope. As the orchestral strings flow through the bridge to a more cinematic effect, there is a moment of tenderness before it is quickly abandoned for fury and fire. The bridge has officially been burned, and Sause uses this song to look back only once, if only to take in the full effect of the lessons learned, before letting go and moving on.
“BITTER” is available on major streaming platforms like Spotify and Apple Music. Find this and more on the Alchemical Records Multigenre Mixture playlist on Spotify.
Charlie Maybee is a dancer, musician, educator, and writer based in Charleston, South Carolina who currently teaches with the Dance Program at the College of Charleston. His primary work as an artist is with his performing collective, Polymath Performance Project, through which he makes interdisciplinary performance art that centers tap dance as the primary medium of expression and research. He also currently plays rhythm guitar for the Charleston-based punk band, Anergy, and releases music as a solo artist under the name Nox Eterna.
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