Kristian Phillip Valentino – Cold Hearted (2022)
Kristian Phillip Valentino gave us the fun pop song we needed to bring light and happiness to our senses with ‘Sunny Day Flower Girl’. Now, he is filling us with the emotions of a breakup and the courage it takes to leave in ‘Cold Hearted’. This is not your average breakup song, as he packed confusion, anger and frustration into the details of leaving a note and driving away.
A truly emotive single, Valentino brings all the feelings and emotions that swirl in your chest as you break up with someone and realise that this is the right thing to do. This track forms part of a greater story that makes up his upcoming album. The album takes a love story and moves it through four seasons, with this track being the winter when everything comes to an end.
‘Cold Hearted’ combines folk and soft rock guitars for the opening that draws you into the story of the track. There is a snowy feeling to the movement that reminds you of snowflakes drifting down around you. While the guitar line is rich in its intricate movements, there is a stripped-back feeling to the melody overall. This allows the emotions of the track to really shine and stab into your chest through the vocal performance. The wintery vibes of the track have been artfully crafted through the movement of the guitars. As the single progresses, the stab of pain in the vocals comes through in the pulse of the guitars.
As the snowflakes of the music drift down around you, Valentino’s performance drops you into the moment of leaving a relationship. There is an amazing use of the coldness of winter as a metaphor for the coldness felt as the relationship comes to an end. While there is a lot of pain woven into the performance, there is a sense of resilience and knowledge that what is happening is the right course of action. The lyrics bring a conversation between people to the single and swirl it into the emotions and thoughts of one person who knows ending things is the best option. The movement of the lyrics is powerful as you are filled with all the poignant emotions of a breakup, from the pain of leaving to the anger and frustration of everything being too much.
‘Cold Hearted’ swirls with the chill of a snowy winter’s day as Kristian Phillip Valentino brings the emotions of a breakup to life. The music is packed with wintery vibes that drift through your senses and leave the cold tinges of the related emotions. His vocals drop you into the story of the breakup and bring the whirlwind of emotions with them.
Find out more about Kristian Phillip Valentino on his website, Facebook, Instagram and Spotify.
