Annie Dressner – Dance We Do (2024)
I’ll be honest I’m already a fan of Annie Dressner and have been since hearing her last single ‘18 Years‘ towards the back end of last year. So when I found out she had new music on the way I was itching to hear it. Once again she has delivered with ‘Dance We Do’, a perfect exploration of that feeling where you throw everything into a relationship but it is never enough, yet we keep doing it because it’s just what we do.
Dressner encapsulates this feeling perfectly as the song progresses taking us from the hope at the beginning of a relationship, musing over everything she wants from her new partner, to the feelings being gaslit with the line “highlight in your redline that I’m the emotional one”. Until finally the realization that sometimes toxic relationships aren’t obvious, they trick you into playing the same games over and over whilst dancing around the issues; leading to the question of whether this is the right person, which is summed up by Dressner at the end of the last verse with the line “what are we gonna do?” Closing the story perfectly with that unsure feeling of whether the relationship has run its course.
The accompanying video shot by Perry Hastings accompanies ‘Dance We Do’ perfectly. A game of chess is the ultimate symbol of how you can spend so much time trying to outsmart your partner just to get the little wins in your relationship, rather than focusing on being stronger by working together.
In my opinion, 2024 will only get better for Dressner. Her last two singles have been brilliant and I have high hopes for her upcoming album I Thought It Would Be Easier due out 5th April. I’m only disappointed I won’t be able to catch her live on her upcoming tour, but I’m sure I’ll get a chance because, with music like this, I’m sure much more is coming from Annie Dressner.
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