Sara Sue Vallee – Baby Girl (2024)
Actress, filmmaker, producer and singer-songwriter, Sara Sue Vallee has a penchant for creativity through performing arts. Originally working in the dramatic arts, Vallee graduated from The Lee Strasberg Institute and The New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts before landing the role of Victoria Scott in the television series Dans ma Tete. From then, she built a name as a bilingual actress and filmmaker in Canada featuring in several productions including Beans (2019), Six Degrees (2021), The Art of More (2016) and The Robbery (2023), but we’re not here to speak about her dramatic endeavours, we take a gander at her emerging musical aspirations.
Following her well-received debut EP Skin & Bones in 2022, Vallee released her first single in two years, ‘Baby Girl’. Produced by Antoine Bensoussan with Time Buron (mixing) and Benjamin Caron (mastering), ‘Baby Girl’ is a dreamy swirl of music wrapping around you like a tangible blanket of kaleidoscopic lights. A haziness exists in the track, almost synth-like; however, a full band builds the melody with slices of guitar, drums and a keyboard floating through the song like a mournful silvery thread.
The melody is profound and filled with vulnerability, but the lyrics and Vallee’s vocals add a certain poignancy to ‘Baby Girl’. Bold yet demure, fragile yet confident, heartbreaking yet heartwarming and empowering, the single explores the need to let go of the past but also accept that this shaking-off will be difficult. Vallee explains:
“My single ‘Baby Girl’ uncovers a push-pull relationship with New York; a city that forged my identity as an artist after living and studying there for two years as a young adult. Now only a memory, flashbacks keep haunting me about a parallel future that never took place. At its core, the new single contemplates the idea of letting go as a way to stop living in the past…”
In addition to the single, Sara Sue Vallee released an official music video for ‘Baby Girl’. You can view the video below or on her YouTube channel. Please note that this video uses lighting effects that can trigger seizures in people with photosensitive epilepsy. Viewer discretion is advised.
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Find out more about Sara Sue Vallee on her official website, Facebook, Instagram and Spotify.
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