Su San – ifyoulovesomeone (2021)
Su San is searching for answers in her raw and melancholic single ‘ifyoulovesomeone’. Taking on unrequited love, she uses confrontational lyrics wrapped in haunting vocals that send shivers through you. With heartbreaking tones, powerful vocals and lyrics that lay everything bare, she will captivate your senses and tug at your heart.
Bringing her love of poetry to her music, Su San is working on both her next EP and her first poetry collection. With her English singles, she has shown her rebellious side only to dip into heart-wrenching sadness in her latest single. Both contemplative and confrontational, her music is a true reflection of life and human connections.
The sombre piano line that opens ‘ifyoulovesomeone’ has a haunting beauty to it. The piano line tumbles into a wash of tones before rising against the pressures of these tones. The melody is relatively minimalistic with the piano taking centre stage. However, there is a complex arrangement to the piano lines with more than one thread washing over another. Later in the track, there are higher tones that pull at you before some deep RnB beats pound in the depths of the music. This brings the emotions of the track to a peak but does so in the most astonishingly subtle manner.
Su San’s vocals are a delicate and breathy flutter over the piano notes. Her voice whispers to you at the start of the single as she draws out all your insecurities in love. This twirls to a chilly dance on the chorus that swirls around you like snow. Her voice gradually becomes more powerful as the single continues. As the lyrics draw on your pain, they have a confrontational vibe which is a little at odds with the delicacy of her vocal performance.
Su San covers you in raw emotions as you float to the melancholic piano line of ‘ifyoulovesomeone’. The minimalistic piano-driven melody offers a complex arrangement that bolsters the delicacy of the vocals. Su San’s vocals pull on your insecurities through the subtly confrontational lyrics.
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