RoseColoredGirl Ranks and Reviews Every Em Beihold Song
Jul 21, 2023 6:44:30 GMT -5
Post by RoseColoredGirl on Jul 21, 2023 6:44:30 GMT -5
9. House on a Hill (with Eric Nam)
Album: Non-album single (2023)
Oof, the problem with doing these rankings as an ongoing thing as new songs come out is that I feel my rankings change. I'd already put "Nobody Else" a couple notches higher than I did, but oh well haha. I was very curious how this collaboration with Eric Nam would turn out, since her collab with Meduza a couple weeks ago sounded much more like Sam and Meduza's style than Em's, so I was curious if the same would happen here. I have to say I was pleasantly surprised that this was not the case, Em fits Eric's style really well here, and the message is something I know she personally resonates with as an artist. The song's message is super important - that sometimes, sitting there thinking your life would be so much better if you only had this one thing can be detrimental to your mental health. There are plenty of famous people that the common lower or middle-class person would consider to have literally everything in life, yet they still aren't satisfied. Eric and Em send a very important message with this song that sometimes having that one thing you always wanted isn't necessarily going to make you happy, especially when we live in a consumerist society that constantly pushes us to have more, more, more. The lyrics argue that sometimes, having everything you think you want won't make you happy; rather, you need to shift your perspective and realize you're never going to get the thing that you want, and try to be happy with what you have. I found this to be a very powerful and compelling message, and it's a philosophy that I already believed strongly in even before listening to the song. Production-wise, the sound is really catchy, and the guitar loop in the verses is very simple but effective. What I thought was really cool is that I feel the production is very reminiscent of Em's song as well, which is amazing, since typically collaborations like this don't always fit the style of the featured artist. Both Eric and Em sound really good here as well, and Em sounds much more like herself as compared to her previous collab, "Phone."
Album: Non-album single (2023)
Oof, the problem with doing these rankings as an ongoing thing as new songs come out is that I feel my rankings change. I'd already put "Nobody Else" a couple notches higher than I did, but oh well haha. I was very curious how this collaboration with Eric Nam would turn out, since her collab with Meduza a couple weeks ago sounded much more like Sam and Meduza's style than Em's, so I was curious if the same would happen here. I have to say I was pleasantly surprised that this was not the case, Em fits Eric's style really well here, and the message is something I know she personally resonates with as an artist. The song's message is super important - that sometimes, sitting there thinking your life would be so much better if you only had this one thing can be detrimental to your mental health. There are plenty of famous people that the common lower or middle-class person would consider to have literally everything in life, yet they still aren't satisfied. Eric and Em send a very important message with this song that sometimes having that one thing you always wanted isn't necessarily going to make you happy, especially when we live in a consumerist society that constantly pushes us to have more, more, more. The lyrics argue that sometimes, having everything you think you want won't make you happy; rather, you need to shift your perspective and realize you're never going to get the thing that you want, and try to be happy with what you have. I found this to be a very powerful and compelling message, and it's a philosophy that I already believed strongly in even before listening to the song. Production-wise, the sound is really catchy, and the guitar loop in the verses is very simple but effective. What I thought was really cool is that I feel the production is very reminiscent of Em's song as well, which is amazing, since typically collaborations like this don't always fit the style of the featured artist. Both Eric and Em sound really good here as well, and Em sounds much more like herself as compared to her previous collab, "Phone."