As the next single by artist Exzenya, “Intermittent Love” is a thick slice of soul-pop pie. This track looks at toxic relationships from a psychological perspective. It takes the intermittent effect of falling in and out of love and flips it on its head to make for one hell of a listen. Her voice is soft and vulnerable one minute, and the next, it can growl with raw emotion. Her lyrics recount a personal relationship with someone who creates confusion, instability, and fluctuation with their actions of control and manipulation. Lines such as, “Why would you do what you had done?” and “Is this what it’s like when it’s intermittent love?” resonate and draw you right to the nerve of emotional pain. The artist retells the story of someone you can’t seem to let go of because they give just enough of what you want to make it happen.
The production on this song is dark and gritty. Ambient background vocals enter and exit like a whisper in your ear or a woman’s siren in the distance. The high, piercing harmonies that Exzenya incorporates into the background have a dark and mystical quality to them. The harmony feels almost inhuman, in a way that is eerily ghostly. The instrumentals provide a slow, light groove that softly pounds on your ears. The song doesn’t fade out like most songs tend to do, though. Instead, it hangs on you and feels as if the instrumentals stop before the artist does. As your ear struggles to catch up with the vocals in this emotional rollercoaster, the breakdown makes you realize why you should have stopped listening the moment she finished the final verse. It’s that good. With vocals so thick in its raw emotion and imagery you can’t help but put yourself in her place and feel the effect of heartbreak, mental exhaustion, and lust. When you can take a personal anecdote about the life you live and give it to an audience, the soulfulness of it all is laid bare.
This combination of a personal story and background in psychology as a Licensed Mental Health Counselor provides a unique opportunity in storytelling. At 55, one’s experience with the emotional spectrum of the world around them is a commodity that most musicians have not yet had the experience to express. This relationship is a memory that so many of us could have pointed to in our personal life storybooks, if only we had the chance. The way that she speaks so candidly and openly about the back and forth of love and lust as though it was a daily occurrence for her and her partner. The way that she knows her patterns so well that as an audience, you sit back and think, “Damn, I do that too”. “Intermittent Love” is more than just a track — it’s a signature style of soul-pop balladry that you didn’t know you were missing from your playlist until now.
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