The southern songstress Talon David puts her final touches on her first official single. “Paradise State of Mind”, a radiant burst of sonic sunshine and a total rejection of mental malaise, is a personal anthem against hazy hopelessness. Written, produced, arranged, mixed, and mastered entirely by Talon herself, the song feels both personal and universal. Penned during the slow days of the COVID era, while she worked behind a coffee bar at the Nashville airport, the singer songwriter longed to escape her routine craving travel, movement, and change. Unable to do any of those things, she wrote the song: a happy go lucky response to restlessness and a mental ticket out. Fast forward five years now living abroad and still dancing with that same restlessness she’s finally found the courage to release this ray of sunshine.
What grabs you first about “Paradise State of Mind” is the overall attitude. The song is as carefree as the toe-tapping rhythm suggests, but there’s also humor in the lyrics, strength in the delivery, and a dash of sass in the face of anxious feelings. Talon shaped a rich, full sound using a baritone ukulele for that tropical feel and crafted her signature layered background harmonies through triple and quadruple tracking techniques that create a lush, immersive atmosphere. “Paradise State of Mind” sounds like a much bigger production than one person could manage and that’s the magic of it. The track came together across six different home studios in both the United States and the United Kingdom, without any guest artists or external producers. This is one artist one vision brought to life with intention and heart. A personal anthem with universal appeal.
The truth is, “Paradise State of Mind” is a total mood. There’s an unassuming strength in its relaxed defiance of anxiety. The song doesn’t pretend to fix everything or offer easy answers. Instead, it simply invites you to smile anyway, to find a moment of peace in the chaos. Paradise, after all, lives in the little things: in the beats between our thoughts, in the songs we hum when we need to breathe a little easier. “Paradise State of Mind” manages to stay sunny without being cheesy, hopeful without being naive and in today’s world, that’s not only rare but deeply refreshing.
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