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If you are familiar with Indie Music Center, you have noticed that we are not big fans of acoustic music, and we tend to prefer tracks that are intricately produced with lots of details and tons of stems. And yet, this time, there is just a voice, an acoustic guitar, harmonies, and… emotion.
A lot is conveyed through the vocal performance and the songwriting of this song, which we find truly incredible in every aspect. Alaina Margaret Droog has set the bar very high when it comes to songwriting. Some phrases are repeated later in the song, then modified as the timeline of events progresses.
So yes, it’s another breakup song. Yes, it’s hard to get over it once again. Yes, it’s another song you can listen to while feeling down, sitting on your bed at 3 a.m., but damn, it feels good! Because it doesn’t make you want to wallow in self-pity, but rather, on the contrary, to move on and sweep away all the memories with a flick of the wrist.
Connected to the current world, the song is grounded as it talks about our everyday tools, Instagram, Spotify, which make a breakup much more unbearable than it could have been two decades ago. The writing is therefore insightful, lucid, and deeply appropriate. Maybe keep the kids away, as there are a few swear words, but nothing too serious. On the contrary.
An artist who expresses all her feelings so honestly, with such irresistible falsetto and vocal harmonies, can only be forgiven for writing a few explicit lyrics. Thank you, miss, for your talent and audacity, we appreciate it!
Alaina Margaret Droog’s take on “Rabbit Hole”
When I wrote this song, I was living in Roanoke, VA at the time. It was autumn, and I was feeling very inspired by the constant bluegrass/country/folk styles I would hear, the seasons changing, and living in the mountains. One night I caught myself stalking my ex on Spotify, trying to decipher whether or not they moved on based on a Spotify playlist they made, and I thought “what the hell am I doing?” then I started to write. I thought about how the truth is like an echo, coming down from the mountains, it gets distorted the farther away the noise is, and it will never come close to what the original sound was. I played around with this concept in a couple of other scrap songs I wrote, until I finally landed on using the concept of “going down a rabbit hole” and it fit the theme, so that ultimately became the final product.
