{"id":35144,"date":"2020-12-15T18:00:10","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T18:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/traklife.com\/featured\/brush-fire-single-review\/"},"modified":"2020-12-15T18:00:10","modified_gmt":"2020-12-15T18:00:10","slug":"brush-fire-single-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traklife.com\/culture\/brush-fire-single-review\/","title":{"rendered":"“Brush Fire” – Single Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column][vc_column_text]Gracie Abrams<\/a> is one of my favorite new artists; I\u2019m choosing to overlook the fact that she\u2019s J.J. Abrams\u2019 daughter, making her one of those entertainment industry nepotism kids that we all love to rag on. She\u2019s had a pretty good 2020, releasing her debut EP <\/span>minor<\/span><\/i><\/a> to favorable reviews and predictions that she\u2019ll be one of the next big things.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cBrush Fire\u201d is her first release since then, a perfect finale as 2020 draws to a close. The song details a relationship gone bad, with Abrams mournfully singing, \u201cThen we become a brush fire, burning all the pain \/\/ How can we survive a desert without rain?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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My favorite lines are about the beginning of the relationship, when everything seemed perfect: \u201cStarted as a simple lie, thinking love had chose us \/\/ We could talk into the night and nobody noticed \/\/ And I held on to every word, couldn\u2019t let you go and called it hope \/\/ Now I\u201dm so low, I can\u2019t ignore, we only ever made it worse.\u201d It\u2019s the perfect description of the realization that comes when you realize you were holding onto something that didn\u2019t really exist.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Along with the song\u2019s release, Abrams put out a video<\/a> of her performing the song live, along with co-writer Tobias Jesso, Jr. accompanying her on the keyboard. The two perform the song in an empty theater.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cI wanted this song to come out before the end of the year because it feels kind of like a bookend,\u201d Abrams said in a statement about the song. \u201cThere are new feelings and new sounds that come with the new music. \u2018Brush Fire\u2019 felt it needed to live closer to \u2018minor\u2019. Like neighbors.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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I\u2019m excited to see what 2021 has in store for Abrams!<\/span><\/p>\n

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