It’s really easy to let the momentum of your life carry you along to a place of stagnation and confusion disconnected from your self-conception and the life goals you had in place in your mind and then have that awareness snap into your mind like a flood of personal insight. That’s the head space Leah Dunn describes so well in her song “Wrong Place.” Musically it employs expansive melodies and evolving dynamics that switch up from direct to drifting to reflect the will to propel oneself out of your emotional stasis and taking the time out to consider the benchmarks one had in mind and the things you’d think you’d have accomplished by a certain point in your life set aside pursuing what? It’s easy to forget when you’re just living life and hanging out with people who don’t really have any goals except maybe to get into the cycle of getting altered for fun and maybe showing up on time to some job to fund an uninspired hedonistic lifestyle while pretending to go to school only to stumble into middle management because it’s easy to fail into comfortable mediocrity and never question what it is you really want out of life except for telling yourself it’s going on vacation once or twice a year so that you can tell your friends you’re cultured but behaved essentially the same as you do in everyday life while visiting some exotic place or simply another part of the country you’ve never traveled to prior. In this song with its Camper Van Beethoven-esque guitar jangle and deft dynamic shifts, Leah Dunn more than suggests she’s woken up to the life she remembers she wanted even if it has pitfalls along the way, even if it’s not perfect, but something with a sense of purpose and knowing one’s own value and to have actual values and not simply those that justify your lifestyle and keep you complacent. Throughout the song one gets the sense that Dunn or the subject of the song has been the one to be responsible for others too often but is now applying that skill set to benefit herself which is a refreshing change of cognitive orientation for a rock or pop song. And there’s no judgment in the lyrics, just a sudden realization that maybe it’s time to step out of the fool’s carousel and do something. Listen to “Wrong Place” on Spotify and follow Leah Dunn, who has been writing a song more or so once a month on her own way to her next album.
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