Out of Moon’s soft rhythms and fluid melodic arrangements on “Fifteen” fit its sensitive tale of a girl coming of age and navigating family legacy. She seems to struggle with her own acting out as most teenagers tend to do in crucial moments of personal development between adolescence and adulthood trying to test the boundaries of one’s own life and working out a sense of self. She says to her father “I’m only fifteen, I’m trying out the dreams you gave me.” But he says she’s wonderful and wants to know what she’s doing because that’s what a concerned and benevolent parent does though she’s aware of how he behaved at the same age and tells him so. She also comes to terms with how she’s like her mother in various ways. In the animated music video we see set pieces of the story in a tropical location with turtles on the beach and it seems so peaceful if a touch melancholic just like the song in contrast perhaps to the family struggles depicted in the song’s narrative. One gets the sense that the song is written in retrospect and from a place of self-awareness and compassion for one’s younger self. The soulful vocals in a downtempo jazz style with expressive saxophone flourishes over the languid beats truly set a mood of reflection and personal reconciliation. Watch the video for “Fifteen” on Vimeo and follow Out of Moon at the links below.
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