The video treatment for Dax’s new single “Diary Of A Trying Man” deftly borrows the scene from the Forrest Gump as a visual reference point. And the song with its looped guitar and tasteful trap beat help to enhance a melancholic sense of loss. The song is the narrative of a man who is still haunted by memories of a love lost when meeting her at the wrong time in both of their lives. He talks about having moved on but his words speak to how he hasn’t let go of his feelings or perhaps more accurately his sense of who he was and is as tied to his ability to keep that relationship together with someone who wasn’t at the same place as him then. But when you listen further into the song it seems obvious also that the narrator hasn’t allowed himself to grow emotionally because he’s still stuck with the memory and idea of how things were supposed to be. Which is understandable when you grow up and have to move on in life, you look back and wonder how and why things went wrong with various things especially relationships that felt so vibrant and significant earlier in your life in a way that only new experiences fully can for most people. Yet move on you must and the song with its obvious sense of deep heartache at least expresses that pain and honors it instead of keeping it buried which itself is a way to process and open up your life to something better. Watch the video for “Diary of a Trying Man” including the humorous ending on YouTube and follow Canadian rapper/producer Dax at the links provided.
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