Savanna Leigh expresses in vivid detail sentiments in “like i used to” that many of us have thought once we’ve aged sufficiently far into adulthood to have some perspective on life. With some shimmery, slightly gritty guitar rhythm guitar as accompaniment to build the mood of romantic nostalgia, Leigh’s voice is brimming with bittersweet reverie at reflecting on who she felt she has lost and the seemingly long ago memories of what it was like to be a girl and a teenager when you can look back and remember how free you were, how untrammeled by the experience of life and the compromises required of you as you enter the adult world, the unstructured time and lack of responsibility and relative lack of concern for the consequences of your actions because you feel like there can’t be too many when you’re following your youthful urges for adventure and exploration of your world, testing boundaries and breaking them. And it’s easy to romanticize one’s youth when you don’t have that level of freedom in your adult life and you don’t get up every day with the thrill of living coursing through your being and you can sing a line like “I guess I don’t love me like I used to” without too much irony as Leigh does in this song. But there’s a lot to not love about being a kid or a teen and your freedoms are different and your actual limitations less even if things are more complicated. But wouldn’t we all want to be able to live as an adult with a similar degree of carefree spirit and engagement at the relative newness of experiences and knowledge? Maybe in some future civilization that will all be possible for humans for their entire lives. But there is something somehow comforting and motivating about looking back as Leigh has in this song to make your current life as vital as the one you miss and to be the kind of person you want to be in spite of how uninspiring adulting can be. Watch the video for “like i used to” on YouTube and follow Savanna Leigh at the links below.
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