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Mary Middlefield Indulges in the Joys of a Casual Romance on “Summer Affair”

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Mary Middlefield looks like she’s frolicking at some kind of adult summer camp in the video for “Summer Affair” including a rope swing and a hedgerow pathway. The song and its luminous melody and lively energy is a full embrace of following wherever one’s impulses take one emotionally and spending time indulging hedonistic pursuits of all kinds with someone of choice and take those moments for what they are and not imbuing them with more significance than appropriate. Sometimes you end up in a short term relationship with someone for fun and then it stops being as fun and then as the song suggests maybe you’ve had a second thought about that person with whom you had some light fun and an enjoyable dalliance. Will it lead to more? Does it have to? Middlefield seems content to not have to have those questions answered after all not all relationships need to lead to a serious or forever situation and better off as something casual. Watch the video for “Summer Affair” on YouTube and follow Mary Middlefield at the links below.

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Mary Middlefield’s Live Video for “Heart’s Desire” Reveals the Dream Folk Song’s Dark Yet Joyful Catharsis

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Mary Middlefield’s live performance video for “Heart’s Desire” lends a more grounded and human face to its dark story of a young woman and her interactions with an older man who abuses his position of relative authority. The intricate guitar work and orchestral arrangements and Middlefield’s vulnerable vocals for most of the song gives it a quality that one might expect out of a sort of indie folk inflected dream pop song but the lyrics reveal a lot about a warped interpersonal dynamic that doesn’t lead to healthy places. In the video Middlefield looks like she’s re-living some of these harrowing experiences without being explicit in the sordid details. It’s a conventionally beautiful song in its arrangements and lively rhythms and flow of melody. But there’s a surprise for everyone that watches to the end because the lyrics end in a different way than the studio version that’s readily available and Middlefield sings in the end, screaming with her entire being and arching backward with the force of emotion, “You grow old and I’ll watch you die” and repeating the line. But it’s not dark so much as cathartic for everyone who has been in a situation like the kind she outlines in the song and for far too many young women it isn’t uncommon. Watch the video for “Heart’s Desire” on YouTube and follow the Swedish singer-songwriter at the links below.

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Mary Middlefield’s Indie Orchestral Single “Sexless” Spells Out a Situation Everyone Gets Into When They Have Standards

Mary Middlefield articulates in “Sexless” a certain kind of desperation and frustration that many people can relate to at some point in their lives or for entirely too long a stretches of time. The song’s orchestral sounds and upbeat energy are a wonderful contrast to lyrics that in another context might be considered pathetic. But in Middlefield’s words we hear about how she’s not without options just none that seem appealing and she expresses how she finds even self-pleasure unsatisfying. She sings about how when she was a little younger she had that network of friends that meant she could find someone to pair off with for fun and companionship but that maybe her temperament as an artist or as a human being with regular human needs that some might see as a burden has ensured her lonely status. And she wonders how this all happened leaving her thinking, “I’m sexless and I’m not loved.” Maybe a lot of people can’t relate to it and when you watch the music video directed by Imogen Harrison you may think oh right, how is Mary Middlefield suffering from this state of things. But it happens when you have standards and you’re not someone who can feel attracted that way to just anyone for whom you feel like you’re settling. Stranger things have happened and one can only hope this plight in the life of Middleton has resolved itself or will soon and for you as well if you also find yourself “Sexless.” Watch the music video on YouTube and follow indie singer-songwriter Mary Middlefield at the links below.