Tag: “Plan B” (Anna Walsh song)

Anna Walsh genre bends a bit in her single “Plan B” but that blend of Americana, pop and warmly rendered indie rock serves the song well. The lyrics tell a story many people know well or have been on either end of that interpersonal dynamic, or certainly witnessed it, and the life events that spiral out from there. Many songs are written from the perspective of the narrator as the main character. But Walsh approaches the narrative from the direction of someone who others have tried to turn into a side character like the guy who tells the narrator she was his plan B, the kind of male who acts like he understands others not as an act of empathy but of manipulation to get a weird, low vibration thrill of delusional power and influence in his social circles. But the narrator of the song even though she’s 20 has enough of a sense of self to not go through with a pregnancy or get spooked by some pharmacist because she wants different things for her life and makes for directions to better figure out what life holds for her. The guitar work and the vocal choruses become more elaborate, energetic and upwardly mobile in spirit toward the end of the song with an exhilarating sense that there’s much more to life than to be than the narrow and diminished dreams someone with no imagination and certainly not your best interests in mind has vaguely planned for you. The line “Ruminating on his fantasies/Could never have changed/What was/In front of me” rings so true in the context of the song and expresses the decisive shift in consciousness clearly because most people deserve better than they typically get or have been taught to expect for themselves. Listen to “Plan B” on Spotify and follow Anna Walsh on Instagram.