Valerie Warntz Sheds Culturally Internalized Notions of Love and Relationships on “The One I’ll Never Find”

Valerie Warntz, photo courtesy the artist

Valerie Warntz has written a song for everyone who is new to the realization that what we’ve been conditioned to want out of a relationship sets us up for a lifetime of disappointment and hurt feelings. Calling the song “The One I’ll Never Find” is more than a clue. But the song is not the typical creative melodrama one might expect in a pop song. Warntz strips back the psyche a bit more and instead of merely pointing the finger she takes some responsibility for being in a place in her mind where she succumbs to these internalized narratives that seems at the root of so many relationship issues and the way people often behave in relationships in the end and maybe themselves treat intimate relationships like a transactional affair. The songwriter doesn’t offer any easy answers because there aren’t any, just a portrait of hurt and realization that goes beyond the kind of song people often write to get over a break-up or break-ups. It’s a nuanced yet raw examination of the human condition. Musically, Warntz’s expressive vocals give emotionally direct while the background synth line have an expansive quality as though expressing that transformative moment when you realize the way you’ve been doing things, the way you’ve been, no longer serves you, even if you don’t yet know what will. Listen to “The One I’ll Never Find” on Soundcloud and connect with Valerie Warntz at the links provided. Her new EP Emotions & Sentiments, which includes this song, was released on May 8, 2020.

https://soundcloud.com/valeriewarntz
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCI_n4C_0SZKdheL7I_BTJig
https://twitter.com/ValerieWarntz
https://www.instagram.com/warntz

Valerie Warntz’s “4 AM” is an Orchestral Evocation of Mixed Emotions Cast Into the Night

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Valerie Warntz, photo courtesy the artist

“It’s 4 AM, the windows are open wide,” Valerie Warntz sings at the top of the chorus of the song “4 AM” sounding like she’s been there before, up too late contemplating looking back on the night, back on her life wondering how she got here and why she keeps doing this to herself. One imagines her looking out into the pre-dawn night when anyone normal that doesn’t have an overnight job or crawling back from a shift in the service industry is already asleep after a long night. The accented piano line, the pulses of electronic bass and Warntz’s voice interact like a miniature orchestra giving voice to that moment in your life when maybe you feel confused about a relationship and where it’s going or where it went wrong with someone part of you doesn’t want to live without but another part of you know is causing you the kind of emotional distress to be up late but not sure if that means the feelings are deep or if those deep feelings are a sort of rationalization of the repeated pain you experience in your connection with that person. Except that the song sounds like the aftermath of the initial inner turmoil and you’re just contemplating what to do from here and if it’s all worth salvaging but knowing, as much as you don’t want to admit it to yourself, despite the comforts you’ve enjoyed, that it’s over. The song is part of Warntz’s album Revelation due for release later in 2019 but for now you can listen on Soundcloud and follow Valerie Warntz at the links below.

soundcloud.com/valeriewarntz
youtube.com/channel/UCI_n4C_0SZKdheL7I_BTJig
twitter.com/ValerieWarntz
instagram.com/warntz