Music Review // ALEIA "Middle Name"
When "Middle Name" begins there is this sound in the guitars which reminds me of The Cranberries, but as the song goes on it gets into a lighter sort of alternative rock meets dreamwave sound. At first I'm hearing artists such as Whisper Doll coming through, but by the end and in the way that the hook repeats I'm also reminded of one of my favorite bands Bad Self Portraits. This song also has a way of getting stuck in my head, though I'd hesitate to call it pop. Right away with these big guitars ALEIA comes out with the lyric: "How did I expect to get well / In the place that makes me sick". This is a fair question and one that I've often wondered. Even if you check yourself into a hospital, once you get out it feels like you're going right back into where it all started all over again. I also think of this in the sense of how most jobs in the United States don't have paid sick leave, so people go home for a minimum amount...