Music Review // Dallas Rodin "Did I Make You Up Inside My Head?"

Dallas Rodin has created an EP which both reflects the emotional state of the songs within the lyrics and the music.  "Did I Make You Up Inside My Head?" is a reflection on a relationship gone bad, which by the end becomes an almost revenge type of ballad in the slow burn of "A Place for You in Hell".   These songs are about what the title says and as such the lyrics and music both can take you through a ride from start to finish, but by the end you'll be left with a glimmer of hope.

"Pretty Life" is the first song on here and it has that big beat pop way about it, like RIELL.   A bit more spooky / "Stranger Things" types of synths come in on "Insomnia" and they continue through the third song, "Paralyzed", though that song also has some dance synths on it.  There are Kesha and Gaga vibes and just lots of energy on "Paralyzed".   A more complex pop comes out in the verses of "Seeing Red" with the chorus breaking down in a song that remnds me of Vicki Lovelee.  

By the end, into the last two songs, it just feels like whatever type of wild car chase type of ride we've been on is coming to an end.   "Is There a Light at the End of the Tunnel?" has a pure, isolated piano part to it as lines come out like "It's too late to cry" and "For the first time, baby / I might see a light at the end of the tunnel".  This gives us hope that after everything else which has happened on this EP, there will be some good going forward.  

The older that you get, the more you look back on things and wonder if it was something that happened to you, a dream you once had or just something you saw in a movie.  In that sense, I think the theme on Dallas Rodin's "Did I Make You Up Inside My Head?" can be universal.   Even if you know for sure that something happened to you and this person was real, the experience can still leave you feeling as if it wasn't real and sometimes that's what life is.