Music Review // ALEIA "Public Humiliation"

One thing I really enjoy about music is how you can have a certain genre and just take it and make it into something close but not the same.   This is how I feel about this debut EP by ALEIA because while it can be compared with some of the women on the radio (Taylor Swift, Sabrina Carpenter, etc) it overall just tends to be more on the rock side than the pop side.   This is especially good if you enjoy that radio pop but sometimes just find it to be a little bit over the top, so you want to tone the pop elements down.

This EP begins with pianos and a big rock sound, but by the second song it can turned into these blissful acoustics.  This does remind me a bit of Lana Del Rey, who I don't quite put in the same category as the others.  I enjoy the lyric: "My melencholy is a catalyst / Good thing that he's a masocist" and it just sets the tone for having someone in your life who isn't right for you and wants to make you cry, but also maybe just accepts you for who you are and doesn't see you as ugly in any way.

With a nice guitar riff and those drums coming in, the third song- the titular track- seems to be the most rocking.  The chorus says "This isn't love / This is public humiliation" and this once again seems to point us into that direction of this being an EP about people who are not good for you.   By the end of the song there is a nice build up, which also brings out the lines: "I pray for nothing more / You're the back board I'm gonna rebound".

"Public Humiliation" feels like a collection of songs about bad relationships.  When you feel like you're just into bad relationship after bad relationship, you start to question whether it's the other people or maybe just something is wrong with you, that you keep attracting these people who aren't right for you.   And it's not that you enjoy the humiliation it just seems to be what comes with these relationships the most.   If you feel like you can relate, this rocking EP is for you.