Music Review // Scarlett Macfarlane "Immortal"

 

When this song begins it can feel like playful pop.  There is this sense of wonder to it, where it can take you into this magical realm and it just feels like something I haven't heard before.  It's like taking certain mainstream pop artists and twisting their sound to create something new with this.  Of course that all changes as the chorus comes crashing down in this huge, dramatic way.  I obviously always think of artists such as Vickie Lovelee when I hear these elements of drama and opera added into the music, like a big pop stage show.

The idea behind this song is rather interesting because it's about not being able to die but I'm not sure to what extent.  There are lines like "Your dreams begin, when this nightmare ends" which I like.  But the whole idea of "The game we play, it's not on even ground / Hear what I'm sayin', what you lost I found".  This does just seem to go with the whole idea of someone being immortal going up against someone who isn't, but I guess if you want to think about why these two people are at odds it's up to you.

Being immortal is such an interesting concept to me because if you leave a mark on this world somehow, you're never going to truly die.  There was an actor who I won't name that when they died I was sad, but I also thought about all of the movies we still had.  So if I can just press play on a film and see that actor, then are they really dead?  I feel that way about music too, though I miss the hell out of Tom Petty and while being able to play his music on Spotify or whatever is good it still doesn't fill that void of not seeing him perform live any more.

This song comes to an end with the lyrics "An eternity / To live fearlessly / Infinity / Endless possibilities / An eternity / Just to be..." and in that way I don't think so much about being immortal in the way that we actually live forever, but more so of a reminder that we aren't going to live forever and so the best time to do that thing you've always wanted to do is now.   So it's just that idea of feeling like you're no long afraid of dying, so you're no longer afraid of living.  Then you get out there and be your true self.