Music Review // Ellie Heath "That Sunshine's Mine"

 

When you consider that Ellie Heath has an album called "Pushing Forty", which is where this song comes from, you'll begin to easily understand that "That Sunshine's Mine" is not about letting someone ruin your day.   In your younger years, you might be willing to tolerate more to fit in or for whatever other reasons, but the older you get the less you're willing to put up with somehow.  If it's going to become the rain cloud on your sunny day, you're going to ask it to just leave you alone.

With upbeat music which matches the tone of sunshine, Ellie Heath has a very fun way about delivering this song which feels like catching sunshine.  Lyrics such as "You're al stinky / I don't want your skunk in my funk" just go to show how someone can ruin the mood and you don't want to be around that type of person.   And as someone who has passed forty, let me tell you that we indeed do not have time for your negativity.

Though I'm not sure how to explain this, there is also this somewhat universal event which happens as you get closer to forty years old where you no longer care what other people think of you.  You might be twenty years old thinking that you don't care, but you'll realize that you don't truly mean that until it hits you all those years later.  With the lines: "Don't take my light / I just got it" Ellie Heath shows how when we get to be forty years old we get that new lease on life in ways, where we begin to just see things differently but so much better.

The music video for this song has Ellie Heath being chased around by Death.  Ellie Heath is such a main character that anything she does, I will watch.  Put her in movies.  There is a clever twist at the end when Death and Ellie Heath become friends.  I feel like getting older makes you feel closer to death, but if you're forty you're really not that much closer to it, so this video is a nice way of representing that.  The last line in the song simply says "Don't kill my vibe" and that should be the motto forever.