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We are urged to try, and if we should fail, to try again, the experience somehow making us more immune to the sense of impending defeat or bitter loss that we feel in our hearts. Like Robert the Bruce, the sense of history weighs upon us by observing the courage of one who inspires with their actions and fortitude, and the oohs and ahhs of those behind us who appreciate the attempt but never quite understand the anxiety and pressure of wanting to believe that a Nice Try should count for something more than pity.
Beauty, true strength, comes in the melancholic delivery, the outward pose of the unbeatable, but with the courage to allow the voice of reasonable doubt to breath in the open air, for in the nice try lays seeds of interest, of quality to come. It is also the opening belief of what can be seen as creativity seized with consideration, with broad shoulders and fine voice, and for Merseyside based musician Jessica Luise it the memory of a blissful response that holds attention to the audience.
To embrace the uplifting and to acknowledge the melancholic heart that resides within is to know that nice is not enough of a plaudit, and where others may strain to reach the place of respectable charming release, in Jessica Luise’s new track it is a land of opportunity, of the appeal we all wish we could muster and to spread the word of our own experience, and lay inspiration for others to follow.
To go weak at the knees, to feel the emotion of a love not worth your heart, is to be as human as it can be, for there is no such thing as perfect love, but there is the storm of creativity that follows, and in Nice Try, the sorrow of realisation that hits home in every love lost soul, is tempered by the upbeat nature of the tune that accompanies it. In that quake of the knees, that shiver of respect that goes up and down the spine as in a tingling expectation, is to be adored.
A simmering single in which to appreciate the talent of Jessica Luise, Nice Try…more of a scintillating launch of passion.
Jessica Luise’s Nice Try is released on January 22nd.
Ian D. Hall