Synth Single Review: “Messy Love” by Fonz Tramontano & Calida J
by Karl Magi
Fonz Tramontano & Calida J’s “Messy Love” is an exploration of a deep connection. The song comes into being as a hollow sound glides distantly and the main melody combines gentleness and dreamy remembrance as it moves above the shaping rhythm. Calida J’s voice is crystal clear and carries affection while the drum beat pulses with easygoing motion.
As a synth bursts with radiance, Calida J’s voice soars with warming depth, cascading with caring. The foundation is gigantic as tiny notes above it float with sparkling precision before the main melody sails out, its moving emotion capturing me.
The vocals are full of soulful energy while a synth glimmers with encouragement and prismatic affection. The low end guides the music while Calida J’s affecting voice transmits the melody as it flies out above the beat and misty notes shift as silence falls.
As our storyteller says, “I never intend to push your love away,” she explains that her coldness when the song’s subject tries to “pull me closer, hold me longer, kiss my head” is because she expects the other person to walk away like her father did when she was younger. However, the other person stays with “open arms, showing me how I deserve a better love.”
The narrator asks, “Will you still hold me in the dead of night? Can you still love me in the cold moonlight?” She asks if the song’s subject can find a way to live with her “messy love,” in spite of her being broken. She wonders if they can still love her and her messy love.
“I know the things I do can make no sense,” because our storyteller struggles to find the words to explain her thoughts or discuss what she’s feeling. She tries to open up but finds herself walking away, “not expecting you to hang around, not expecting you to see a future.” With more confidence, she says, “But here we are, we’re going far, we make our plans, we’ve got our messy love.”
In conclusion, the narrator asks, “Would you still choose me if we met again? If time reversed and it went way back then? And through my faults would you still find a way to love me in my messy love?”
