KISA - 'Hurting'
LA-based artist KISA reflects on the difficult times on confessional single, ‘Hurting’.
‘Hurting’ opens atmospherically with KISA’s gorgeous, hushed vocal accompanied with melancholic yet chill piano melody, showing that KISA knows that less is more when it comes to creating an affecting and mature pop song. As the track develops, plucky strings dip in and out of the track amongst ambient nuances seeing the track sonically ebb and flow to support the buoyant emotion represented in the lyrics as KISA explains:
”Hurting resembles the inner dialogue during difficult times, depression, and/or anxiety. Vulnerable and personal, this single is a representation of how I tend to speak to myself now versus how I would speak to a younger self going through hard times.”
While, ‘Hurting’ is a vulnerable and intimate lyric-led song, KISA’s tender soulful vocal never falters showing humble strength at every turn. 'Hurting’ is also the gift that keeps on giving, ending on a unique instrumental that opens a flood gate of feeling that gives breathing space for contemplation. Really beautiful stuff.
Words of Karla Harris