Review: Leaving the Party by Ellis Newman
Article by: Megan Vineberg
Ellis Newman describes her music as authentic Gen-Z pop. To her, the music is a means of escape from every day life. In her track, “Leaving The Party,” she embraces the fact that she’s introverted and would rather be having meaningful interactions with friends, than drinking at a a party.
Newman opens her track “Leaving The Party,” with heavy reverb enveloping the vocal. I enjoyed the production on this track, the drums and bass only coming in as needed. The more I listened, the more I really started to get into Newman’s headspace. Reminiscent of Kiiara, and Rebecca Black, I couldn’t get enough of Ellis. She could do really well on EDM tracks in the future, and with an audience of 1,144 monthly listeners, she’ll quickly be climbing the Billboard charts.
Newman explains in an Instagram post promoting the single, “My favorite [line] is ‘people spill their drinks and their drunk honesty on me.’”
The song was co-written with Dutch artist Yentl Pool and it highlights an artist who is introverted, and wants to get back to the music. In a review by The Other Side, “Leaving The Party,” was called an “anti-party anthem,” and it feels exactly like that. The contrast between the production and the lyrics is interesting – a technique that pop singer, songwriter, and producer Charlie Puth regularly goes to. The drums and bass highlight the urge to escape from the place where she’s at, wanting to be anywhere else. The sensory discomfort Newman feels definitely translates through this track to the listener, and it’s pretty straight forward here. She’s not interested in what everyone else is doing to get by, or to have a good time. Newman is secure enough in herself to know when she is genuinely enjoying herself, and she isn’t willing to compromise her interests to win people over. The artistic choice on this track reminds me of what Lauren Jauregui did with “Scattered,” choosing to make the track all over the place to represent her sentiment at the time.
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