At just 15, Ava Valianti is showing that you wonโt believe that sheโs 15, with her insanely mature performance and songs that resemble diary entries cracked open and set to music.
Her latest single, โButtercupsโ, is no exception. It starts off with gentle acoustic guitar plucking and Avaโs soft, high voice wrapping around you like a memory you donโt want to let go of. The chorus comes with her voice soaring to a falsetto and singing the refrain like you would to a baby. She sings, โArenโt you my buttercup, my buttercup, baby?โ
Just when youโve settled into the dreamy calm, the track flips. Yeah, I didnโt imagine it either. Suddenly, the beat drops hard and fast against the strumming sparkling clear guitars guitars slice in, and Avaโs voice, now thick with pain, soars with raw emotion. Itโs as if the song grows up in real time, the innocence cracks, and youโre left staring into the wreckage of what used to be love. It pulls the rug out from under you, and thatโs exactly why it works.
We start suspecting just how sweet this love was, she was singing of up till now, itโs more like, sheโs still deluded and canโt accept things fully. The beauty of โButtercupsโ lies in this contradiction that comes like comfort laced with denial.
Already with accolades, radio play, and festival gigs piling up, Avaโs not just some teenage dream; sheโs got the emotional chops and songwriting maturity of someone twice her age. With โButtercupsโ leading the charge toward her debut EP this fall, sheโs carving out her space in this cutthroat industry. Mark your calendars, because she has gigs lined up this August and September.
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Review by: Naomi Joan