Pretty Little Saturday’s new single, “Tangerine,” released on August 22, 2025, finds the Asheville-based singer delicately plunging into the vulnerabilities that we all share. After the success of her debut, she steps back into the spotlight with a touching, heartfelt track regarding closeness and connection. Produced with Patrick Doyle and Phillip Shaw Bova, “Tangerine” holds onto its organic roots while having the touch of pop, written between the serenity of the mountains and the restless buzz of Los Angeles. It’s a song born out of fracture, questioning who will stand by when the façade cracks and the chaos bleeds through.
Opening with whimsical and wistful melody, her voice floats in almost like a whisper of truth she’s afraid to say too loud. She sings, “Can’t handle anything that’s actually real in life, I just seem to run and hide everything,” drawing us into her paralysis, confessing how vulnerable she is against the weight of reality. The chorus becomes the spine of the song, circling around the aching question, “Who’s going to love you when you’re falling apart at the seams?” It feels less like performance and more like an echo of the thoughts we’ve all had in moments of quiet collapse.
As the track unfolds, she bends vulnerability into resilience, almost slyly. Even when she reveals, “Every time that you break me, you seem to think it’s fine,” there’s a heartbeat of defiance pulsing beneath the tenderness. She sings of the power dynamics and the pain we all encounter when we permit someone to hold us. The melody stays restrained, as if the music itself is holding her together, while the imagery of everything turning “gingerine” suggests a surreal distortion of life when despair hits hardest. Yet the closing refrain hints at the hope that perhaps being broken open can lead to unexpected clarity.
“Tangerine” lands as a luminous meditation on pain, trust, and the sensitive persistence of love. Check it out on Spotify.
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Review by: Naomi Joan