Jeremy Parsons arrives with brutal honesty on his new single โWho Was I?,โ out September 5 and lifted from the forthcoming EP Life (out September 19). What was a response to a critic ends up shedding irony and becomes a wide-open confessional, as Parsons stares at his younger self with the clarity that only time and a few hard knocks can buy. Musically, itโs giving all the Americana warmth, with soft guitars, gentle tapping beats, and a vocal that sits close and weathered. The arrangement gives the lyrics room to breathe, and Parsons uses that space to turn memory into universal reckoning.
The track opens with relaxing, pastoral chords, then settles into a steady groove as Parsons unspools scenes from age 25, drifting, numb thrills, nights lived for escape. He sings, baring the reality of his youth naked on the page with the lines, โSleeping through the days, living for the night / Yeah doing lots of things to see if I could die,โ conveying he lived through something like a dare and a diagnosis, as a young man testing the limits and learning which ones cost you. Elsewhere, he sings, โThey prayed to Jesus and they finished out school,โ to show that reality was struck to the traditional one-way route of praying, going to school, and having kids. It isnโt judgmental so much as a portrait of choices he didnโt fit, so naturally came the restlessness for something different.
By the bridge, the tone shifts, with Nashville dreams, moving back in with Dad at 32, the soft acceptance that comes with hindsight. When he asks, implicitly, who was chasing who, the question lands, were we pursuing dreams or running from ourselves? Parsons offers his lived answer. โWho Was I?โ is modest in production but enormous in heart, as an intimate, plainspoken snapshot of growth that turns youthful chaos into earned perspective.
Check out the music video to get an illustration of the story on YouTube.
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Review by: Naomi Joan