Piper Connolly's "beautiful life" is the kind of song that sneaks up on a season and claims it.
Some songs carry a feeling that they know who you are, personally. In other words, you are not the artist, yet you can fully relate to the song.
For me, Piper Connolly was able to capture this feeling in her latest single "beautiful life." The song does not make itself known by any kind of big introductory announcement. It simply starts, and all of a sudden, you are driven to a "good place": a warm location, with your windows rolled down, and the sun creating those perfect, mid-afternoon rays that make you feel that things are coming together for you at this time.
"beautiful life" was produced by Kevin Gruft and Esjay Jones, with both having worked with many others, such as Billy Corgan, and Blink-182. You can hear in the song that the people creating it know how to create great music. Connolly moves through the song as though she has been waiting for the moment.
The "pop" part of the song is what will keep this from becoming a overly sweet, perfect song. However, that edge she uses so effectively is never an 'in-your-face' thing and is more of a product of the clarity of emotion in her writing and the fact that her voice does not push the song past stress, but rather holds it natural.
While this song has the hallmark that goes with all pop love songs, it doesn’t expect you to buy into what it says; it leads you into that emotion and lays out what it is going to be named.
The singer is a twenty-something woman who lives in Los Angeles, where the industry machine is picking up speed. The plan for her music is into place and the label is behind her; however, before anyone has heard her song, the hype could potentially take some of the life away from the track as well as the artist. Beautiful Life, nevertheless, has enough good vibes to rise above all that.
Listen to it twice before thinking about all the stuff going on around the track; when you listen to this song, the listener thinks only about the person they’re interested in.