There’s an epidemic of sad songs that lacks real depth. And when it falls flat on substance, you’d know they value it as aesthetic than vulnerability. Edie Yvonne refuses to be a part of that with Look Me In The Eye.
Edie Yvonne is a 16-year-old LA-based singer-songwriter. With the release of Look Me In The Eye she carves her path in the scene, delivering a muted plea to be seen and recognized.
Yvonne welcomes you with a hum, the kind that lingers not because it’s gentle but because of its dark, distinct mood. Her vocals accompanied by somber guitar strokes creates this kind of mood you can’t quite name but oddly familiar. It’s fragile, almost reaching its breaking point while staring at you saying, “you won’t look me in the eye”.
It doesn’t just breathe in despair, it bleeds it. Yvonne totally captured the quiet ache of being unseen—dodging stares, the disconnect, the silence after the music died down. The track climaxes into hurried percussion hits and guitar riffs like it has been out of control, then immediately races back to the quiet need to be acknowledged.
Look Me In The Eye strives in restraint, hitting your wounds right at its core with her drowned out voice. And to be honest, knowing it was written by such a young musician will make you ask, “who hurt you?”. Imagine Billie Eilish and Phoebe Bridgers back at sixteen in the corner of their room, confronting indifference in the same muffled devastation. Yvonne sits in between, carrying the same lingering thought in her own artistic identity. With Look Me In The Eye, she proves that there’s so much more to anticipate in her growing discography.
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