Mary Ella Hunt “Changed”
Mary Ella Hunt is a nuanced singer-songwriter and a storyteller with meaningful stories to tell. Just with her voice and guitar, she sits you down in an undisturbed, intimate setting, where her songs take you to a confession that ends in transformation and healing. “Changed” isn’t just a wonderfully written song, it’s also humbly impactful yet expressive.
Written in the depth of night, where truth and heartbreak flooded in, the space draws from the longing to express and the push of not willing to give it all in. “Changed” creates a light mood of melancholia and introspection. Hunt’s honest, sensitive vocal and atmospheric guitar dissolve into an expansive tremolo of strings that feel as though the lighthouse in a storm or the sun breaks through the clouds. Nuanced and mood-filled, the ballad changes the way you feel, leading you into a moment of reflection as it deepens.
Into the second half, an urge to confront the heartbreak and truth breaks through the shell and becomes forefront. From a softly orchestrated atmospheric soundscape, the track expands and radiates. It keeps on diving deeper into the most feared emotions, like the pearling of the layers of an onion, in which tears are the inevitable. “Changed” builds up to a momentum with a swell of sonics that feel so immediate and fresh. Hunt’s vocal also becomes more emotive and nakedly vulnerable.
If the stripped first half is the process of sinking in, the second is where it becomes therapeutic. The very subtly yet authentically orchestrated track is like a guided meditation where it stimulates and evokes the unsolved traumas and emotional issues. Something you didn’t even know about yourself become visible while listening to the song. A revelation of some sort, a deepening of connection and understanding.
3 minutes are barely enough. Mary Ella Hunt is a true talent that makes you want to keep coming back to. Put her music in the background, let her voice purify your mind and soul. It feels healing just have it in your life somewhere.
