SINGLE REVIEW: MAISYN “POOL PARTY”
“I allowed myself to reach for the darkest places, and I wound up with a song about the subtle invasiveness and shame of body dysmorphia. Once I started actually speaking to my experience, the song took shape effortlessly,” said Maisyn on “Pool Party.”
The poignant submersive summer anthem “Pool Party” by Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter Maisyn tackles self-image and body dysmorphia as the pool season approaches. Although hardly anyone is 100% delighted with their self-image, body dysmorphia is a mental disorder that involves distress over imagined or minor defects in appearance, which leads to dysfunction in one’s life.
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“Made myself smaller being quiet, felt a burn, and learned how to deprive it. If baby’s bad, put her on a diet.”
Diving in, hoping to disappear, sinking and drifting away. The image of water is accompanied by the memory of summer. Mellow guitar and dreamy effects in between the lines captured the sensitive moments when words have lost their sounds, reaching for the soft, vulnerable corner of memory that one tried so long to cover up.
“The one recurring thought that occupies me; to be a woman wanted for her body, running through the yard in a bikini.” But in the attempt to become someone else, the need will never be fulfilled but further the damage.