Shai Rose “Overthinking”

“Overthinking” marks the first puzzle piece from Shia Rose’s debut album, The Road. The song revolves around the experience of starting a new chapter of a new beginning, however bittersweet that might be. It was at the time when Rose has just glued herself back from the initial heartbreak. She fell in love with a friend, but ended up being heartbroken all over again. The feelings of being lost rushed back again, she found herself trapped in overthinking, just like many did and many are.

“Not every love will set you free, not every love was meant to be.” She journals what she felt into the lyrics. Charged with immense feelings but transformed by music, these lines, sang through her soft but powerful voice became the glue that mends the broken hearts. Everyone can find a piece of themselves in Rose’s song.

The Road is about the first time of heartbreak, facing one’s inner self inside a half-imagined world, somewhere between heart and mind, navigating disillusioned realization of loneliness and heartache and finding light at the end of the tunnel. Rose weaves those intricate, tender and hardening feelings into poignant soundscapes, bringing a diverse musical influences taking hints from Pink Floyd, Radiohead, Bon Iver, Coldplay, Lana del Rey, Adele and Brittany Howard. With lyrics that read like a poem and a diary, she takes listeners on a journey with no destination but a new beginning.

"Without the dark the sun won't have a reason to rise and the moon won't shine without the light of the sun." — “Alone” from The Road.