Britney Meistre recently spent some time in Los Angeles, the beating heart of pop songwriting, and has returned polished and refreshed with a brand new single “What About Us”, flexing the sonic maturity she has garnered over there.
Hinged on hazy synth and percussive rhythm, Meistre’s rolling vocals cut to the quick as she unspools her own take on heartbreak, pivoted on the operative question: what about us? A fibrillating beat lies almost indistinctly as the undertow to the track, bolstering it throughout as Meistre draws out her own heartache with a plea for more before the end: “Would it hurt you to just to love just me a little bit longer?”
The visual counterpart is where the offering falls slightly short, though. Erring on the basis of little thematic scope, it’s a black and white snapshot of Meistre being prepped for a night out; she perches in a make-up chair as she mouths her melancholy verses into the mirror.
That being said, there’s an elegance the visual lends to the whole thing, an exhibition of subdued emotions and sentimental scope which backs up the searing countenance of the track itself with polished simplicity.
Feature pic by Kyle Sloan
