I Really Don't Care! - Caroline Kingsbury
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This review is written by Bonnie Orbison. She is a published author and her latest release is the poetry collection Pretty Tennessee. If you enjoy her writing, more can be found on her online journal Howdy Bonnie! (poetry and personal diary essays) as well as with her fiction novels.
I Really Don’t Care! - Caroline Kingsbury
Caroline Kingsbury and I go far back, almost three years ago now we’re following each other’s careers and I can’t express in words how much I gasped waking up one random morning earlier this year, finding out her banger of a song Kissing Someone Else got a lot of attention overnight. Heaven’s Just A Flight, her debut album from 2020, helped me through my first heartbreak and that way actually became my most streamed album on Spotify ever with 1,145 scrobbles, according to my last.fm statistics, and it sounds about right.
I Really Don’t Care! is the perfect song to put on right away you got up. As a fiction writer, I am imagining the scene like this: you slept in another afternoon, it’s way too late now to have any sort of morning ritual or breakfast, so you put on colorful funky clothes cause you know only an oversized blazer and a lot of jewellery can only fix the image you have of yourself in your mind. The leftovers from yesterday are burning on the stove and you’re running late. You take a few quick bites and leave the house. You’re out with friends or strangers and although opportunities to distract you from constantly looping your last situationship in your mind, your thoughts and your heart are hard on you. You know though you shouldn’t care about it so much anymore, after all they should’ve just treated you better.
But I’m home by 10
Started taking off all my clothes
But now I’m crying in a stranger’s bed
Remember when you broke my heart
In Kingsbury’s same-titled EP I Really Don’t Care!, there seems to be an ongoing theme of the ambiguity between trying to move on and still being heartbroken by a previous partner.
In other songs off the EP, such as Take My Phone Away: “I’m calling you a thousand times / I’m in the bathroom on another date / Somebody take my phone away”, or Fly Too Close: “I can’t cry those tears / I once did in your name / I’m working the late shift / my mind starts to wonder”, you can see it as well.
Caroline and I actually had a conversation a week ago on how she’s calling me out with those lyrics and they hit home too close to my heart, as well as general about the EP, her debut album Heaven’t Just A Flight and grief & love in songwriting. Tune in on Friday!
I’m incredibly proud of everything Caroline as achieved in this past year and all the previous years before. It’s so beautiful to see she’s finally getting the acknowledgment she deserves. I mean who else can look like Cyndi Lauper, sing like Bruce Springsteen and then still make it all her own thing? I only know the legend herself, Caroline Kingsbury.
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This review is written by Bonnie Orbison. She is a published author and her latest release is the poetry collection Pretty Tennessee. If you enjoy her writing, more can be found on her online journal Howdy Bonnie! (poetry and personal diary essays) as well as with her fiction novels.
Here’s an online diary entry of Bonnie’s she actually wrote while being obsessed with Kingsbury’s single Blue Eyes that also suits the vibe of the entire new EP:
