Sitting on a light brown couch in a soft blue-lit room, Gilanares begins to sing guided by guitar chords akin to the tune of Taylor Swift’s “All Too Well”. The guitarist faces away from her and she looks longingly away from the camera. Gilanares makes performance videos for many of her songs, a particularly admirable feat in the current music landscape. The performance video for “all my favorite movies have an ending” reflects early 2010’s British rock bands in their stripped acoustic, self-shown sessions. There is something refreshingly honest here.
Gilanares incredible lyricism is evident. Every line, every syllable is calculated. She tells stories beautifully and in a way we recognize and achingly relate to. In one verse she sings “I’ve been looking for someone to come along and fix me. I just want a good time. I just want a good high. I just want somebody for me to romanticize.”
The song slows down to its finish and Gilanares sings “all my favorite movies have an ending so I think it’s condescending to tell me that everything will be okay, when it never stays that way”. Gilanares pulls the mic away from her face and the screen fades to black. Her next video queues up and you’re too entranced to close the browser.
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