LA-based pop artist Katie MAC is back with a vulnerable and sonically bold track that strikes you immediately. Her new single, "Parallel Lines," is an emotional download from a part of your heart that you usually turn down. Katie MAC has never been one to shy away from vulnerability, though Parallel Lines sounds like a new level of emotional clarity. It is the sound of somebody figuring out how to speak the language of their heartbreak, glitch by glitch, lyric by lyric.
"Parallel Lines" depicts that bittersweet place between what might have been and never was. The verses listen as though reflecting, looping thoughts in an insomniac's mind, adorned with glitchy textures and vocoder touches that lend the song a lovely sense of static, the kind that rests in your chest when the silence between two people says everything that words cannot.
Katie's delivery of the lines can also sound raw and unhinged, but there is a turvy-topsy frenzy she rides through art and mine dance floors and meditative rap mixes that is far, far beyond the surface sensations of feeling "Be the Light / Oh Girl, / Be the Light." The production is a standout, moody, intimate, and carefully unpolished in all the right ways. Then the chorus hits: cinematic, bass-heavy, emotionally unfiltered.
What is so haunting about Parallel Lines is not just its unsettling honesty but the way Katie MAC turns the very concept of heartbreak into something that feels weirdly universal and uniquely personal all at once. It's not about a breakup but that liminal space where love never had a chance to start. It's about loving someone who's always been out of breath's reach and knowing they never quite will close the gap. Whether you're liquidating an almost-love of your own or attracted to pop music that pierces with genuine human strength, "Parallel Lines" demands your consideration and possibly that you drive out alone one night with it on maximum volume and the windows rolled down.
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