After having been held in silence by grave illness for years, including the partial loss of a lung and vocal cords," Elysia Nicolas has made a comeback that seems nothing short of miraculous. Embracing new vocal technology, she is back to doing what she was born to do, sing her truth. And her single, "Not Gonna End Very Well Mix," a hardy, exuberant send-up that seesaws between haughty confidence and cutting indifference to adversity, is the perfect distillation of it.
The track brims with character from the opening beat. It's got that end-of-the-world energy, not the gloomy, brooding kind, but the let's dance while the sky's falling kind. Elysia mines irony with high-spirited, intelligent lyrics that make light of our shared calamity. The jams like a cold, the delivery is nothing if not self-assured, and beneath all the fun, there's an undertow of emotion, deep emotion that only emerges from someone who has stared into the abyss and decided to sing anyway.
"Not Gonna End Very Well Mix" is an address. Elysia takes the potential tragedy and turns it into triumph, loss becomes art, and pain becomes rhythm. And her voice, resurrected, refreshed, is flush with a sparkling surface and bruised underbelly that make for the correct ratio of delicacy to flame. It's not the sound of an ending, it's the sound of a propulsive new beginning. Elysia Nicolas is proof that even when the world feels like it's ending, you can still find your song and make it worth dancing to.
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