{"id":5155,"date":"2023-02-05T06:34:29","date_gmt":"2023-02-05T06:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/?p=5155"},"modified":"2023-02-05T06:34:31","modified_gmt":"2023-02-05T06:34:31","slug":"single-review-violet-lexi-caroll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/2023\/02\/05\/single-review-violet-lexi-caroll\/","title":{"rendered":"Single Review: &#8220;Violet&#8221; &#8211; Lexi Caroll"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"763\" height=\"747\" src=\"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_1645.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_1645.jpg 763w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_1645-300x294.jpg 300w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_1645-61x60.jpg 61w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 763px) 100vw, 763px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: violet\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/track\/3ChrPssbVddcgfmH8X3qeV?si=kgQ_haYHT2GYWFJ79nLzzA&#038;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>First of all, I\u2019d like to say I\u2019m very proud of <strong>Lexie Caroll<\/strong>, she\u2019s achieved a WHOLE lot over the last year \u2013 one of which is getting her music featured on Love Island.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This is her newest single and, as usual, it\u2019s stunning.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The lyrics draw you in immediately.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know what happened between<br \/>Playing in your mother\u2019s kitchen,\u00a0<br \/>Now everyone\u2019s asking where you are,<br \/>And heaven knows I hate the ghosts that wore you down<br \/>And took you on your promise it won\u2019t feel like this for long.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know it\u2019s difficult to talk about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This song shows Lexie\u2019s refusal to write about her truths, and for an artist of a young age, she\u2019s really expressing herself here.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Then again, her earliest memory of music is writing the chorus of a song with her friend at the age of six, so it doesn\u2019t surprise me that she\u2019s doing this now. Her lyrics are thoughtful and that\u2019s one of my favourite things about her.<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s also got a video to accompany this!<\/p>\n<p>Lexie is an 18 year old singer songwriter from London. I interviewed her in 2021, check it out\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/2021\/11\/20\/blog-interview-lexie-caroll\/\">here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First of all, I\u2019d like to say I\u2019m very proud of Lexie Caroll, she\u2019s achieved a WHOLE lot over the last year \u2013 one of which is getting her music featured on Love Island.\u00a0 This is her newest single and, as usual, it\u2019s stunning.\u00a0 The lyrics draw you in immediately.\u00a0 \u201cI don\u2019t know what happened &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[143,132,30,73,150,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-london","category-lyricist","category-music","category-singer-songwriter","category-songwriter","category-vocals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5157,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5155\/revisions\/5157"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}