Keli premieres her eerie new single, "I Can See You Everywhere," which seamlessly blends love and obsession. An eerie pulse runs under the music from the opening beat, and shadows fall beneath a sunny surface that feigns this is a love song.
The production of the song is striking and immersive. A deep, throbbing beat holds down the mix while layers of swelling backing vocals cycle around against it, like voices spinning just outside the frame. It makes you feel surrounded, almost scrutinized. Amid this and the lush, enveloping soundscape, Keli delivers a razor-sharp rap performance that's packed with tension and intimacy. She slices through the atmosphere with her voice.
"I Can See You Everywhere" explores the eerie boundary between love and obsession. The voice of the narrative is addicted to presence in memories, in shadows, in every nook of daily life, but it longs to believe that this persisting vision is still love and not an illusion. That ambiguity is the song's strength. It leaves you wondering which side of this nebulous struggle the speaker occupies. The synth work and production flourish with gestures of electronic experimentalism, but the rhythm and delivery head toward Keli's roots in rap. The result is a genre-melting emotional.
In "I Can See You Everywhere," Kelu invites us into a world encrusted with darkness and desire. This is music that sits with you, that unsettles, that makes you rewind and listen again. Keli's new single reminds us that real emotion just doesn't fit so easily inside the easy-breezy right angle.
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