In Eylsia Nicolas's “A Beautiful Mess,” her unique single, makes a bold entrance into the music world with the same grace and determination that took her to Wimbledon. The first-generation American sees Irish and Filipino descent as intimate yet epic, a battle cry from someone who forced a new self from devastation.
Having shifted from international champ to singer-songwriter post-career, Eylsia shares a new creative self. Eylsia Nicolas “A Beautiful Mess” captures her emotional landscape, its delicate honesty wrapped in luxurious melodies and a vocal that sounds unassuming. The song starts with the sincerity of a secret shared in a dark room, her voice carries the secret few speak of, and the gauzy acoustic textures and gushing lyricism create power, recasting fragile things as hidden splendor.
What makes it fascinating, however, is that her fragility is surrounded by strength. Her performance does not feel sterile, it is powerful. It breathes. It sings. It restores. This forces the voice to narrate it rather than the other way around, a voice suffused with grit and a story to share. Every line of “A Beautiful Mess” implies a past life on the grass, with its rigor and its misery. But it also means a future, a life with music as the rhythmic heart’s beat. In "A Beautiful Mess", she clearly portrays how a new voice can spring to life after an old one has gone. Indeed, Eylsia Nicolas has just found a new voice, the storyteller speaks the truth.