Ellur - Missing Kid
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Ellur - Missing Kid
Feel incredibly lucky to have recorded a podcast episode with Ellur on her latest released EP ‘God Help Me Now’ (you can listen to it soon this Summer). I still remember the January afternoon we both had our cups of tea next to us, we talked about songwriting, heartbreak and finding joys in this world.
Missing Kid seems the perfect soundtrack for this Summer. I don’t know about you but I feel like everyone I have talked to has gone through some trauma resurfacing, heartbreaks or stages of grief this year already. Everyone had one thing in common with these feelings: we miss who we were before. Whatever that means. A feeling in our life, maybe we think the person we were with was the reflector of something special and now we’re on our own, or maybe life simply happened and we have grown into another version of ourselves we are learning to be comfortable with now.
When I asked Ella if she wanted to comment something on the song, she replied with what the song means to her: “A song about how stepping into adulthood feels like being a kid in a supermarket who’s lost their Mum. It’s about how rapid a moment of excitement can become a moment of deep fear. It’s about how I observe the people in my life and I feel like I’m just copying what everyone else is doing because I don’t know what I’m supposed to do. When we recorded it, I imagined playing it on a giant festival stage and imagined everyone singing along. It’s chaos, it’s desperation, it’s a cry for help but we’ve been playing it this whole year at festivals and it’s really really fun to play.”
Certainly we’ve all been there at least once; the feeling of being lost, fluorescent lights above us, the urge to cry but full on know we can’t admit that we’re in need of a supportive hand or acknowledge of our strength. Just this morning before I sat down to finish writing this review, I experienced an exciting feeling of a door opening for me, only to be hit with the strong fear to step through that opportunity. Because of the unknown how things will turn out? Fear of change? I feel like I’ve been keeping an address book with an endless list of reasons to be afraid of the uncertainty life offers one.
Every dream I have
I come out the fool
There’s hero
I’ve been looking to
A fictional world where you can’t keep letting me down
Everything I’ve done
Was for loving you
Straight from a diary entry, these words are hitting my home bell with force. If you have ever dared yourself to dream, you’ve been called a fool for believing in the dream itself or yourself sooner than later. I wish I wouldn’t be the standard, I wish it might not be a canon event for any artist, dreamer out there. True is though that you leave the event stronger and maybe even with more will force to seek your dreams. To make them happen. But remember they only really work out if you keep following them cause you truly want them to be part of your life.
It’s the moments in between where you’re in need of putting on a song that kicks your legs and inspire you to keep going. Missing Kid certainly is the perfect song to put on then, scream your heart out to the lyrics and let your body move like no one’s watching. Excpet your inner kid whose incredibly proud of you - regardless of what you’re doing, feel or following. They’re right there supporting you wherever you’re going.
My interview with Ellur is coming out this Summer. We also discussed what’s next and how excited she is for everything she’s got planned. Obviously since then, Ellur has played shows in the US, has announced an upcoming UK headline this Fall as well as ‘Missing Kid’ is out now. If there’s even more, all Ellur listeners and fans shall say a big thank you, cause we’re being served in endless ways, Ellur keeps slaying and rocking our hearts with every new song.
here’s the music video to ‘Missing Kid’:
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This review is written by Bonnie Orbison. She is a published author and her latest release is the poetry collection Pretty Tennessee. If you enjoy her writing, more can be found on her online journal Howdy Bonnie! (poetry and personal diary essays) as well as with her fiction novels.
Here’s a paragraph from a journal entry of mine, following the themes of ‘Missing Kid’: “five months since I’ve last been in England and I’m returning. And I’m suddenly aware that it never was about the specific place or about the different past versions I was afraid to face like haunting ghosts. It’s about time’s inevitable consequence called change.
I’ll meet different people every single time. Even if you run into someone you hang out last time or simply know, you both lived during your absence. Your presence wasn’t there to witness experiences, kisses or losses. Maybe a text or phone call away, but never a car ride or a hug away. It’s usually a flight. Or a couple of different trains to board. Or worse, both.
I’ll go to different places to eat, or get my records, or it’s another spot where I thrift another nightdress I simply put off as my new summer dress. It’s different streets I walk upon with an album in my headphones that wasn’t out yet last time I was in this country. maybe it’s not even music, since I started addictively listen to audiobooks whenever I take a walk last month.”
