Viola Odette Harlow - Little Dream

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Viola Odette Harlow - Little Dream

Lucky to say I’ve witnessed Viola Odette Harlow’s transformative journey into an honest and true path to share her passion of music with us. I’ve met one of my dear friends Ruby on the night I watched Viola perform in London a few years ago. Ruby spent my birthday afternoon with me last year. We went to an American diner with Elvis’ statues and Roy Orbison playing, sharing fried cauliflower. Our time together brought us to a carousel at the beach. We got coins and made our way onto porcelain horses and watched the sun set slowly, the way it does in August.

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Little Dream, the new song by Viola Odette Harlow, gifts me with the same magical sparkles as the memory on the porcelain horses, riding in a circle, in lovely company, simply letting the moment be.

Christmas time can feel heavy, grieving memories or even wishes that didn’t come true that year, are weighing on our shoulders. Sometimes family is all a little too much or a little lacking. Maybe you’re in company, maybe you’re in solitude this Wednesday. I know it’s easy to get sick of the overplayed Last Christmas or All I Want For Christmas Is You, so it’s important to at least select one special song for yourself. It can be the same every year, or maybe like this year, Viola released Little Dream, and I knew it’ll be mine this time. And here I am listening to it on repeat on Christmas Eve.

This year was full of rough patches and running through hallways, following signs or turn arounds. One thing I learnt this year, it’s to simply follow one’s trust. I will never know what dream is the right one to pursue right now, at all or maybe later in my life. There is a difference of standing still and taking a moment, and the one of putting comfortable shoes on, packing a raincoat, and strutting through the fog, even when the sight is unclear.

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I think the bigger dreams
Have my hands tied
While I'm painted like a doll
In blinding lights

Could I be something normal
Have the luck of a kid
Where’s Dorothy’s Kansas
Oh, I’ve made a mess
It’s been the smallest dream
I can’t get right

I have a little dream
This Christmas night

~ Viola Odette Harlow

Beginning of 2025, I was rest assured to move to Paris. With every death and every funeral I been to this year, I slowly picked up on the shift, of a timeline, of a reality, maybe simply how I felt inside my own body. Paris is there for me, the Seine has seen me crying this year a couple of times. But the move wasn’t meant for me this year. Maybe someone else did move to Paris this year, experienced the many dreams I had within le rêve grand.

I cried listening to Little Dream, because the lines of Berlin and Paris reminded me of those feelings and how I followed them, even though I do wish I would’ve ignored them, chased the Parisian life and abandoned the whispering dreams I did run after this year. The little dreams that will make 2025 something to remember, looking back at it one day.

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I sincerely hope Viola will have a wonderful Christmas time, and will also be able to look at 2025 with peace, harmony and love. She released her album Porn Star this year, the song Better is my favorite off. Here’s to a more hopeful and definitely better 2026 :) Thanks for reading my words this year!

here’s the music video to ‘Little Dream’:

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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.

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Here’s a paragraph from a poem of mine, following the themes of ‘Little Dream’:

“in a big world i feel so small

honestly look at us all! we are!

smaller like the humpback whales

we think we can rescue nature

but nature will rescue once, another time

another dream, another light”

steinbeck (21 forever)