Taste Test: Chris DeVito struggles turning ‘Thirty’
NYC singer-songwriter laments turning 30 and the fleeting nature of time on a stunning ballad.
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Turning 30 is tough to swallow for anyone. You think you know what this life is all about, but the days slip through the hourglass quicker than you expect. Your 20s then seem like nothing in the grand scheme of things. New York City’s folksy gem Chris DeVito pours out her sadness onto her acoustic guitar for a truly gutting performance. On her searing “Thirty,” a remarkably astute confessional that heaves grave melancholy, DeVito illustrates both vulnerability and remarkable strength in her willingness to expose every one of her trembling emotions. “I still feel cold and empty / Like a saddened widow’s grave / And when someone asks me what went wrong / I turned 30 today…,” she mourns fading youth, layers of the past falling away like lost memories. The dawn of reality breaks just over the horizon, and while the existential dread sets into the body, countless regrets morph into a comforting blanket in which we all wrap for comfort and warmth together.
“Thirty” leads off DeVito’s debut album, Beyond the Great Big Sky, out everywhere now.
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