Taste Test: Isa Molin is a little ‘Scared Holding on to You’
Soul-pop newcomer admits to her fear of commitment with a new torch song.
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Fear of commitment is called gamophobia, which is often triggered from past trauma. It pounces when you least expect it, too. Swedish newcomer Isa Molin addresses her own version of such torment with her new song, exposing raw nerve and bellyaching grit. “Scared Holding on to You,” certainly weighted to the bottom by two-ton melancholy, is just as much a cathartic release, a glimmer of hope peeping out between anthemic percussion and her skyward bellow. “I feel electric / And I can not move,” she sings once the arena-sized suit of armor crumbles into a stardust whirlwind. But she rapidly turns overwhelming doubt into a shot of adrenaline, and only then does she truly come alive for what could be the adventure of a lifetime. “You see, I made a promise to be on my own,” she also concedes, further unraveling the misgivings shivering beneath the surface. In the end, she inches closer to full redemptive power.
“Scared Holding on to You” is Molin’s first release since last year’s altogether underrated “The Reason.”
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Photo Credit: Adrian Perhson
