Taste Test: Izzy Heltai uncovers reality with new song, ‘The Stranger You’ve Become’
The folk singer-songwriter reassesses a past friendship.
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“Get off your phone / Get off this park bench / Get out the road / She’s coming to drive you mad,” counsels Izzy Heltai. The folk singer-songwriter, once under arresting delusions, rises out of a mental fog to realize that reality wasn’t reality at all. A friendship he once held dear is exposed to be something else entirely. With “The Stranger You’ve Become,” he cracks open the past and reassesses what has been nothing more than gaslighting. “I can see it in your face again / Your patience wearing thin / I’m being sensitive,” he later sings, unsure of his own emotions or perceptions. The song drags along, a tear-stained path, and inevitably, the exterior flakes away and what is left is immense sadness.
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