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 TITLE: Out ARTIST: Evangeline Wolfe WRITERS: Evangeline Wolfe LENGTH: 3:38 GENRE: Indie rock, indie pop, alternative country PRODUCER: Reza Vranitzky RELEASED: March 24th, 2014 LABEL: FREEDOM From the Album: Stay Strong, Drift On (Released February 23rd, 2014)
The second song on Evangeline Wolfe's debut album is the second out of four songs that is written solely by Evangeline herself. It is easy for listeners to tell if it's an "Evangeline" song because normally the topic won't be anything overly romantic, and usually the lyrics are very simple and clean. The other writers who helped her on this album, Moses Wolfe - who is Evangeline's father - and Reza Vranitzky - who is also the producer of the album, and more well-known for producing and writing Carmen Grant's debut album "Mercury" - tend to add a more complex element to song writing, and although their songs fit in very well to the rest of the album, nothing can beat a song that's written fully by the woman singing it.
This song is written not from any personal experience of Evangeline's or any personal experience of anybody she knows. The song is written fully out of a fantasy that Evangeline has. "It's not a fantasy in the way that it's something that I want to happen," Evangeline explained when talking about the song. "Just one day I was messing around with my guitar, and I started singing "You got out / You got out / You got out..." with the chords that I was playing, and slowly that became the song." The topic of the song is a simple one, with no real background story or explanation given. It's a song with almost an old western theme as Evangeline sings about somebody breaking out of jail, and how she needs to leave town because of it. She later reveals that she's the one that turned this person in, so the person will be looking for her and set on hurting her if she doesn't get out. In the overall scheme of the album, while this song may seem out of place now, the listeners will find that there's no real theme to the album that Evangeline feels she needs to be following, therefore she has nothing holding her back from writing and putting whatever songs she wants on her album. The song could be considered an homage to the original folk and country singers that mostly sang about the west, and a romanticized version of crime. No matter what her exact reasoning was for writing the song and then making it the second track on her debut album, Evangeline seems more than happy with the result.
The song, however, is one of the more pop-sounding songs on the entire album, giving the whole song a feeling of a modernization of an old folk tale, like Evangeline is taking an old idea and leaving a little bit of herself with it. The song starts off with an electronica sounding string symphony that acts as a lead into the indie pop song, Evangeline's voice sounding just as angelic and smooth as ever. If there were a real theme to this album, it would be the theme of Evangeline Wolfe doing whatever makes her happy, and if a song is confusing or feels disjointed from the rest of the album because of it's lyrics, or because it's lyrics and sound don't exactly match, that's mostly just because Evangeline liked it and this is Evangeline's album and not yours.
Word finally reached me today
Baby, I can't believe what they've been saying
That you got out
I don't know how, but you got out
I can't waste my time sitting here
I got to be somebody new and disappear
Because you got out
I don't know how, but you got out
Well, I may have turned you in
But you turned right back around
You got out
I want to try to remember to forget
I'm going to take everything but my regrets
Because you got out
I don't know how, but you got out
Well, I may have turned you in
But you turned right back around
You got out
You got out
You got out
You got out
Well, I may have turned you in
But you turned right back around
You got out
You got out
You got out
You got outSOUNDS LIKE:
Rilo Kiley - Breakin' Up
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