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 TITLE: Kick This Rage ARTIST: Carmen Grant WRITERS: Carmen Grant LENGTH: 2:38 GENRE: Indie folk, alt-country PRODUCER: Reza Vranitzky LABEL: Just Record Records RELEASED: December 10th, 2014 From the Album: TBA
It's been a pretty busy year for Carmen Grant, despite this being the first music she released in five months - and the first new music she's released in over a year. Many people were afraid that she may be slipping into the shadows, as so many other singers who reach the amount of fame Carmen had so quickly do. But Carmen hushed them all by co-hosting the 2014 Fan Choice Awards with Suzie Stockholm, displaying that she was still her weird, quirky self and that she wasn't going anywhere any time soon. Between her charming back-and-forth with Suzie Stockholm, her whimsical dancing around the stage, her tendency to refer to herself in the third person, and her ongoing communication the audience, many refer to Suzie and Carmen's Fan Choice Awards as the best so far. The awards show even featured an original song by Carmen Grant, sung by herself and Suzie, titled "Fuck, It's Been a Really Good Year," a song dedicated to discussing all of the major events that have happened since the last Fan Choice Awards show. The song went on to radio airplay, charting for a few weeks before falling off. And then things went back to being quiet for Carmen - at least for a little while.
Of course, the silence was broken when Carmen Grant and her good friend and Permanent Reminder labelmate, TJ Cousins - also known by his stagename, Kidd Amaze - announced that they were leaving the label that rapper Matt Young had founded to start their own. Many people spoke out about their opinions on Grant and Cousins starting their own label, most critics siting that Carmen and Kidd Amaze had no experience in the music management world. Carmen shot back with her own response, saying that their choice to start their own label was a "healthy jump in their careers," asking for everybody to be nice to each other, and comparing herself and Kidd Amaze to poop. In Carmen's own weird way, it completely made sense, and brought a bit of peace of the situation. Two months later, the label's website was launched, and Cousins and Grant began their search for artists. Again, many Carmen Grant fans feared that this would be the end of Carmen's music career, afraid that she would dedicate all of her time to the management side, and neglecting the musician side of the business. This song seems to be the answer to all of their fears.
With "Kick This Rage," Carmen Grant returns to music with the same coquette-ish nature that her music has always. As so many of Grant's song are, there's a musical focus on the acoustic guitar throughout the song, adding a very comfortable feeling to the song. Her voice is uplifting the entire song, even in some of the less playful verses, keeping with the flirtatious, but naive, individual that Carmen has always portrayed herself to be. This song does, however, focus more on the child-like side of Carmen's personality that she rarely shows in her songs - although she has shown it many times throughout her career when talking to interviewers, fans, Twitter, and audiences. She starts off by asking the person that the song is directed to to each her how to play the game he's been playing. As innocent and child-like as that sounds, most Carmen Grant fans know that no matter how adorable something may seem in a Grant song, there's almost always a darker side to it. Grant wastes no time getting to the darker side of her request, revealing in the second verse that there's a dangerous side to this game their playing, as Carmen asks the person how to "play it safe." It's becoming more and more obvious to most listeners that the game that Carmen is asking how to play isn't simply a game, but most likely a metaphor for something less simple - love, sex, manipulation. It could be a number of things.
The short chorus of the song seems to add more confusion to what Carmen could possibly be talking about. The first time lines of the chorus sound like she's still talking to a child, asking them to count to one hundred to calm down, and then to catch up with her soon - like they were playing a game of tag. But the last two lines of the verse seem much more adult. Carmen asks her friend not to "kick this rage out" just yet, and that they'll have opportunity to work that rage out that night, "under the moon." This is the line that leads many listeners to believe that the song is about something of a sexual nature, although Carmen has been very strict about not telling any of her fans what songs are truly about, afraid that she would keep people from finding her music relateable if she always told them what the song was about, rather than letting them come up with their own interpretations. The next verse in the song talks about an interaction between Carmen and the friend that she's singing to. Carmen tells her friend that she found them in the hallway, where they said that they wouldn't call her again. Carmen doesn't offer much background as to what she's talking about in this verse - a huge change from her songs from her previous releases, where she offered a lot of details about her past, making her debut album almost a complete open book on her young adult life. But in this particular verse, the listener can assume that Carmen is the reason why this person has so much rage - maybe an ex-lover or just somebody that Carmen has hurt in some way. The friend says that they won't call Carmen ever again, but Carmen tell the listeners that in the Fall of that year, she got a call from that very person. She repeats, "There's nothing to say, here it comes," twice, emphasizing that neither of them feel that they need to apologize, and neither of them really have anything to say to the other - until now.
Carmen gets to the root of the song in the next verse, asking her friend how to play his heart. She repeats the same pattern that she has adopted with the other verses, finishing it with saying that she won't be giving his heart back to him. This confirms for many people that the game that Carmen is singing about in the beginning is something of a romantic or sexual nature. Whatever problems the two seem to have with each other, Carmen is determined to let her friend "work it out" tonight with her, and in doing so, Carmen is hoping to win her friend's heart. It's another Carmen Grant love tale.
Teach me how to play this game
And I'll play all the time
Oh, I'll play the whole night through
Yeah, I'll play around with you, too
Teach me how to play it safe
And I'll play all the time
Oh, I'm safe the whole night through
Yeah, I'll be safe around you, too
We'll stay calm and count to one hundred
Just stay quiet and catch up with me soon
Oh, but hunny, don't kick this rage out
We'll work it out tonight, under the moon
I found you in the hallway
You said you wouldn't call
But then I heard your voice that Fall
There's nothing to say, here it comes
There's nothing to say, here it comes
Teach me how to play your heart
And I'll play all the time
Oh, I'll play the whole night through
No, I won't give it back to you
We'll stay calm and count to one hundred
Just stay quiet and catch up with me soon
Oh, but hunny, don't kick this rage out
We'll work it out tonight, under the moon
We'll work it out tonight, under the moonSOUNDS LIKE:
M. Ward - Vincent O'Brien
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