Romanticism

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Hana Vu’s 2024 album <i>Romanticism</i> finds the singer stuck between two worlds, eager to embrace maturity and adulthood while wishing the relative simplicity of childhood was still available to her. It‘s a thread that weaves throughout her guitar-driven fourth album, which is built around infectious melodies, incisive lyrics, and moments of solace and triumph that comfortably intermingle. On the project’s first single “Care,” Vu’s opening refrain is an almost audible sigh. She sings: “I'm waking up to the sun and I find it all too much/Oh, here we go, another day, another name I can't bring up.” On “22,” acoustic guitars build against Vu’s powerful voice as she yearns for simpler times. The nostalgia is nearly palpable, but it’s never saccharine. She croons: “At the bar and they're playing our song/It sounds like summer and white guitars.” The chorus is deceptively emblematic of the entire album, stuck between the joy of growing and the lingering impostor syndrome that comes with it. “I'm just getting old/I'm just 22,” she adds.

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