Olivia Terpin Immortalised Fleeting Love in Her Bitter-Sweet Ornate RnB Ballad, Stay Like This

New Jersey-based powerhouse vocalist Olivia Terpin used her cinematic dream of a seminal single, Stay Like This, to capture the bittersweet recognition that the only certainty in life is change, breeding the desire to hold moments in the bliss of stasis. The orchestral piano-driven ballad is pure, euphonic, emotive intensity, despite the restraint she deploys to transform this aching orchestration into one that leaves you hanging onto her every word. Terpin guides listeners through a painfully relatable narrative arc; taking them from affectionate bliss to the reclamation of independence away from someone they never truly knew—only ever the version that person wanted them to see. Echoes of 00s RnB Pop (à la Christina Aguilera) oscillate through the production, yet when Terpin allows the crescendo to cascade through your speakers, her vocals match the visceralism of the instrumentals while the blues guitars navigate their own emotional death throes. In these moments, it’s clear she will never need to skate by on assimilation; she’s a siren of filmically ornate RnB Pop soul. Fresh from her recent recognition at the Eastern Region NATS competition, where she ranked among the top 15 nationally, Terpin is on an unflinching mission to disrupt the trend of […] The post Olivia Terpin Immortalised Fleeting Love in Her Bitter-Sweet Ornate RnB Ballad, Stay Like This appeared first on A&R Factory.

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New Jersey-based powerhouse vocalist Olivia Terpin used her cinematic dream of a seminal single, Stay Like This, to capture the bittersweet recognition that the only certainty in life is change, breeding the desire to hold moments in the bliss of stasis. The orchestral piano-driven ballad is pure, euphonic, emotive intensity, despite the restraint she deploys to transform this aching orchestration into one that leaves you hanging onto her every word. Terpin guides listeners through a painfully relatable narrative arc; taking them from affectionate bliss to the reclamation of independence away from someone they never truly knew—only ever the version that person wanted them to see. Echoes of 00s RnB Pop (à la Christina Aguilera) oscillate through the production, yet when Terpin allows the crescendo to cascade through your speakers, her vocals match the visceralism of the instrumentals while the blues guitars navigate their own emotional death throes. In these moments, it’s clear she will never need to skate by on assimilation; she’s a siren of filmically ornate RnB Pop soul. Fresh from her recent recognition at the Eastern Region NATS competition, where she ranked among the top 15 nationally, Terpin is on an unflinching mission to disrupt the trend of […]

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