Helen Maw - Playing With Fire
Helen Maw a 24 year old singer/songwriter from Liverpool is an accomplished musician, writing music since her teens and performing in the UK and even as far as Madrid. Her classically inspired pop tells honest stories with a sense of raw emotion, connecting with her listeners through the stories she tells through her lyrics.
Helen released her first single Your Little Secret in June 2019, receiving radio play on BBC Introducing Merseyside and Mersey Radio. Her latest EP Everything in Between was recorded and released during lockdown in April 2020 and was also given radio play by Mersey Radio where she was also named Artist of the Week on April 20th 2020.
Currently Helen is working on her debut album which she hopes to complete this year, in the meantime she released her latest single Playing With Fire today, Saturday 8 August.
When asked about the track Helen said:
The track is a story of having your heart broken but coming to the realisation that you are not defined by other people and they way they mistreat you. This song is one of the most personal songs I have written and I believe that this comes through in the music. My aim with my music is to tell stories of life and relationships and the things that go on around me. I try to make my music relatable to the people who listen to it and I want it to resonate with people.
Playing With Fire is a piano based ballad, it has a strong orchestral arrangement, with the addition of strings and percussion used throughout the song helping magnify the poignant heartbreaking lyrics which are sung from an achingly personal perspective.
The simple arrangement suits the track, it creates an engaging melody which then allows the outstanding vocals to shine through. Helen sings very emotional and heartfelt lyrics which describe the break up of a relationship and the need to define oneself, the opening verse perfectly describes that pull another person may hold on you when she sings “now you said you wanted me too, you said you wanted me more but what did you want me for, I can barely breathe without you, when you’re gone I feel empty too, so what are we gonna do”.
and that sense of being unable to break free from a relationship comes to the fore in the chorus with the words “cos you got me locked up in chains and you got me wanting to stay, like I can’t be real without you”.
Playing With Fire is a great song and should continue to attract attention from local and national radio, give it a listen and enjoy the brilliant vocals of Helen Maw, it’s certainly a name to remember as her reputation as an artist will only grow with outstanding tracks like this.
Give Playing With Fire a stream now:
https://open.spotify.com/album/5f2SBUhxtUWCiVsoLKmgvh?si=MWXWhf17RMW0jqL2TAxB_Q
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