Single Review: Happy

Talented young native of Nelson, Emma Common (Emma Rose) has forged ahead with her music recently creating an EP of three songs for the final project in her degree in Bachelor of Commercial Music at Massey University. Happy is the opening track to her Elderflower EP, which due our early 2021.

Emma has a strong diverse sound with beautiful melodic vocals and an obvious talent for song writing. Happy is a very cleverly thought out and constructed piece of music, matching up the challenging subject matter of being in an unhappy relationship with an abusive person to upbeat sounding music, with the thinking that it may make it easier for people to open up to these types of conversations.

With that in mind, the contrast between the lyrics and sound took a while to sink in. Once it did, the concept of the whole track made sense, the flow between dark and light a very clever and powerful idea.

Emma’s wide range of skills and her musical background has conceived the conceptualization of this remarkable first single Happy and what I am sure will be a distinctive debut EP.