My Garden Kat Dahlia Analysis

Kat Dahlia is a name you’re going to want to remember.

Her debut album My Garden was released on January 13, 2015 and it is all I have been able to think about for the past couple of days. The album is just as eclectic as you would expect from a Cuban-American singer-songwriter who raps. The opening track, “My Garden” greets you with her raw vocals that make it difficult to listen to anything else. The album itself takes you through an emotional journey that Dahlia’s lyrics make certain you connect with. “I Think I’m In Love” is the first song that I listened to off of the album and with lyrics like, “When you say give me your hand/Baby I'm falling/I hope you catch me when I land” she captures the emotions of falling in love in a beautiful and familiar way. Dahlia wrote or co-wrote all but one of the songs in this album and while listening to it that fact is hard to miss. She writes in an unapologetic fashion that I can’t help but admire; with every note on every song you can feel the journey that was taken for this album to come to life.

I feel like I’ve been listening to the same music for far too long and Kat Dahlia’s My Garden is a wonderful addition to my playlist. When I first listened to this album I was surprised that I enjoyed it as much as I did (enjoyed may be an understatement, I haven’t stopped playing it in two days) because it’s not the type of music that I tend to enjoy. Surprised as I was, I couldn’t stop listening to it because Dahlia’s gritty lyrics have a way of grabbing your attention, no matter what music genre you typically enjoy. In “Mirror” she makes a connection with the listener because she makes herself relatable while discussing the reality of attempting to realize your dreams “We all just chasing a dream/In the land of the free/While we paying a fee/to stay on this