“….You enter into a situation with someone and it’s all fun and games and nothing serious. Then like a thief in the night you have feelings of confusion and attachment. And although the unspoken rule that ‘it’s a casual situation’ play around in your head, you cannot deny what you feel inside.”
From ‘kickin’ it’ to ‘friends with benefits’ to ‘hooking up’ to ‘Netflix and chill’—-they’re all phrases to describe what’s known as a ‘situationship,’ a term that captures the non-official status of two people who are otherwise participating in, ahem, official couples’ conduct. Developing deeper emotions for one another can complicate the arrangement, which is what performer Elisha LaVerne is singing about in her newest CD’s first official single, “Catching Feelings.”
In a ballad that’s as fragile and moody as the predicament itself, LaVerne sings sweetly of the casual ‘chill mode’ that the two fell into, how both partners are loathe to involve anyone else yet seem reluctant to move forward. “Feelings” is a cool, contemporary groove about the social media-era dilemmas of dating that could build more of an American fanbase for this ambitious overseas artiste.
Elisha LaVerne – “Catching Feelings”
