Driven by a vocal performance that’s magnetic from start to finish, Emily Nicole Green’s striking debut on “It’s Gonna Be Okay” introduces to the world a songwriter and performer who’s got passion, emotion, and depth. The touching folk melody, driven by a simple acoustic arrangement, is well and truly carried and given life through Green’s powerful and empathetic vocal performance. It feels innately well weighted, offering solace, understanding, and warmth when the notes and words demand them.
Written as a rather general ode to all of us grasping for silver linings and caving within ourselves as we see things implode around us, “It’s Gonna Be Okay” is that light in the midst of the darkness to let you know that there is something to look forward to at the end of it all. Everything that seems to be burning down around us, both personally and societally, is all transitory. There’s love to be found and life to be had.