Told and delivered with a morose and melancholic arrangement anchored by a piano, Sadie Nix’s aching ballad “Oblivious” is a powerful song about heartbreak, but not about breaking up. It’s about mourning the loss of something that never manifested, that never had the chance to be what it could have been. There’s something so much more painful about that kind of loss, that “what may have been” feeling that cuts even deeper and more incisively than the fresh wounds of a breakup itself.
Sadie Nix’s vocals steal the show on this track, a powerful and impassioned delivery that really steers the ship of this contemporary pop ballad more than most could possess. It’s as poignant as it is painful, passionate as it is powerful, plaintive as it is poetic. This Brighton based songstress is clearly on the way to something much larger than where she finds herself today. “Oblivious” will have you tearing up in no time.