I Didn’t Walk Down The Beach In A Trance

Simone White “I Didn’t Have A Summer Romance” – This song was originally written and performed by Carole King, who sang the song with the declarative melancholy of a person who very much wants you to notice that they are sad and is fishing for some consolation. Simone White’s version is a bit more straightforward. Her voice is soft and she lacks King’s assertive edge, making her come across more like a traditional wallflower. She plays the character as someone who is just painfully lonely, and is heartbroken by her lack of heartbreak, and exhausted by living vicariously through friends and fiction. She doesn’t seem bitter or overly depressed — if anything, she just seems like this easygoing person who truly appreciates romance and intimacy, but rarely gets her shot at it. You hear the song, and you imagine this girl, and I think you’re supposed to feel something like “wait, why didn’t anyone tell me about her?” Whether or not you actually had a summer romance, you start to wish just a bit that it had been with her. (Click here to buy it from Amazon.)