Review: "It's Not Me Who's Missing You" - Nina Caroline
- Tessa Maddaloni
- Jun 18
- 2 min read
In a taste of her upcoming EP, Nina Caroline releases “Its Not Me Who's Missing You”, a single dropped at the end of May. Throughout this track, Caroline details the realization behind the need for a breakup, that she has lost herself in the relationship and is no longer being true to what she stands for. She paints the scene of two young kids driving around, him professing his “demons” and her willing to accept them, thinking they would never come back to hurt her. However, as the plot develops it is clear that she is not even herself anymore, and that the version of herself that misses him is long gone. She is able to separate herself into two versions: the one with him who loved him and (regretfully) misses him, and the one who has moved on and healed, and looks back with a laugh.
Nina Caroline’s track has two main plot points: telling the story of their relationship / demise, and explaining how she has grown and no longer misses him. This track’s sound is simplistic and yet extremely well produced. It starts with just Caroline’s soft voice and a light drum beat keeping pace, which grows in anticipation until the chorus. Once it reaches this part of the song, it slows in sound and goes quiet for a moment, and then explodes into a newfound electric guitar riff as well as the original drums. In the chorus, she sings, “What if it's not me who's missing you / But the version of myself I was with you / I swore I would never let you in / But somehow you got under my skin / Oh it's not me who's missing you”. Throughout the track, she laughs at herself for thinking this could work, that even for a minute she had let herself believe that he wouldn't drag her down with him. The bridge and outro bring this idea home, with the bridge being a chaotic layering of her original thoughts as well as current, and the outro being an echo-y and soft repetition of the chorus, highlighting Caroline’s emotive vocals and sadness that this had to end this way.
Nina Caroline first picked up the guitar at age 9, and since then has never stopped. Developing an indie-singer-songwriter vibe, she states that her music has “Holly Humberstone's pop appeal and Lizzy McAlpine's folk influences, with warm The Police guitars and summery 70s Fleetwood Mac vibes”. She blends all of these various styles into a melting pot of one amazing sound, with her own soft vocals and descriptive lyrics to tie them all together. Stay tuned for her upcoming EP, and make sure to follow the social medias below to follow along for more music from Nina Caroline.
Written By Tessa Maddaloni
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