Review: "Please Don't Hate Me For This" - Jess Ball
- Taylor Sheridan Lempke
- 1 day ago
- 2 min read
Jess Ball wraps the tension between her flaws and loving someone with gentle guitar and soothing vocals in “Please Don’t Hate Me For This.” The tricky part of relationships is the risk of honesty, and how it can hurt the people that we love. For Ball, it’s a balance between loving herself and letting her emotions flow while protecting her partner. While candle-lit dinners, night walks on the beach, and coffee shop dates are part of relationships, the argument over movie night is just as important. The tension may be uncomfortable, but what counts is growing from it. Ball acknowledges her flaws. She sings, “Some things that I say don’t land…But you’re the best I’ve ever had/ Please don’t hate me for this.” Her humanity and vulnerability are what keep their relationship alive. And it lights up the song.
“Please Don’t Hate Me For This” feels like the slow tide towards honesty, during that beach night walk. Ball’s voice is as soft as a summer evening breeze, relaxing without the bite of the winter chill. The trust in her lyrics thrives in the velvet texture of the vocals. The slight reverb on the electric guitar lends motion and fluidity to the song, much like gentle waves. It’s perfect for rolling the windows down and catching the wind or spinning to the music. Ball provides a rare type of tune, where you can sit and feel it or dance and sing along, just like the phases of a relationship.
Jess Ball is a singer and songwriter from Melbourne, Australia. She found a love for music in 2009 when she was 11 years old. Since then, she has created songs with elements of pop, indie rock, and hip-hop. Her inspirations are Cigarettes After Sex, Olivia Dean, and Massive Attack. On social media, she posts her own music as well as covers of her favorite artists. In 2020, her third release, “I Found You (Neptune)” landed at Number 1 on the Future House Beatport Charts and Number 38 on SiriusXM’s Electro top songs of the year. In October, she released her single, "That Way." Stay tuned on her socials as she continues to create indie-pop music.
Written By Taylor Sheridan Lempke
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