Review: "Weather App" - Ariana Fig
- Azalea Withrow
- 10 hours ago
- 2 min read
A modern romantic indie pop ballad, "Weather App" analyzes adding someone's city to your hub of online weather tracking. Fig explores, as she puts it, the "strange intimacy of checking in on someone through a weather app, the song blurs the lines between self-validation and unhealthy attachment." The weather app serves as a vessel to feel connected to a long-distance lover by stepping into their shoes, knowing what weather they're experiencing and what time they'll see the sunset. Fig exemplifies this in her lyrics: "so I know to call when it rains...I added your city to my weather app, so I know when it's safe for you to drive." Sticking to identifying the complications that the internet can have on forming new romantic connections Fig repeats, "somewhere on the internet you said you adored me." She explores how the access our generation has to all the details of each other's lives is a double-edged sword that can cut down or sharpen our relationships.
"Weather App" is just the most recent single that channels Fig's classical instrumental training into a new blend of pop sound. During her first co-writing session with Emma Whale at the Catherine North Studios in Ontario, “Weather App" emerged. Fig's vocals are accompanied by guitar and bass tracks that shape the soundscape without taking attention away from her illustrative lyricism. The instrumentation on the bridge includes Fig's own violin playing. The use of reverb and moments of echo in the piece reflect the murky space between real connection and the illusion of true relationships especially those that take place online.
Ariana Fig is a receiver of the SOCAN’s Honorary Young Canadian Songwriter Award for her song “Running Man,” as well as funding from FACTOR and The National Arts Centre of Canada. Trained classically in violin, Fig applied her musical knowledge to singing and songwriting. Currently at work on her debut album, "Weather App" is the second single release of 2025 for Fig. Her upcoming album will be released under her own label, FigTree Records. Fig is just getting started melding genres to create her signature sound. You can catch her playing at the Sound of Music Festival in Burlington, Canada this June or, wherever you stream music.
Written By Azalea Withrow
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