Review: "Wedding Date" - Casey McQuillen
- Lauren Nolan
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Casey McQuillen continues her 2025 hot streak with her latest single, “Wedding Date.” “Wedding Date” tells the story of a brief rekindling with a love from your past during someone else’s big day. The track is grand and cinematic. With sweeping bursts of orchestral instrumentation and lyrics rich with detailed imagery, “Wedding Date” is utterly captivating. It’s the type of song that—-even with such a specific setup—-encapsulates universal experiences of love and loss. “Wedding Date” captures the hope for a relationship doomed to fail with a devastating, yet beautiful honesty. McQuillen’s pen has never been sharper than on “Wedding Date.”
“Wedding Date” proves Casey McQuillen as one of our best up-and-coming songwriters. The level of precision and empathy laced within her lyrics is staggering. Every aspect of the story she tells, from the narrator’s thought process to the scenic imagery of the wedding occurring in the background, is fully realized. It’s so easy to get sucked up in the world Casey creates. The lyrics of ‘Wedding Date” alternate between clever and lyrical to simple and poignant. Lines like “I know the end before we begin,” during the bridge, carry a massive emotional punch. “Wedding Date” is a delicate yet weighty track that leaves a lasting impression long after you first hear it.
Within the past six years, Casey McQuillen has achieved a lifetime’s worth of accomplishments. Ever since her viral breakthrough on Season 13 of American Idol, the singer-songwriter has forged a massive impact on the music industry. Based on her passion for mental health and anti-bullying advocacy, Casey created and showcased the “You Matter” Tour to over 50,000 students across the U.S. and U.K. This garnered her support from the likes of the Kelly Clarkson Show to the UN Foundation. Her debut album, Skinny, was featured on the public playlists from Apple Music and Amazon Music, and has been downloaded over 500,000 times on Spotify. Recently, Casey has continued headlining her music on a sold-out year-long tour across Europe and America, alongside artists Anastacia and Loreen. Casey McQuillen’s career is just getting started, and you can listen to “Wedding Date,” on all major streaming services now.
Written By Lauren Nolan
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