Brittney Bouchard Releases Debut Record

Growing up in the shadows of Disney world, Apopka, Florida native Brittney Bouchard, who now makes her home in Los Angeles, is more at the beginning of her career than she is at the middle and yet songs such as her original tune “Addicted To Heartbreak,” from her debut self-titled EP suggest a promising future for the singer-songwriter.

“One of the coolest responses I have (received) about the record is from a fan who tweeted me and who said, ‘I love the record. After every song that I listen to, I say that is my favorite song and then the next song plays and I say that is my favorite song and the same thing happened throughout the entire record,” says Brittney Bouchard and it reflects the way Riveting Riffs Magazine hears this record as well.

“The song, “Addicted To Heartbreak,” was one of the last songs that I wrote and it was a co-write. Jonathan Maham is a co-writer with whom I have worked several times and we really hit it off. We have written several songs together. We also wrote “Gone Forever,” which is on the record. We started writing the lyrics to “Addicted To Heartbreak,” over a text message. He was making fun of me and of my love life, so half of the song that we wrote (comes from) when we were typing back to each other. Now I wish I had saved the text message. I was in the studio with him a few days later and we wrote the song,” she says.  

“I hate New York City, because it reminds me of you / Don’t say you miss me, if that’s all you’re gonna’ do,” introduce us to the acoustic guitar led song “Holding My Breath,” in which the singer reminds her lover that it has been six months and seventeen days that she has been waiting for him to come to her in L.A. The title of the song is drawn from the deep rooted feelings manifested in holding her breath and biting her tongue, while waiting for love.  It is a beautiful, slow moving song that speaks both to heartbreak and to the sometimes reality of long distance relationships.

“I wrote “Holding My Breath,” at four in the morning. It is one of those weird things, you wake up in the middle of the night and you have this song in your head, so I recorded it on my IPhone. I was in a long distance relationship at the time and that never seems to work out so well. I just had the feeling of waiting for things to go the way that you really want them to go and in this case it was waiting for that person to move to L.A. and as you can tell from the song, you know where that person lives. It never really worked out and it is a horrible feeling, but it created a really beautiful song and I am thankful for that situation, even though it sucked at the time. It’s funny, because your heart doesn’t decide. Your heart just goes, oh that person and you are what??” says Brittney Bouchard.

“Gone Forever,” and “Down Down Down,” are also relationship songs, with the former tune holding the most appeal for young girls and grown women alike, as one can easily imagine them singing along with Ms. Bouchard, while she laments, “Something’s going wrong / I don’t understand  / Why you made me fall in love / I’m holding on / Now You’re giving up / I don’t understand / You told me we belong together / I’m still here / But you’re gone.”

Brittney Bouchard begins the fifth song on the EP, “Smoke Clears The Room,” with a little more grit in her vocals. “This was a fun one that I wrote with my friend Curtis Murphy. It is the feeling that you have when you have had a fight with someone and (in this moment) you are in a fight with your boyfriend. It is that feeling of I just want it to clear. The anger, the anxiety and the fight is over. There is still that cloud in the room. “Smoke Clears The Room,” is about that feeling and you are just waiting for it to pass. Once it passes you know that you are going to be okay,” she says.

Talking to us from her home in Los Angeles, Brittney Bouchard says, “I have these CDs on my bedroom floor and I am looking at them right now and I think this is so cool. I never thought I would get a chance to do this.”

We are glad that singer – songwriter Brittney Bouchard did get a chance to record this EP. She is an artist to keep your eyes and ears on. Her EP releases on I-Tunes November 13^th.

Please visit the Brittney Bouchard website.

Reviewed by Joe Montague

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