Some songs do more than tell a story they bring you there. JILIAAN’s debut single, “Love Like a Movie,” is one of those rare tracks that sounds like it was filched from the final, tear-stained scenes of a movie you can’t get out of your mind. The song embodies love in motion, that yearning, fleeting, and indeterminate state, with its ghostly classical underpinning and democratic high-low pop-ballad makeover.
Deriving its beauty from the mournful sublime of a Chopin Nocturne, JILIAAN’s piano melodies provide half an agonized pair with her string orchestra and cavernous, soul-churning singing. Each line is a subtle devastation, the toll of distance and time settling into each word. “If I say goodbye, would that be the end of you and I?” she asks a question hanging over it all like an unsolved riddle. Written while she was relocating from London to Berlin, Love Like a Movie is both a farewell and a meditation on the love that remains when everything else moves on.
JILIAAN isn’t just dropping a song; she’s unveiling a sound that melds past and present, mixing classical grandeur with visceral, contemporary emotion. If “Love Like a Movie” is any indication to be followed up by her forthcoming EP, it sits like a breathtaking journey through nostalgia, longing, and reinvention.
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