Belén Mc Menamin unveils sweet melodies and complicated feelings on latest release “Just A Crush”

Belén McMenamin’s latest release, “Just A Crush” sweetens, bitters, and beautifies romantic fixation. A bedroom-pop song that combines jazzy warmth and retro harmonies with a soft, upbeat melody and lyrics about an unhealthy infatuation. The narrator knows what this feeling is doing, confessing, “But you’re just a crush / An unhealthy foolish love,,” yet still dreams of making it real one day. That tension is what makes the song charming, the music gentle, the emotions restless. “Just A Crush” is that weird sweetness of having a crush on someone you already know, who takes up way too much space in your head.