On their new single, "My Jealousy," the Washington, DC duo Little Minutes delivers something as close as it is creepy. Whipping song prose with a delicate, teetering balance of openness and critique, the track peeks into the quiet anguish of measuring oneself against celebrities' glossy, filtered lives, a feeling that many experience but few will openly own.
At the heart of Little Minutes, you'll find Lena Esposito and Chris Brownelle, a pair of songwriters who truly get the art of subtle storytelling. The sound of "My Jealousy" skews toward a brooding indie-pop style known for constantly crossing genres evocative in tone, also dreamy and a touch melancholic, cinematic in delivery though in a gentle way. It's that kind of song that gets into your head and stays there, not with big, shouty choruses but with a weight of words and emotional precision.
The brooding instrumentation and aching vocals find a delicate balance, bristling with a smoldering intensity at a slow burn. Lena's fierce voice propels the story with painful honesty. You can feel the stress she's singing about, the hushed gnawing of staring at someone else's highlight reel while enduring your behind-the-scenes torment.
The combination of skeletal beats and shadow-gray melodies sounds like your brooding self walking through a drowning city, longing to be someone else, with someone else's pictures touting an apparently perfect life on your phone screen.
In an era of lives crafted to perfection and influencer culture, the song is about how quickly respect turns into envy. But there's no shame here, only candor. "My Jealousy" does not slink away but instead makes you sit with it, squirm in the best way, and then force you to recognize the emotional cost of yearning for a life that was never yours. With "My Jealousy," Little Minutes keeps demonstrating they are writing experiences. And this one is gorgeously haunting.
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Reviewed by LyricalOdyssey Music
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May 26, 2025
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