Layton Greene EP review

Layton Greene EP review
Katya Tiffany

Layton Greene, raised in East St. Louis, Illinois, has been pursuing her music career since being rejected from both “X-Factor” and “America’s Got Talent.” Instead of quitting after the rejection, she pushed even harder to become a professional singer.
Before the release of her own music, she went viral in 2019, with the release of her first single, “Leave Em Alone” (ft. Lil Baby, City Girls, and PnB Rock). The single accumulated over 85 million views on YouTube and gained a lot of positive attention.
In her new EP, “Tell Our Story,” Greene shares a new music video to accompany the urban soft pop feel of her new song, “I Love You.” The song mixes an urban beat, synthetic sounds, and a soft bass line to create a sentimental mood in the beginning.
The theme is reminiscing as she shares a true experience of one of her past lovers.
“I just was real dependent on him. It should never be like that,” said Greene.
The music video accompanies the song and shows a couple that is in a happy, loving relationship, but as the song and video progress, the couple’s relationship grows unsteady and gloomy, with the boyfriend eventually leaving Greene for another woman.
The woman and the now ex-boyfriend are then shown through the rest of the video living a dream life, getting married, having baby showers, and raising children, while Greene watches from a distance regretfully.
Her lyrics, ”I was under the impression you were real with me, was it all a lie, was it just fantasy,” show her struggle to understand what went wrong in the relationship while Greene and her boyfriend are shown arguing and fighting before the final split.
Greene goes on to sing about how she was not able to leave the relationship easily because the boyfriend would beg her to stay and she could not bring herself to leave.
Greene’s story through the song is a relatable situation to many young girls in relationships. It gives them the message that they should not be afraid to leave a relationship if they feel it is toxic.
Her overall message is, “It’s okay not to be okay sometimes. It’s okay to go through stuff,” and she does a good job conveying it in her music. The music video also does a good job of depicting Greene’s experience of the relationship and her feelings and emotions throughout and after the breakup.
The song deserves at least a 3.5 stars out of 5 and the music video is worth giving a listen to.

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