There’s a quiet urgency that washes over me when I hear Yvonne Ambrée‘s new song “Elusive.” It’s a deep, melancholic melody that seems to resonate a truth we all grapple with – the constant flux of relationships. Like the ocean, forever reshaped by the tide, our connections with others are in a perpetual dance of change. We cling to the comfort of a familiar dynamic, a specific feeling, only to be met with the undertow of impermanence.
“Elusive” resonates because it acknowledges the pain of that yearning. The desire to hold onto a specific version of a relationship, a friendship, a love – it’s a yearning that can lead to a quiet sorrow. Yet, within the song’s melancholic beauty lies a profound wisdom. Accepting the ever-shifting nature of connection allows us to embrace the complexity, the bittersweet reality that growth and change are inevitable. It’s a reminder that even as relationships evolve, the essence of that connection, the shared experiences, the love, can still remain.
She says: “ELUSIVE is about human interaction and all the subtleties of being close to someone to being strangers or moving away from each other. Sometimes a loved one gently slips out of sight and the reasons for a shift in fondness and understanding are hard to grasp. It’s easy to hold on to a memory of a feeling even though both know something is slowly dying. In the second verse I am saying: ‘Two bodies in a cage of glass, waiting for who’ll break it first. A tale of two, two bodies in a dream. The present is motionless, the past kept in a fortress…’. There is a bittersweet ignorance combined with a yearning for happier recollections of the past. I’m sure many people have experienced love as well as friendship or romance fading out of view. ELUSIVE explores some of the stages during and right after the realization of a human encounter shifting in shape.”
Yvonne Ambrée is a professional musician, producer, mixed-media and collage artist, and music video editor. She was the German lead vocalist for Disney’s Encanto, and has worked with Sleigh Bells, Ann Sexton, Gwen McCrae, and others. Born in Germany, she lives and works between Brooklyn and Berlin.
photography by Cate McCall
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