Tiny Listens #26 (Olive Jones - Nobody Knows)
Olive Jones - Nobody Knows
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TINY LISTENS 0026 • September 8, 2024
Olive Jones - Nobody Knows
I am always grateful for new musical discoveries.
Late last year Olive Jones' music somehow managed to find itself to me.
All her music seems seems as if she’s broadcasting straight from a vintage radio buried under six feet of nostalgia, with that crackly, intimate vibe like it’s trying to tell you secrets the world isn’t ready for yet. There's a delicate push and pull between her ethereal voice and the minimalistic production that makes songs feel like it could dissolve into thin air at any moment—but never quite does. They cling, staying with you.
Nobody Knows is a kind of song that cuts deep, not because it's loud or brash, but because it is intentionally quiet. It's an intimate conversation you have with yourself at 2AM picking at old wounds. The song channels the weight of self-doubt, blending fragile vocals with minimal production that feels like it’s holding its breath. There’s a tension in the silence, as if every pause says just as much as the lyrics themselves.
It never wraps up with an affirming resolution, or trite phrase to make everything better. Loneliness lingers without resolution. Instead the end wrestles with the sense of being lost in a crowded world, invisible and unheard. The refrain—delivered with aching repetition—feels like a personal mantra, one that you whisper to yourself when nobody else is around.
You sit still. And still, nobody knows.
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