Emotive and intimate piano playing sets the perfect mood on the intro to “Flowers” from LA’s Stasi. As the instrumentation blooms and Stasi begins singing it becomes apparent this isn’t your typical Americana love ballad, though it hits all of those marks well. Stasi’s voice has all the soul of a singer from a generation past while the song contains all the poetry of a singer-songwriter. The final verse opens with, “You always confused me, like some type of movie where the story never resolves// but I sit through the credits and tell you I get it so I guess that it’s kind of my fault.” Which has the lilting lyricism you could ask for from a sweet and somber tune.
“I wrote flowers about a situation-ship that feels like one long string of heartbreaks. Of being with a person who doesn’t want you, they just want somebody. And of knowing how they feel, but not wanting to accept it. I didn’t write the final section of the song until it was over, when I could finally appreciate that I was a participant in the breaking of my own heart,” says Stasi.
