The track sees the artist begin to establish her vulnerable and engaging writing style and sound.
On her debut release ‘Call My Bluff’, Isabel Dumaa has immediately established herself as an indie pop voice that is primed to work her ways into your playlists and your mind.
The track has a confessional, conversational feel that immediately establishes an emotional connection with the 18-year-old and her lush sound. The track details the ways that we look to set ourselves apart and feel like an individual as a teenager or young adult, and the quirky little things that we will do to seem a bit different or give us a sense of uniqueness. Ironically, the track has provided the artist with a real opportunity to set herself apart, and she has done so with an affable sense of charm and deftness that has earmarked the name Isabel Dumaa as one to keep a look out for.
As Isabel details:
“I write in cursive ’cause it makes me feel smarter,” came to me one day after leaving school. I had left my computer at home and had to hand-write part of an essay, and I did so in cursive. I asked myself why I chose to write in cursive and looking at the writing, I realized it gave me a sense of distinctiveness and individuality, regardless of the words I put down. Even though I didn’t feel confident in the essay, the cursive made it feel better. That idea became the basis for this song. Later that year, I moved to LA and found myself experiencing feelings of inferiority and doubt. Yet, I found myself doing little things or putting up different facades that would make me feel better about myself, or at least appear so. I wanted to write a song that encapsulated that feeling of imposter syndrome and conquering it.
