Without being a single, ‘VICTORIA’ has been one of the best received songs on Barry B’s latest EP, ‘Infancia Mal Calibrada’. This has been totally embraced by the Arandino public despite its acoustic and reflective character. Or perhaps, thanks to it. It’s the Song of the Day.
“The sad ones always work,” Gabriel Barriuso told us in his last interview with JENESAISPOP. ‘VICTORIA’ has a lot of sadness, but it is also comforting to see ourselves in some way in Barry’s lyrics: “Sometimes I feel an immense emptiness / I guess it’s something normal / Nobody prepared me to understand life / I just try to live it,” he sings in the second verse.
In ‘VICTORIA’, the Arandino artist reflects on his own career and where it has taken him. “I speak in a strange accent / Since I came to Madrid,” Barry sings in the chorus. At the same time, it has an existential pain point as real as life: “It’s normal for my stomach to turn / Thinking that I could die tomorrow / Without you by my side.”
The song is made up of few elements, mainly guitar and synthesizer, and it works perfectly this way. In the last part, a crescendo mantra that also features drums and violins, Barry lets the light in: “Everything I’ve achieved so far / I know it didn’t have a reason / But now that I’m living this with you / I know there was always a reason.”
