SINGLE REVIEW: VIC ALLEN - WAKE UP PRETTY

Dec 22, 2024
2 min read

After a summer that started so brightly ironically with "Bad Weather", it feels like ages since we've heard from Vic Allen however thankfully she's back with a new single "Wake Up Pretty".

"Wake Up Pretty" is a song that will undoubtedly resonate with many, it calls out the supposed "Idealised perfection" that fills social media and magazines for what it is and sheds light on the damage that it does.

"Red lips, tanned skin, flawless

I don't wanna stare

But she moves just like a goddess

Hands in the air and well

I can't compete with the girls here tonight

I hide in the bathroom, pretend I'm alright

Then catch my reflection again"

The insistent chorus nails home each line and really brings home the insidious nature of the problem,one that can't be washed away by someone saying "hey you are beautiful" if the person on the receiving end cannot believe it to be true.

"If the world stopped to tell me that I looked the part

I'd smile and say it was just blinded by stars

And if you tried to make me believe it was true

I'd wish I could see things the way that you do

I've got dreams that somehow and someday

I won't hate the girl staring right back at me

That I'll take off the make up and wake up pretty"

Almost certainly Vic's most important release to date - she has really tapped into a universal feeling.

"Oh, too tall, too thin

We just can't win

Always compared, criticise what we wear and now

I've done the same myself"