A 21-year-old singer/songwriter from Westport, Connecticut wants to create a connection with her fans by expressing her emotions through her lyrics in a way that listeners can visualize the situation. This situation is a cold shower, and her name is Chelsea Cutler.
“Cold Showers” is Cutler’s eighth song on her second album, “Sleeping With Roses II.”
In it, she sings about a moment that occurs often the lives of young adults: having to snap yourself back into reality and pull yourself together.
Annotating the song herself on Genius.com, Cutler explains the meaning behind the lyrics “I take cold showers to remember I’m not with you / I leave with someone else to act like I don’t miss you / I can’t pretend I won’t give in / I hate myself for giving you the things I give you / When I know that it’s over.”
“I liked the concept of splashing cold water on you face to snap yourself back into reality,” she said, “and I thought cold showers were kind of a bigger statement on that same concept.
“‘I hate myself for giving you the things I give you when I know that its over’
I think I struggle to create boundaries, which is probably confusing for people. I wanna give all of myself, even when its not right to. And then I think I’m being stupid and I pull back and thats probably tough.”
This experience is not foreign to anyone that struggles with handling how to get a grasp on their emotions, or how to ensure control of those emotions to begin with by not giving away all of themselves.
Cutler sings the narrative of young adults who are just trying to figure out life, relationships and everything in between.
She sings about the beauty that is a break down.
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