Def Jam Recordings signed Alessia Cara as her hit 'Here' climbed the charts and eventually ended up as everyone's favorite unofficially party song. Even though the song is clearly about not fitting in with the added possibility of avoiding going to parties. With Alessia Cara's debut album "Know-It-All" pulls in the focal point about being an teenager headed towards adulthood as a musician. Or more importantly growing up in a world where humanity has more warning symbols based on people's expressions than on food labels.
'Seventeen' draws from experience that part is clear as crystal. As far as the Pop standard goes for musicians Cara addresses personal issues as a well thought out discussion. A kind of realization "Is this happening to anyone else?" With Cara beginning to answer the very questions that puzzled the songstress at 'Seventeen' now a twenty year old...has gained insight. From beginning to end the track develops a hopeless attachment to the essence of clinging to the sweet in-between of childhood and adulthood. 'Seventeen' marks the just age were one is still too young to do certain things while the world willingly opens up before our youth.
Cara's most endearing question is about being able to freeze time at 'Seventeen'. No need to rehash out old issues but to keep hold of family, friends and the seasons changing as quickly as a mood ring.
What marks 'Seventeen' as a great Pop song is the fact of the quizzical side of the song's lyrics. Honest, fearful, hints of regret and yet this is what each individual goes through growing up. With the act of accepting time moves faster as we age even at the young twenty years of age as Cara herself is now. It shows tremendous respect as well as reflection on a generation that has been deemed otherwise unrealistic.
