For many years she wrote songs only for herself, sometimes showing them to her parents. In her room she created stories and images, slowly bringing a song to a bright chorus. For her, to write a song that you yourself will fall in love with is a special feeling that brings true pleasure and joy. Meet Lexi Shroll – a singer, songwriter, and a sparkling blonde from Nashville, whose creativity breathes with sun, freedom, and genuine sincerity. She has already managed to collect awards for her songwriting, perform at popular venues, and make the audience fall in love with her voice, where fragility and strength balance with rare grace.
Lexi Shroll is a keeper of emotions, which hide in the melodies and lyrics of her songs. I have no doubt that many, after listening to songs performed by Lexi, will easily recognize themselves in them. Her first single “Malibu” is the most personal song she has ever written. It has everything: the sweet dizziness of a first love, a light sea breeze, the sun that makes you want to squint your eyes and remember this moment forever. Genre-wise, the song can be attributed to modern pop country, a style that is actively developing in Nashville and combines the traditions of American country with accessible melody and open emotionality of pop. It is exactly this that makes Lexi’s music close both to those who love authentic “roots“ and to those who search for radio hits for summer playlists. Lexi works with mood: she subtly conveys the ambivalence of emotions, the bright sadness for the departed summer and the joy from the memory of it alone.
The tonality, the texture of the arrangement, and the “vanilla-caramel“ vocal of Lexi remind that summer always slips away, but leaves behind an ambiguous feeling, in which joy, sadness, and light euphoria are mixed together. The song is about the feelings that flare up in the memory of a person who once was the whole world. And yes, the title hints at that very coconut rum Malibu – just as sweet, alluring, and slightly intoxicating as the memory of happy days. Even if Lexi’s life goes another way and her career changes, she will never stop writing music. It is a part of her. Songs are the greatest love of her life.
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