{"id":13883,"date":"2012-12-03T17:10:50","date_gmt":"2012-12-04T01:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=13883"},"modified":"2012-12-03T17:15:39","modified_gmt":"2012-12-04T01:15:39","slug":"watch-jessica-lea-mayfield-sing-a-new-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2012-12\/watch-jessica-lea-mayfield-sing-a-new-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Jessica Lea Mayfield Sing a New Song"},"content":{"rendered":"

We love the detached delivery of singer-songwriter Jessica Lea Mayfield<\/strong>.\u00a0 Despite her stoic but simmering stance in song, there’s always a line or a look that gives her away.\u00a0 Take, for example, her song Sometimes at Night<\/strong> in which she opens with these lines: \u201cI broke the little cabana boy\u2019s heart, to let you fondle me in the dark; one of those city outdoor motels, in your bed swore I never would tell.\u201d\u00a0 She’s got a bit of Dashiell Hammett<\/strong> or Raymond Chandler<\/strong> in her.\u00a0 Song noir, if you will.<\/p>\n

And now Mayfield’s done it again.\u00a0 A new video has been released of her singing a new song entitled Do I Have The Time To Do The Things I Wanna Do When You’re Away<\/em><\/strong>?\u00a0<\/em> The song’s title gives the impression it’s by a woman anxious for a break from her lover.\u00a0 But you quickly surmise that instead the song is from the perspective of a woman obsessing over that lover and demanding to know where she stands in the relationship (“So if you don’t see what you need in me, then let me go\/know”).\u00a0 And then after a few strums too many, out-of-the-blue Mayfield let’s the other shoe drop:\u00a0 “Let me know, so I can let this chair beneath me go.”\u00a0 It’s unnerving stuff, made more so by Mayfield’s placid, but world-weary, delivery.\u00a0 Long live Jessica Lea Mayfield.<\/p>\n