Carrie Baxter Lands An Instant Classic With ‘Loved You Before’

Whether you call it chemistry or love at first sight, the sensation of feeling comfortable around someone you just met —a complete stranger —has to be explained by some chemical equation. The instant passion and the always sought-after emotion of hopeless romantics is what inspired Carrie Baxter to harmonise over with her new single, ‘Loved You Before.’

The silky blend of jazz, neo-soul, and R&B, combined with Baxter’s confessional storytelling, creates a blissful assonance. ‘Loved You Before’ manifests as a soft, ever-so-telling forehead kiss, the skin electrified with every touch, and the moment when silence sounds like passionate yearning. Carrie Baxter follows up her previous single, ‘Under My Skin,’ with ‘Loved You Before,’ both highlighting her soulful side, laid in the velvet foundation of her vocals.

‘Loved You Before’ is an instant classic, meant for all the hopeless romantics, and Carrie Baxter’s soul is all over it. The Irish singer-songwriter opens up about her own experience with going all in on intense connections, and the importance of slowing it down; she says: “I’m a hopeless romantic at heart, especially when it comes to connections that feel instant or familiar. So I guess this is a love song, those early, honeymoon-phase kind of feelings. Although with hindsight and years of therapy, I’ve had to learn to slow down when I meet someone new, take the rose-tinted glasses off, and be mindful of the filters that show up in the connection.”

The simplicity of the accompanying ‘Loved You Before’ video portrays the loud, yet quiet passion between two people. When everything moves in slow-motion and words are replaced with unbreakable eye contact. Carrie Baxter is tender and intentional with her movements as ‘Loved You Before’ plays in the background, subtly caressing their sense and heightening the indescribable feeling into something as simple as the tranquility of a Sunday morning.

Carrie Baxter is one of those artists you will be bragging about knowing before the whole world is obsessed with her. Her voice is luxurious, carrying an old-soul energy with a twist of modern life. Along with ‘Loved You Before,’ Baxter masters her voice best suited for a vinyl and the stage of an arena.