Blending lo-fi beats with the hard-hitting combo of hip-hop and rap, The View has layers of meaning that Liam Mera Kai hopes his listeners will identify with. Taking influence from artists like Bakaar and Paulo Nutini, it is obvious Liam has an appreciation for a range of styles, and that can be heard in this single. With his adaptive vocal abilities, the UK artist achieves a union between serenity and disruption, changing the flow of the track to imitate the transition from agitation to peace.
Always searching for something bigger and better can be met with disappointment, but Liam’s single gives the reassurance that many lost people need. The fear and uncertainty of not knowing where you’re going in life is daunting, but the artist urges us to go headfirst because once you’re in, everything is fine. Saying “how am I to know?”, he embraces unfamiliarities, finding strength and success in vulnerability.
The View captures the typical human habit of overthinking and overlooking the beauty in front of you. With poignant lyrics, the singer and rapper uses rhetorical techniques to reflect his inner doubts singing, “am I the right one to enjoy you?” questioning his worthiness. We need to stop being envious of other people’s views because they weren’t made for us. However, Liam realises this doesn’t mean you aren’t worthy of being there or seeing this view, just that there is somewhere else you are meant to go. Spreading the message of not worrying about other people’s accomplishments and not degrading yourself, the singer wants us to be content in the present and hopeful for what is to come. Surely, he feels the same about his future as an artist after this new and earnest single.
