Alexa Villa - Own It
Los Angeles-based pop-rock singer-songwriter Alexa Villa recently released the video for “Own It,” via Sign From The Universe Entertainment.
Alexa Villa
Commenting on the song, Villa says, “I wrote this song about taking ownership of a situation and taking charge of your life regardless of circumstance or pushback. I really feel that attitude is everything and can get you far. This song is a reminder to myself of just that.”
She goes on to add: “I was inspired by the Spielberg story and how he supposedly got his start by sneaking into Universal and commandeering an unoccupied office.”
Written on a piano in Alexa’s home studio, the song was later rearranged for guitar, bass, and synths.
It’s one of those “strong” female voices, tough, melodic, and voluptuous, all at the same time.
Originally from San Diego, Villa’s music career started when she was 7-years-old, with piano lessons and performances at school talent shows, local recitals, and theater shows, playing with her parents’ band and her brother’s band. Since then, she’s performed throughout the West Coast, including the Warped Tour, sharing the stage with The Darkness, Drake Bell, Alexander Jean, Mark Ballas, and Ryan Cabrera, along with others.
In her interview with Patrick Hickey, Jr. of Review Fix, Villa described her sound: “I’d say my sound is a cross between Joan Jett and Gaga. It’s sweet and salty, cotton candy bubble rock. It’s an organized picture of all the messy goings-on in my head.”
“Own It” opens on gospel-flavored vocals, “walk like you own it,” and then flows into a ferociously powerful pop-rock melody full of snarling guitars and a swaggering, swanky rhythm. Villa’s searing, rasping tones infuse the lyrics with muscular tones and femme fatale textures. It’s one of those “strong” female voices, tough, melodic, and voluptuous, all at the same time.
A low-slung breakdown, full of latent metallic guitar riffs shifts the harmonics into low-gear, followed by stomping on the gas pedal, as the tune ramps up to brawny surging energy.
“Own It” sizzles with sonic muscle rife with potent guitars, a hefty driving rhythm, and the luscious tumescent tones of Alexa Villa.
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