POP PIECES: "Midnight in the City" Review
On “Midnight in the City,” Jaime Deraz releases a gorgeous burst of painful emotion, using New York as both backdrop and emotional engine.
With her broken heart on her sleeve, Deraz pulls listeners into her past, back to a time when her eyes still had color and her love still felt requited.
New York has long been Deraz’s favorite lyrical canvas, and here it functions like a public transportation system for feelings: intimate, crowded, and impossible to ignore. “Midnight in the City” reads like a message meant for one person but delivered through a place loud enough to swallow it, and the song’s mission is clear. She wants her truth to finally be heard, without SoHo noise drowning it out.