Prience Moore in his recent single, What Would You Do, creates a place where the listener has to sit and listen to the silent side of a conversation. The song was created as a result of a conversation with a long-time friend, so full of emotion that it needed to be put into verse. Moore is able to capture that distinct, ubiquitous pain of starting a relationship under the expectation of everlasting bliss to be cut short by the vagaries of life. Attention to the words preceding the tiniest note being played allows him to make the message not get lost in production as a reflection to people who have to endure their quiet storms.
A healing through creativity happens here to an extreme degree. Moore tells that he was weeping as well when he presented the completed versions of the lyrics to the friend he had been inspired by and she could not think of anything to say anymore. This is a crucial act of putting a heavy, possibly unspeakable feeling into a structural apartment in a song. It argues that the first move in the process of going through our internal struggles as opposed to being engulfed by it is giving it a name and a melody.
This personal technique also reaches the mental health stigma of the artistic world. A pressure to appear the part of a smooth and invincible exterior so often exists, but Moore opts to do the reverse. Making What Would You Do all about crude human feeling and relationship aftermath, he warrants the need to be not okay. He does not see vulnerability as a weakness that he would have to remove by editing it out, but rather the core of his art and he would invite a culture in which artists have the courage to talk about their mental and emotional conditions without fear of being judged.
The work of Moore is a reminder that the greatest weapon that an artist can have is his/her honesty. His devotion to the lyric-first method is an experience of grounding in a world of high-gloss tracks and manufactured personas. It is a lyrical quest on how to remain present even when one is broken-hearted and it is true that sometimes the most disruptive thing that one can do as a creator is just to state the truth.
Prience (Prince) Moore is a Seattle artist in the United States, who believes in the power of a word rather than the pound of a drum. His artistic journey is characterized by a change of thought: when before he was convinced that the beat was the soul of a song, he works now on the basis of the belief that lyrics should be the centre of the creation. This disarming attention to bare, heart-rending narration enables him to chart the depths of human relationships to which is given a rarity in the music of our times. Recorded under Michael Miller Productions at Unlimitedtalents, Moore has devoted himself to the embodiment of the real emotional terrain of relationships, as experienced in his recent original composition.
