On October 18th, 2024- Vilamoura released their newest single “Morning Star” ft Notions. The combination between the cleans and the heavy vocals is so intense. The second the song started; I was hooked instantly because everyone knows my weakness is clean vocals and Johnathan’s has some of the best cleans I’ve heard in a long time mixed with Josh’s heavier vocals making this release one of my favorite metalcore songs in 2024! “Morning Star” reminds me of Volumes, Nevertel, and a little bit of Can’t Swim. The cleans, heavier vocals, and the rapping parts of the song causes the song to be a complete mayhem in the best way possible. Makes me want to personally get into the pit and caused chaos and at the same time scream the lyrics until I have no voice left.
“Was it not enough or just too late; Was there anything that could’ve made you stay; as I try to keep your eyes awake; The reality invades; Part of me escapes” The beginning lyrics hits very deep because you can automatically sense the song is about loss and most of us understand that unwanted feeling. And when the vocalist sang the last two lines; he meant that once you realize you lost that person a part of you disappears. And I relate to that part because once my best friend died 6 months ago; I noticed a part of me left and I haven’t been able to fill in that empty void.
“Can you feel me through the static” Blurring out what is left of me” Eating away at everything” sinking further, prove the damage” No matter what you do or say” You’ll never get to me” The way I interpreted the chorus lyrics is that the person refuses to let anyone in. That’s why the vocalist’s stated “Blurring out what is left of me” to prevent anyone getting close to them maybe due to fear. Also stating that no matter what people say to this person; they won’t allow them in.
“My soul is now an open book” Like is that what you want” Now every part of me is vulnerable” Causing me harm” My past has left me as a shell” The way I look at these lyrics is that after experiencing something traumatic, sometimes you do open up more which makes you feel vulnerable. And you feel like you’re harming yourself because you start thinking if you allow yourself to be an “open book” horrible things would come your way giving you those irrational fears that are not truly there.
“At its core, “Morning Star” is about feeling paralyzed by irrational fear. It tells the hypothetical story of a boy who just watched his partner kill themselves in front of him, and the song tries to articulate the mental breakdown of realizing that part of your life is gone and realizing how much of your identity came from that part of your life, wondering why it happened, etc. The story is inspired by a web novel I read recently that triggered a realization about some irrational fears I have regarding my own life that stop me from fully investing and trusting in the people around me, and from being able to take risks to develop my bonds with others. I worry at times that if I let myself get too comfortable with the idea of my life existing a certain way, the universe will naturally take that reality from me, and I’ll lose a part of who I am and won’t know how to cope with that loss. Morning Star is a painted picture of that scenario unfolding before me, and an elaboration on how difficult I find that situation to navigate and why, through the expression of a worst-case scenario” – Johnathan Sotomayor (Clean Vocals)
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