Drawing us in with a contemporary pop soundscape and pristine vocals, Greg Germain opens Cloud Highways with the visually stimulating lyrics, “Bare feet on the dashboard, endless summer in your eyes, you laugh and all my past lives line up, bow and say goodbye…”
We immediately connect with the journey that we are being taken on and Greg’s poetic prowess. The production is dreamy and euphoric with a cinematic allure. In essence, the song paints love as a kind of spiritual escape.
It brings to life notions of a feeling so intense and consuming that it is detached from ordinary life. Greg and his lover exist outside time and consequence. It is the embodiment of a transformative experience.
The relationship is so sublime that it wipes away old pain and regrets. Even the uncertainty becomes beautiful. Instead of fearing the unknown, we are invited to embrace it because love itself is the destination.
It also showcases love as a spiritual experience – something holy, even if it might be reckless or morally complicated. That’s why the line “If this is wrong / Let it all stay wrong” matters so much. Eventually, the “wrong turns” becoming “salvation” and show us how we learn and live through our mistakes.
We learn that Cloud Highways marks a return to music for Surinamese-Dutch artist Greg Germain, who stepped away from his art for three years following the loss of a close friend. We are glad that he is back, and we love the cinematic allure that Cloud Highways manifests. We could imagine the track being featured in a film like The Perks of Being a Wallflower in one of its emotionally weightless youth-and-freedom moments, or in a TV show like Euphoria during a dreamy montage of reckless romance and emotional escape.
Needless to say, we are in awe, and have added Cloud Highways to our New Music Spotlight playlist, and our TIMELESS playlist, whilst we anticipate future releases from Greg Germain!