“Game Over” by Liv Charette

Liv Charette is a pop singer-songwriter from Canada who now resides in Nashville and has been dubbed a “powerhouse vocalist” by Rolling Stone. She competed in figure skating for 11 years before deciding that singing was her true calling. She traded in her skates for a microphone after performing in front of an audience for the first time. In addition, Liv’s weekly “Liv: In the Moment” podcast, the first of its kind on RIFF, has featured guests who are influencers, gamers, recording artists, music industry executives, celebrity makeup artists, and more since it became popular on TikTok with her Tiny Mic series “One Word Song Challenge”.

Liv was requested to play at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in October 2021 to commemorate Tina Turner’s induction and to introduce the museum’s most recent digital series. With her brand-new song “Game Over”, pop artist Liv Charette is delivering an epic victory. “Game Over” is a powerful throwback that blends contemporary pop music with a strong vocal performance from Charette, as well as an undeniable swagger and vintage Midway Arcade look.

“I’ve been a huge video game fan forever and believe that sometimes relationships are just like those games you grew up playing,” Liv Charette says. “Once the person you’re with runs out of lives (or chances), it’s time to say ‘game over.’”

It’s a beautiful kiss-off song, and according to Charette, it’s thematically the ideal follow-up to her song “Red Flags White,” which is about remaining in a toxic relationship due to denial. Charette strikes the ultimate blow and ends things this time around. In the second line, Charette sings, “We were good, we were great, we were heroes,” Charette sings in the second verse. “But all along you were just using cheat codes.”

The song’s co-writers are Charette and Jason Mater, the latter of whom also serves as producer. “I suggested the idea to Jason when we were writing in LA and he brought the song to life with a track that includes some amazing nostalgic game sounds,” Charette says. “The lyrics turned it into an anthem for telling someone that you’re winning by ending the relationship.”

The song also has a music video that draws inspiration from the Pop Up Video programme on VH1 in the 1990s. In it, Charette moves through an arcade while cartoons that appear on the screen flash interesting information about her, her love of video games, the song, and other things.

In large part due to, as described by The Wild Is Calling Us: “her vocals loaded with strength, confidence, and conviction”, Charette’s new song continues to garner accolades. In her brief time on the scene, the girl described by Rolling Stone as a “powerhouse vocalist” has certainly drawn plenty of positive attention!

Listen to Liv Charette – Game Over on the link below

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