Rachel Chinouriri
What A Devastating Turn of Events
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Code red and brace for impact as Rachel Chinouriri delivers a single with sad sad lyrics. Based on a true story about a girl of a similar age, Rachel channels the sadness into a story that looks at the relatable emotions of the situation.
Musically, the song has a muted feel with a simple beat, bass, and acoustic guitar. There’s a little electric strum in the thicker sections, but overall it’s kept cut down to minimal elements. Over this, the vocal has room to manoeuvre, using some interesting rhythms in the delivery of the lines.
I think with every step of her journey, someone somewhere can understand the feelings she felt to some degree. Whether it’s to do with relationships, friendships, neglect, motherhood, depression, rejection, battling internal hatred or suicidal thoughts.
I feel like this is something most people can relate to. The decision to take her own life is something many people have contemplated and her life was almost the perfect storm to create that environment which is heartbreaking.
Without the right support or understanding around you, people can feel trapped and it’s sad she ever made this choice. Her story deserves to be told and I hope more people know that this is a feeling that many people have felt and you should always ask for help.
Rachel Chinouriri
Rachel’s debut album is out on 3rd May 2023.
Listen to Rachel Chinouriri – ‘What A Devastating Turn of Events’.
What A Devastating Turn of Events Lyrics
Woo-hoo, woo-hoo, woo-hoo, woo-hoo, woo-hoo
(What a devastating turn of events)
Woo-hoo, woo-hoo, woo-hoo, woo-hoo, woo-hooA recommendation from a friend of a friend
Took a follow then a little DM
She was tempted, never had a lover
(Woo-ooh-ooh-ooh, ah)
She hesitated but she’d seen him before
He asked her out and she couldn’t ignore
So excited, another world to discover
(Woo-ooh-ooh-ooh, ah)Oh no, God damn, I wish she’d known back then
The beginning to the end was near
But lust was in the air
Getting giddy as she tells her friends
FaceTimes till 2:00 AM
What a fascinating boy she didn’t choose
But she’s got nothing to loseTwo heads in the morning bed
Felt a little foreign, but she didn’t regret
She was lonely, couldn’t tell anybody
(Woo-ooh-ooh-ooh, ah)
He said all right things and it got to her head
She felt a feeling that she didn’t expect
In the moment, she didn’t want anybody
(Woo-ooh-ooh-ooh, ah)But him, she’d planned
A wedding in her head
With who she thought would be her man
Her charming till the end
All she wanted was a kid, a fam
Oh, goodness gracious, damn
What a complicated view far from the truth
Then here, here came something newWoo-hoo, woo-hoo, woo-hoo, woo-hoo, woo-hoo
(What a devastating turn of events)
Woo-hoo, woo-hoo, woo-hoo, woo-hoo, woo-hooThree weeks on, then he left her unread
A morning sickness and she knew it from then
She’d be crying in despair to her mother
(Woo-ooh-ooh-ooh, ah)
Out of wedlock which her family despise
But if she lost it, it would still be a crime
Now she’s crying from the sight of her mother
(Woo-ooh-ooh-ooh, ah)Oh-oh-oh-oh
Oh no, God damn, I wish she’d known back then
The beginning to the end was near
Still hope was in the air, in her desperation
Life’s unfair for women where she lives
What a disappointing world she didn’t choose, with a man’s ego to bruiseSpamming messages with tears in her eyes
Little did she know, it’d be the day that she’d die
In the kitchen, eating things that she shouldn’t
(Woo-ooh-ooh-ooh, ah)
She woke up dizzy under hospital lights
Her poor mother had the shock of her life
When the doctors said they tried and couldn’t
(Woo-ooh-ooh-ooh, ah)Woo-hoo, woo-hoo, woo-hoo, woo-hoo, woo-hoo
What a devastating turn of events
I wish she’d known back then
All she wanted was a lover, her friend
Woo-hoo, woo-hoo, woo-hoo, woo-hoo
What a devastating loss we didn’t choose
She’s in me and she’s in you(Woo-hoo, woo-hoo, woo-hoo, woo-hoo, woo-hoo)
(Woo-hoo, woo-hoo, woo-hoo, woo-hoo, woo-hoo)
What a devastating turn of events
(Woo-hoo, woo-hoo, woo-hoo, woo-hoo, woo-hoo)
All she wanted was a lover, her friend
(Woo-hoo, woo-hoo, woo-hoo, woo-hoo, woo-hoo)
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