By: Julia Ristoska

With the title being “Baker Baker” I was expecting to listen to a sweet love ballad about a girl falling in love with her local baker. With valentine’s day around the corner I guess I had the sweets on my mind. Let’s be real though what girl wouldn’t like to have a man to bake her cakes and cookies? When Tori sang the first line “Baker Baker baking a cake” I was full of anticipation to hear the love story unravel.

As I was listening I quickly realized that the sweet song I was hoping for became bitter. Tori’s soft and airy voice puts you in a reflective state and makes you go down memory lane, and it’s not a happy memory either. During her interview with The Baltimore Sun she said “I think with Baker Baker, to deal with a man that truly loved me, but that I wasn’t emotionally available for.” Her remorse on her past relationship is definitely heard through her voice. Her voice hits centre stage and over powers the acoustic- like quiet piano ballad. The way she pushes out her long notes are full with emotion that digs deep in from her heart, and pours out of her mouth.

It’s almost as if Tori is talking to her past lover from a distance. She is on a journey to find out what happened to him as she ends with “And I wonder if he’s okay if you see him say hi.” Her one way conversation ends unresolved, but she is in no way searching for him anymore. Maybe she was feeling apologetic and wanted to meet with him once more to “make her whole again.” Or it could be that she is too anxious to even revisit the past, and instead she chooses to be stuck in a dream-like state of mind.