"When I was Five" by Claire Bowditch Review

One day, I watched the movie According to Greta and heard a fantastic song. I began searching for it online, but instead of the search lasting a couple days at the most, it took me about a month to find it. I heard the song only once and I was hooked, and now I’m hooked on Claire Bowditch, the singer, altogether. She has a fantastic voice that is calming and soothing, and in her song “When I was Five,” mournful.

The song is about how she lost someone when she was only 5-years-old and wishes she could have stopped it from happening. We will all go through that feeling at some point in our lives, and Bowditch says it all for us. She lays her emotions out bare in the song, and I definitely appreciate her as an artist for showing us how human our emotions can be.

A great artist shares common emotions between him or her and the listeners, which is what Claire Bowditch does. We can feel Bowditch’s pain and agony in losing a loved one. “When I was Five” is a remarkable piece of work that needs to be shared.