Single Review - Maybe I Don't Need You - Roem Baur

Push play. Drum roll. Guitars. Roem. 

Roem Baur's newest single, Maybe I Don't Need You is a trip to listen to. The first listen though the song was exciting. Maybe I Don't Need You has a different vibe to it than Roem's last single Natural Disaster, which was more rock-y. Maybe I Don't Need You is more pop/rock-y, with a hint of leftover disco-funk, more mid-80s Michael Jackson, but of course in the greatest way possible. 

In this lyrically deep song, we get caught up in the music, tempo and flow of the song and don't notice the words, until you stop and listen to them of course. Loneliness, breaking up, the it's better to be lonely apart than lonely together aspect of ending a relationship: 


I don't need you to tell me what to see 
cause I believe you see things different than me 
I don't need you tell me what to feel 
Cause when I needed you, you disappear 

Can you feel the chill of change 
Your own two feet feeling mighty strange 

Maybe I don't need you 
Maybe I don't need you 
I might be the lonely one 
but that's better than a lonely two 
but you're gonna be lonely, yes, you're gonna be lonely 
too... 


I don't need you to reply or tell my why 
Cause you're running from all your alibis 
I won't take you tellin me how I make 
every mistake, you turned into a fake 

Can you feel the chill of change 
Your own two feet feeling mighty strange 

Maybe I don't need you 
Maybe I don't need you 
I might be the lonely one 
but that's better than a lonely two 
but you're gonna be lonely, yes, you're gonna be lonely 
too...

This song really has it all, though I think the guitars and the horn section are my favorite parts (love me a horn section.) Roem Baur is artist who deserves attention. Stop what you're doing and go get this track, and Natural Disaster here: http://roembaur.bandcamp.com/  and if you happen to know anyone in the radio biz, bug them incessantly to play these songs, get the name, and the music out there.