LAVL's "Misguided" is the midnight anthem for the beautifully misunderstood

In "Misguided" (the title is pronounced Luh-Vel), the group leans full into the hour when silence sounds loudest and the things we never really said seem to echo hardest, and in the process delivers one of 2019's most powerful and emotionally resonant first salvos. LAVL knows how to turn romantic confusion into emotional focus, and "Misguided" is proof of that. It's not loud and dramatic, yet it is real, raw, human, and deeply resonant. This is the type of song that gently draws you towards it. 

LAVL calls the track "not bitter, just aching," and that nuance lands like a punch. The production is tight in the best way, no overblown drops or heavy-handed effects. Instead, it allows the lyrics to breathe, for the emotions to take hold. This hurt doesn't shout, they suggest, it just lingers." The vocals are fragile and weighted, a fine complement to the song's message: that pain doesn't always scream sometimes, it just lingers. And maybe that's what makes "Misguided" so quietly powerful. It's not trying to be the next big pop anthem but the song that goes on when you're driving by yourself, running over conversations that you may have never gotten to have, when you're trying to figure out if maybe it was you who loved wrong, or if they just never really worked hard enough to see you.

"Misguided" is about abandonment that doesn't stem from shouting matches and slammed doors, but from being silently misunderstood. It's the slow fade, the hurt at not being fully known by all that you were once so intimate with. And LAVL makes no pretense of obscuring it behind metaphors or distractions. And if you've ever felt like your love was lost in translation, or like you arrived for love only to be rendered invisible, "Misguided" could be the song you didn't know you were waiting for.

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