{"id":10029688,"date":"2022-03-21T09:27:49","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T13:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vanyaland.com\/?p=10029688"},"modified":"2022-03-21T09:27:51","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T13:27:51","slug":"lainey-dionne-takes-control-of-toxic-relationships-on-video-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vanyaland.com\/2022\/03\/21\/lainey-dionne-takes-control-of-toxic-relationships-on-video-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Lainey Dionne takes control of toxic relationships on &#8216;Video Game&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Be warned: When you play <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.laineydionne.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Lainey Dionne<\/a><\/strong>, you&#8217;re only playing yourself. And when you press play on the Rhode Island native&#8217;s new single &#8220;Video Game,&#8221; you might finally realize you&#8217;ve been the villain all along. Fresh off <a href=\"https:\/\/vanyaland.com\/2021\/08\/31\/this-stream-is-tonight-lainey-dionne-dishes-pop-smarts-on-self-titled\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">last year&#8217;s<\/a> wonderful <em>Self Titled<\/em> album (which included a fiery dose of pop wizardry in &#8220;Wake Up Call&#8221; that we highly recommend ICYMI), Dionne dropped her new single over the weekend (March 20), and it&#8217;s all about being trapped inside a game controlled by a significant other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But Dionne is quick to remind us that the heart is not something to be played with. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;&#8216;Video Game&#8217; is about feeling hopelessly stuck with someone,&#8221; Dionne writes. &#8220;You want to leave the relationship but you are manipulated into staying time and time again and you don&#8217;t feel strong enough to leave. There is a shift and you realize you don&#8217;t deserve toxic and controlling behavior. After struggling for so long, you find the strength to stand up for yourself because you will never win in a situation like that, so you quit &#8212; which is the best thing you can do.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She adds: &#8220;Toxic relationships have a way of changing you, making you think you&#8217;re inferior, making you think you can&#8217;t leave &#8212; but you can. I hope this song is a reminder that you are never trapped, and you can control your own destiny.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All solid advice, packaged perfectly in a pop song fueled by empowerment. Press play and fire it up below. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe style=\"border-radius:12px\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/0ILPl28y0yi9F9gvMTs2oo?utm_source=generator\" width=\"100%\" height=\"80\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">***<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Video Game\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ajeu6Kyk9FU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Be warned: When you play Lainey Dionne, you&#8217;re only playing yourself. And when you press play on the Rhode Island native&#8217;s new single &#8220;Video Game,&#8221; you might finally realize you&#8217;ve been the villain all along. Fresh off last year&#8217;s wonderful Self Titled album (which included a fiery dose of pop wizardry in &#8220;Wake Up Call&#8221; that we highly recommend ICYMI), Dionne dropped her new single over the weekend (March 20), and it&#8217;s all about being trapped inside a game controlled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10029689,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,64,15066],"tags":[30563,19912,9378],"class_list":["post-10029688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-boston-news","category-music","category-providence-news","tag-lainey-dionne","tag-new-sounds","tag-video-game"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is 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