M’Lynn’s Wasted On You sounds like heartbreak laced with satin. An infectious R&B groove with echoes of 90s soul, it dances between vulnerability and groove-heavy defiance.
Her vocals, warm and unguarded, curl around lyrics like “put all my cards down, lost on the player” and “you put up the cookie and I bite,” giving the track a conversational intimacy that stings in slow motion.
It’s not so much a break-up song as a slow unravelling—rationality colliding with instinct, as she admits, “I wonder why I never seem to get it right.”
The bassline is slick, the percussion buttery and restrained, and that retro guitar lick running beneath it all feels like the ghost of a late-night confession you play on repeat.
Even in its most painful admissions—“messing with my mental and destroy my health”—there’s something impossibly smooth about the way M’Lynn delivers it.
Wasted On You pulls you into a loop of regret that somehow makes you sway. Not quite closure. Not quite chaos. Just that familiar in-between.
Perfect for when you’re done pretending you’re over it, but still vibing anyway.
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