Ami Leigh – Caught in the Middle: Country-Kissed Pop Devotion –

In Ami Leigh’s Caught in the Middle, the emotional core comes straight to the surface as she captures how love changes the way you move through the world, from the oxygen you breathe to the way your senses tune themselves to someone else. She holds the rapture of romantic infatuation without softening it, letting the feeling shape the entire track. The country-pop aesthetic, carrying that nuanced tilt towards 90s and early 00s singer-songwriter nostalgia, pulls away from the vacuousness of washed-out contemporary pop. Instead, everything arrives with a veraciousness that gives full honour to the sticky-sweet sincerity threaded through the release. Her writing never hides behind restraint; she allows the sentiment to stay vivid, open, and bright.

The Americana motifs add a warm spine to the arrangement as the winding guitars move around the steady acoustic chords. They spool through the track with a quiet timelessness, giving her vocal delivery room to take its place at the centre. That presence creates the real distinction. There is a clarity in the emotion that refuses to blur, shining with an authenticity stronger than the polished edges often found higher up the pop ladder.

The story behind Caught in the Middle follows two people so deeply absorbed in each other that the world outside becomes background noise. The spark for the track grew after witnessing the sheer force of Erika Wennerstrom in an intimate Manchester room, where her voice carried a weight that felt almost startling up close. That moment fed into the sentiment of this single, shaping the emotional lens that keeps the narrative locked in its own small universe.

Caught in the Middle is now available on all major streaming platforms, including YouTube.

Review by Amelia Vandergast