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San Diego singer/songwriter Tristan Prettyman has released a new poignant music video for "I Was Gonna Marry You," the fourth single off of her just-released brand new fourth LP, "Cedar + Gold," which is Prettyman's definitive breakup record and most obviously, "I Was Gonna Marry You," is paint a damn clear picture of exactly what happened. With both personal and universally relatable, the melodies will stick in your head and tug at your heart.
Prettyman is one of those special singer/songwriters who knows exactly just how to capture an emotion and reel you in! It seems the 30-year-old songbird drew a lot of inspiration for her music from her previous engagement to fellow singer-songwriter, Jason Mraz. Her folk-flavored voice captures a carefree, California-style coastal sound and her songs have memorable hooks that celebrate love in all its forms.
All that she's gone through has definitely provided the material for a solid album, on which Prettyman delves into the pain endured with the end of her engagement to Mraz, and she sings with an apparent honesty that is liberating. It's not unusual for an artist to find inspiration in heartache. What Prettyman accomplishes on “Cedar + Gold,” however, is unusual because she sings from her broken heart with a voice that is absent of anger. Instead, there is both fragility and strength, retrospection and introspection, and through it all there is love.
Prettyman has a lot on her mind and expresses it in "I Was Gonna Marry You." Prettyman's spins beauty from her pain, and the melancholic chord shifts of her guitar carry her voice naturally. From the slow melodic sounds of the piano and the guitar, the song is beautiful and heartfelt with a lot of raw emotion, which is reflected well in the video, which puts the spotlight on an engaged couple who eventually break up when the groom-to-be gives his leading lady a heartbreaking note explaining that he can't go on with the relationship any longer. As the initials they carved into the tree on their camping trip fade away, so does their relationship.

Tristan Prettyman just released the music video for her latest single, "My Oh My," the lead single off her upcoming third studio full-length album, "Cedar + Gold," and fans can expect to hear it in full on September 25th. The 30-year-old breezy San Diego singer-songwriter told CBS Local it's a song about "this journey through your first love." and in the clip, a relationship is stylishly portrayed as a 'The Cat And Mouse Game,' literally. Click through to hear swaying her love-is-the-drug rocker.
Prettyman has been making beautiful music since a young age when she found her father's guitar and promptly borrowed it. She was inspired to write and perform by one of her musical idols Ani DiFranco and began playing at clubs and cafes in her native California. Soon she was tapped by Jason Mraz to accompany him on tour. From there her music gained more and more exposure and a large fanbase of music lovers who like her laid-back, poignant musical style. Breaking up is hard to do, but I imagine "hard" is an understatement when you or your ex are in the public eye. She dealt with this struggle after splitting from fiance Jason Mraz last summer.
"My Oh My" is an intimate song that chronicles her struggle with being attached to someone in the deepest way, yet he keeps showing back up in her life. She can never cut him completely out and fighting to escape their "spell." Prettyman further revealed how the song details the cat and mouse game of a relationship gone wrong. "The whole song is this journey through your first love and breaking up and thinking you'll never see him again and there's no chance and then they come back into your life. And you're like, 'Oh man, I still like you. What's the deal with that?'" she said.
"Why do we keep going back to things that aren't good for us? How much is going to be enough? How hurt do we have to get to get over it finally?" Fascinated by being in the presence of someone that makes your heart skip a beat, Prettyman learned from her own mistakes while writing the song. "Writing that song made me more aware of the situation that was actually happening," she said. As far as finding closure within her current single, Prettyman is still trying to figure things out. Watch the Jay Martin-directed clip below as she tries to escape the cat and mouse game once and for all.