“Too Many Feelings” by Ruel

You can’t help but to feel sorry for the singer (Ruel) after going through the heartfelt narrative featuring within this “Too Many Feelings”. He finds himself fighting a losing battle in the name of reclaiming his ex-girlfriend’s love. And what put him in this predicament in the first place was being dumb enough to let her know the inner feelings of his heart. 

And no, it doesn’t read like he said anything offensive to her. Rather he opened up to her – revealed his vulnerability shall we presume. And in response, homegirl just cold left him, breaking his heart in the process. It’s like verbally, he totally took their relationship to a level that she was not prepared for. But he did so clearly not being cognizant of the consequences. Or rather there were two conflicting voices in his head. The first voice was telling him to do it. The second voice emphatically told him not to. And well, we already know what path he chose.

So now he finds himself fighting just to say in the friend zone. Additionally, he’s in a state of shock due to how abruptly she left him. So now, he’s basically pledging not to go there with her again so long as she takes him back. Indeed at the end of the day, he feels as if the words which came out of his mouth have totally backfired in terms of their idealized intent.

Summary

Ruel has made a strong decision to reveal his feelings to his significant other – “too many” in fact. His primary goal of doing this was to bring them closer to each other. However, it ended up scaring his lover away. Now, he is faced with the herculean task of finding a way to reclaiming his lover’s love.

Release Date of “Too Many Feelings”

Coming out on 11 February 2021, this was Ruel’s first new release of said year. And the tune came out alongside an authorized lyric video.

Meanwhile the singer announced the forthcoming of this song a couple of days earlier, on 9 February. At the time of the tune’s release, it wasn’t associated with any album or studio project of Ruel’s.

As of the release of “Too Many Feelings”, Ruel is a tender 18 years old, not set to turn 19 until October 29, 2021. Yet he has already been a professional musician since 2017.

Did Ruel pen this song?

Yes. This is a self-written song. Ruel penned this song, according to his estimation, at the “start of 2019”. In between then and its release date, he has put out about 10 singles as well as a couple of EPs. But the reason he did not come out with “Too Many Feelings” earlier is because he didn’t “feel like it would fit on any of (his) EPs”.

Although this is a self-penned song, it’s worth stating that Ruel did not write this song alone. He was assisted in his writing endeavor by two other songwriters. These co-writers are Peter J. Harding and M-Phazes. M-Phazes, who also produced the track, is an accomplished Australian musician in his own right. Over the years, M-Phazes has produced works for some of the biggest names in the game, including Madonna, Eminem and Demi Lovato. In fact it was M-Phazes who helped introduce the world to Ruel and even collaborated with the young singer on the first track he ever dropped, 2017’s “Golden Years”.