A Dramatization Presented By

A Dramatization Presented By brings back the characters, Bitter and Sweet. The album was a tribute to Zion and was made to express the 5 stages of grief using Bitter and Sweet as the ones controlling Addy Faith’s emotions. Now, just because Bitter and Sweet are involved, this doesn’t automatically put this in the storyline of Bittersweet as a whole. This album represented expressing heavy mental health crisis moments, especially revolving around grief, as an adult. If Bittersweet was the youth and kid aspect of life, and also represents teenage angst and growing up, Blank Canvas represented the highs and lows of early adulthood, and finally A Dramatization representing the mental health aspect of adulthood. The characters, Bitter and Sweet, are finally analyzed a lot more in this album. Sweet was a reflection of my sister, or a part of me I never really felt in tune with. Bitter, on the other hand, was my main personality, given the experiences I’ve had in my life. Sweet tries to keep our main character, Addy Faith, on a positive, “it gets better” road, whereas Bitter keeps her more on a realistic, “you need to let it go” point of view. Addy struggled mainly with which view to look from in the situation of grief and felt torn between letting herself grieve her sister and healing, or moving on and continuing as normal. In the song “911”, Addy expressed the feelings of regret and bottled up emotions, feeling as if her emotions weren’t valid and if she were to ask for help, everyone would’ve told her to get over it, which she did experience in real life. If you listen closely to each album, specifically A Dramatization, there is a lot of foreshadowing for the future of our main star. During the grief process, Addy Faith mentioned making enemies out of old friends in the height of her grieving process. In the end of the album, Addy makes peace with her sister’s death, promising to live for her instead of trying to live without her and going back to her roots of being a “bittersweet” person and changing for the better. However, this did not last very long in the storyline. Remember how Addy said she made enemies? Did you catch the last lyric to the track “Burn” saying “Addy Faith, she’s dead to me?” or even in “Hearts” where both Bitter and Sweet said “If they want you dead-”? In “Critics Are Raving-” did you catch what Addy Faith said about herself, inspired by things people actually said? This all led to the conclusion of the saga, the death of Addy Faith.