Eylsia Nicolas finds harmony in chaos with single “Cats & Dogs”

With her new song “Cats & Dogs,” singer-songwriter Eylsia Nicolas delivers a heartwarming lesson in how the most disparate pairings can find harmony. “Cats & Dogs” has a title that cheekily references one of the best-known rivalries in the animal kingdom, but that’s about all that’s adversarial about the film. It’s a song delivered with simplicity and an important message that we may not have to get along, but we can, and often the people closest to us will show us how.

Eylsia’s storytelling is refreshingly sincere. There’s no weighty, complex lyrics or pretension here; just a simple story that offers listeners of all ages a chance to think about empathy, patience, and connection. It’s a song with a feel that wouldn’t be out of place waltzing through a sun-streaked kitchen or offering a quiet soundtrack on a road trip. It registers with a combining dose of memories and reflection. “Cats & Dogs” has the message, and it’s also all in the delivery of that message by Eylsia. Her voice is warm and effortlessly inviting, pulling the listener in and making it sound like a friend telling you a story over coffee. She takes the song on with a featherlight grace, and she never mutes it by laying it on too hard.

The song is as down to earth as its message. The instrumentation is warm and melodic, with pleasant use of acoustic textures that complement Eylsia’s voice or lyrics. The production is clean and intimate, giving the story room to breathe. “Cats & Dogs” is a musical reminder that sometimes the simplest truths are also the deepest. We don’t have to be alike to love, to know, to coexist. Through this beguiling track, Elysia Nicolas asks us to look beyond the fur and the claws and perhaps see a little bit of ourselves in both. With “Cats & Dogs,” Eylsia is making a point. And she gets it done with warmth, wisdom, and a wink.