Category: Single
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“Love Me Like Your Ex”: CAMERON Refuses to Be Anyone’s Copy
Is it even worth staying with someone who compares you to a ghost from their past? The answer seems obvious – run. But in real life, of course, everything is more complicated: we put up with things, adapt, try to become a little “more similar,” just to hold on to someone’s attention. It was from…
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“Lenny’s No Longer Suffering”: Joanne Powell’s Musical Message
How do you say goodbye for the final time, especially when you know that a specific date has been chosen far in advance? Joanne Powell asks in a comment on Joanne Powell’s single. Many might think this is a line from a movie about love and loss. Here it is a real story: the song…
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Overheard Tenderness: Dolph Cane on the Single “Sunflower”
How do you manage to find a balance when you’re just twenty, with a guitar in your hands, dreams of performing on a big stage swirling in your mind, and at the same time carrying a small child whose entire life relies on you? Bringing up a child at a time when the industry is…
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Rising in Spite of It All: The Sound Anatomy of Anna Storm’s New Single
What is the first thing that comes to mind when you hear: “Still I rise”? For me personally, a very specific physical sensation arises: the moment when you’re already exhausted, your hands have dropped, and yet your body, by some stubborn reflex, reaches to stand up once more. A peculiar muscular memory of resistance that…
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The Art of Being “Not Here”: Leaf House’s Indie World in One Track
We use certain phrases so often that we rarely give them special meaning, but in fact they can mean almost everything at once. “Not here” is one of those. It could be a rejection: “I’m not here for you.” It could be a diagnosis: “I’m physically present, but my thoughts are somewhere else.” Or it…
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Piper Connolly Cancels the Apology: She’s Not Sorry
Being “too much” can be exhausting. Too loud, too jealous, too emotional, too noticeable-the list of other people’s grievances is longer than the coffee line in Los Angeles. But Piper Connolly seems to have decided to no longer cut herself down to a comfortable size. And rightly so: who even needs another perfectly edited person…
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Self-Irony Sounds Better than Self-Improvement: “Olew’r Olewydd” by Los Blancos
“You know, none of us really figured out how to live this life,” an exhausted movie hero will drop somewhere on screen one day, and we’ll just quietly nod along in the dark of the theater. Every other podcast teaches you to be productive 24/7, and social media pushes a cult of self-improvement – admitting…
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“WANNABE”: JORRE’s Boldest Side Yet
You often truly see a person not in moments of intimacy, but in a moment of disappointment. Familiar words seem rehearsed, gestures look like part of a role, and the relationship – like a set. At first, it feels like a blow to the gut. Then – like anger. And then, if you are lucky,…
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Loneliness for Two Voices: Toby Gad and JERUB’s New Single “Alone Tonight”
Loneliness is a tricky thing, but it reaches its peak when the calendar seems to order everyone to hug and celebrate. Outside the window, everyone is raising their glasses together – and at that moment your personal silence starts to sound deafening. This intonation, familiar to many, was captured by hitmaker Toby Gad and British-Nigerian…
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On the Right to Play God – and Why Matt DeAngelis Turns it Down
Raskolnikov once convinced himself that some people are allowed more than others – that they have the right to step over other lives in the name of their own truth. Dostoevsky wrote an entire novel to show the cost of that kind of self-belief: it’s the soul itself. A century and a half later, I…
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