This is one of the prettiest songs I heard last year. Lyrics are a little sad though, but do not take away from the beautiful whole. If you’re on TikTok, you may have heard this song already, because it was used in about a bajillion videos.
“But it’s over, then you’re driving me home, and it kind comes out, as I get up to go, you kiss me in your car, and it feels like the start of a movie I’ve seen before, but it’s not real, and you don’t exist, and I can’t recall the last time I was kissed, it hits me in the car, and it feels like the end of a movie I’ve seen before, before”
I was so heart-broken once I listened to the song enough times and focused on the lyrics to know that she’s just imagining this person in the end. That’s the hallmark of a good sad song to me, when it actually hurts you a little to listen to it every time. I guess the hallmark itself might be how acute you end up feeling the emotion that’s being expressed in the song, right?
There’s just something about McAlpine’s breathy delivery that makes this song sting all the more. You feel her loneliness, or the loneliness of the character in the song I guess, but she says “me” so, I’m going with this being a lived experience. It’s too authentic to not be honestly. When songwriters bare their soul like this, it’s special.
Homework for today is to check in with yourself. What’s working? What’s not? What change can we make for the better. I wish that for you. Be good, do good.
everything, etc. 
oof.
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