Brooklyn-based auteur Calista Garcia’s latest salvo is an electrifying roller coaster of a tune, rising high one moment before plummeting fast the next, and then doing it again and again. In a sense, it mimics the emotional ride we’ve all been on this year. June ’25 is mere days away and yet, though the year isn’t even half done, some days it seems as if we’ve been stuck on a malfunctioning tilt-a-whirl for near a decade.
“If you’re trying to break my heart, it’s already broken,” she sings in the song’s first line, soon spinning out the highs and lows, fears and anger, coursing through her.
On Instagram, she explained, “I’ve always found anger uncomfortable, unsafe. However, it can be a powerful tool to tell us when something isn’t right. Right now, we have every reason and more to be angry. What we don’t express stays in the body, turns to illness or depression or slips out in unsafe ways. It’ll eat you up.” She goes on to say, “Music has always been the biggest outlet for my feelings. I wrote this in 45 minutes (unusually quick write) when I was feeling so angry I couldn’t bury it, and wondered if there was a way I could make this feeling almost fun? Satisfying? Like a song that rips.”
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