Hurt By You - Donna Missal

‘Hurt By You’ by Donna Missal has been the score to this sort of period of reckoning I've found myself in. The second the single dropped I had it on repeat, the rolling drum line weaving its way through the car stereo, the hook falling off my lips like some sort of omen from my subconscious. Still, it wasn’t until days and many listens later that I was washed over with this overwhelming need to release all the strife I had been clutching so close to my chest for weeks and weeks. It was in that exact moment that I finally realized how deeply I romanticize my own past, no matter how bitter or how big the hurt was, I had been living for this falsified version of my own memories. Clinging onto this rouge hued adaption of people who have come and gone, as though this loss hadn’t pained me enough, I had to build them up to be my end all be all that I now had to almost mourn. This song felt like looking into a mirror and actually seeing myself for the first time in a long, long time. Which is probably the most dramatic way of putting it, but when you feel like your world is falling apart just to one day be sitting on your floor listening to music and realize that you are still whole, that deserves some Macbeth level grandeur. This same grand and sonorous rhetoric seeps out of the very bones of this song, Donna pouring over into a throaty declaration of a new life no longer lived for another, diving head first into a bout of change you thought you would never be ready for. Fusing a folksy guitar riff to her classic pop sensibility, born from this a tune you can’t help but move along to. This is a song for letting go, for driving out to where you can see far past the highest hill crest, when you can almost see all your vexes rattle off the sun kindled dashboard and out the wide open window.

Donna is set to release her new record later this year, but in the meantime be sure to stream 'Hurt By You' here, and keep up with her on Instagram and Twitter.