Francesca Blanchard's deeply personal "Happy For You" casts sad reflections (Official Video)

"what do I do when I run out of you"

Moving music can be a powerful mirror. As I listened to Francesca Blanchard's heart breaking and deeply personal, Happy For You, her beautifully deep vocal aesthetic and nimble sad guitar notes slowly washed over me like a fine coastal morning mist then her words started sinking in. 

You’re my bottle, my prescription drug 

What do I do when I run out of you? 

Facing myself is so hard to do 

And I’m watching you do it 

Fighting right through it 

Like you never needed me at all

I am not embarrassed to say (ok, maybe a little bit) that my eyes watered and I started to choke up right after "what do I do when I run out of you?'' and moments later I had to wipe tears from my eyes. Mind you, this was listening and not watching the Official Video. Sometimes music casts hard self reflections that can, if we choose to look, make ourselves better. Thanks Francesca, thanks.

Happy For You is from Francesca's first full length album dropping on June 12th entitled, "Make It Better".

-Robb Donker Curtius

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ABOUT THIS SONG

Written in the agonizing space between resentment and letting go, "Happy For You" honors the beautiful albeit excruciating experience of reconciling a love's end. Blanchard's lyrics are raw and achingly relatable; she thrusts them to the forefront with masterfully stark arrangement and intensely intimate vocals. She says, "The song is about choosing to be happy for someone who is happier without you. To me, it feels like walking on eggshells, like trying to salvage the remaining pieces of a broken relationship while making as little noise as possible. It's a submission to grief, and there is something so fragile in that.”