What better day than Valentine’s to release a song about heartbreak?
Holly is a 20-year-old Pop artist based in Leeds, from Lichfield in the West Midlands. She has always had a huge passion for music and writing but began to develop these during the first lockdown in March 2020. Currently, she is studying pop music at Leeds Conservatoire whilst using her weekends and any free time for busking and gigging around the UK.
Holly’s latest single Still Breathing describes the pain of losing someone with the bittersweet process of finding out who you are and coming out the other side stronger, more well-rounded and sure of your self worth.
She sings about the difficulty of leaving a toxic relationship, which you realise was suffocating, and in the end leaving turns out to be a liberating decision.
Still Breathing teases you with relationship cliches to shed light on your partner’s immaturity and empty promises, and the pain of being left feeling constantly disappointed.
It took Holly a good eight months to get the song written. Whilst Still Breathing is about the pain of getting over somebody and finally moving on, Holly admitted that she also struggled with writing it but as soon as she let others’ thoughts and opinions go, she was able to write the song and truly be herself about it.
When her friends joined in the songwriting process, Holly felt it helped – and it was a lot of fun.
Holly’s talent is impressive – juggling songwriting, performing live, being a student and going through heartbreak – something so many of us can relate to. The feeling of being young and in love and seeing your first relationship through rose-tinted glasses and putting up with more than you probably should is a character- building experience , almost like a rite of passage into your early 20s as you begin to step into yourself and discover who you truly are.
Through the sound of pop, Holly captures the emotion of heartbreak whilst learning to love and accept yourself. Self-described as a ‘pop girly through and through’, Holly Rolfe certainly knows how to use the sound to express the joy of falling in love, the anguish of heartbreak and the discovery of self.
