In her new single “Lonely Hearts Club,” when Winona Oak sings “Threw up in the bathtub / Laid down on the bath rug / Didn’t fall asleep I was already gone”, well, we felt a bit seen. We’ve all been down low on the cold tiles of life at some point or another, and now the Swedish alt-pop singer-songwriter has a sparkling song that captures that moment and uses it as a pivot to a better life ahead.
The track is included on Oak’s colorful January EP Closure, and the official lyric video landed on YouTube just last week (May 14).
“‘Lonely Hearts Club’ is a dialogue between me and my inner demons,” she tells Billboard. “It’s a deep self reflection that I wrote five years ago and the very start of a journey towards self love and growth. The darkest corners of someone else can shine a light on the parts of ourselves that we need to work on. Understand who you are, who you used to be — and forgive yourself.”
Step into Winona Oak’s world below, and revisit her Closure EP if you slept earlier in the year.
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