Hannah Grae - 'Better Now You're Gone'
Hannah Grae drops new guitar-fuelled single, ‘Better Now You’re Gone’ alongside the announcement of her upcoming album ‘Nothing Lasts Forever’.
The Port Talbot born musician began to captivate online audiences with her rewrites and covers of people songs posted from her garden shed which resulted in over 146k subscribers on her YouTube channel and 275k followers on TikTok. From merging the nostalgic elements of No Doubt, Courtney Love and The Bangles alongside storytelling lyrics inspired by the likes of Phoebe Bridgers and Taylor Swift, Hannah Grae’s self-taught musical education seats her firmly in the lineage of cross-genre women making musical waves.
It is no shock that Hannah was named as an artist to watch by Rolling Stone UK, NME, Dork and The Independent. With her only realising her first body of work ‘Hell is a Teenage Girl’ last year, she has already impressed crowds across the UK and Europe with performances at Glastonbury, 2000Tees Festival, Liverpool Sound City, Rock En Seine in Paris, Sziget Festival in Budapest, the Mad Cool Festival in Madrid and many more. With her impending arrival of the new album, ‘Nothing Lasts Forever’, 2024 for Hannah will be even more explosive.
The fiery, guitar-filled single, ‘Better Now You’re Gone’ is sung from Hannah Grae’s perspective as she navigates how she is really feeling following her first serious breakup. On the track, Hannah says “Better Now You’re Gone’ is about that stage of a breakup where you’re trying to convince yourself that you’re better off without them. The song starts in an extremely convincing way and it’s almost as if I truly believe that I’m better off. But as the song unravels, it becomes a bit clearer that maybe that’s not the case at all. It’s such a fun song and it’s one of my favourites that I’ve ever written.” ‘Better Now You’re Gone’ is the perfect breakup anthem, as Hannah says that the single is full of denial and regret, and she cannot wait for everyone to hear this authentic single. Hannah Grae shared the video for ‘Better Now You’re Gone’, directed by Lola Webster the video depicts the reality of adulthood while on a night out in comparison to Hannah’s high expectations.
The highly anticipated album, ‘Nothing Lasts Forever’, will show Grae at her very best, following her 2023 mini album ‘Hell is a Teenage Girl’. Complete with nine tracks, the upcoming album will include previously released tracks from ‘Screw Loose’, ‘Who Dunnit?’ and her most streamed track ‘It Could’ve Been You’. On the new album, Hannah says that "Nothing Lasts Forever is a body of work about her first year living away from home, “I was nineteen/twenty and completely in the deep end. My life did a full 180 in the ways I had always dreamed. But I was so unhappy. I threw every single part of myself into this project, almost unhealthily. It was a huge distraction for me and I couldn’t be prouder of the outcome that came from a true breakdown.” Hannah continues that this project was a rollercoaster from sassy and carefree songs about her first ever breakup to heartbreaking ballads about living her dream that suddenly felt like a nightmare, “There are songs about naivety, grief, guilt, temptation, and a pretty dramatic murder mystery… There is no stone unturned on this project. I couldn’t have put more of myself into it and it feels like an extension of me. It’s an ode to the fever dream that was 2022, and although nothing lasts forever, my love for this body of work just might”.
Words by Beth Simms
