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Nina Nesbitt is feeling a lot of things in her latest video, ‘I Should Be a Bird.’

‘How am I supposed to carry/The weight of your love/When it gets this heavy?’ the Scottish singer wonders, surrounded by earthly delights in the form of waterfalls and wide open fields. A tender acoustic lullaby, you can feel the weight of the world on her voice, singing with an aching breathlessness that proves charming yet bittersweet.  

Says Nesbitt (via Genius):

‘I wrote this song about being an empath. I’m a very sensitive person who absorbs other people’s feelings, so if someone I care about is sad or going through something, I take it all on and get too involved. At times, I’ve even got really depressed after giving a lot of myself to other people. So this song is really about learning to set boundaries so I’m not there for my friends too much. When it all gets a bit heavy, I just need to be a bird and fly away.’

Nina Nesbitt’s new album Älskar is out now. Read the review for her 2019 album, The Sun Will Come Up, The Seasons Will Change, here.  

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'Colours Of You' by #NinaNesbitt is next on my favourite new #songs released in #2022.

'Colours Of You‘ feels like the pivot point of Älskar, her thrid album. It opens with a lonely piano that delicately dances around the idea of love before artistic confidence cuts through to enjoy the ideas and dream of the ideal. Its stripped-back sound of strings supporting a solitary piano reminds me why it doesn’t take much to love yourself.