Belgian singer-songwriter Alison Jutta has a knack for the quizzical. In the first line of her debut single “For You”, she professes in a car wreck at a junkyard she wasn’t built for this. Right at that moment, in the 80s styled video, a Nokia 3310 phone is given to her on a silver plate. Those things are nigh indestructible, but they were also pretty much made for one thing: to receive and communicate. Which is more or less how Jutta approaches her craft: songs that seem to operate like mementos of wisdom to the self.
Neither the phone nor a watch compel Jutta to leave the wreckage behind, however. But a bloody, anatomically correct heart prompts her to step out. It briefly slips out of her fingers, and she ardently tries to locate it within the scrap heaps and piles of junk. But once she does, she dances triumphantly on top of the garbage dump, awakened to that what is worth keeping close.
“‘For You’ at first sounds like a love song, which it kind of is,” Jutta says of the song. “But not in the most traditional sense. It is an ode to everything I love, everything that truly brings me joy, and that’s not just productive, useful or the smart thing to do. It’s a moment of realization about who you really are and what matters most. And all of this draped lightly over a bossanova casio beat.”
“For You” is the first glimpse of her upcoming album hello, i don’t know, which is slated for release in February 2024. Check out “For You” on streaming outlets, and watch the video below.
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