Artist: Lauren Balthrop
Hometown: Nashville, Tennessee
Song: “Thank You” (featuring Maya de Vitry)
Album: Things Will Be Different
Release Date: August 12, 2022
Label: Olivia Records
In Their Words: “I co-wrote this song one December morning in 2019 (the before times) with Maya de Vitry. When she got to my house, I started telling her about this deeply painful day the previous week during Thanksgiving. Without going into too much detail, that day brought closure to a relationship that was incredibly hard to leave behind. I had pinned a lot of hopes and dreams on that relationship. She had gone through something similar and what felt like a therapy session turned into this song about different stages of grief around past relationships. ‘Someday I’ll thank you when I’m ready to.’ Now having lived with this song and its recording, a new meaning has taken shape. The lyrics have come to be a conversation with myself and learning to love and let go of my own disappointments.” — Lauren Balthrop
Photo Credit: James Paul Mitchell
