Alana Springsteen - selfish (Official Visualizer)

i hope you choose yourself again and again until it feels like breathing. growing up in an environment where there was no room for my emotions came at a price i didn't realize until much later. because i felt everything so intensely and carried the weight of everyone else's feelings like they were my own, i learned to dissociate and compartmentalize to survive. on the outside i looked unaffected. unbothered. cold. i was called "heartless," "selfish," "insensitive." and when you're 9, you don't question those labels. you just accept them. they calcify. when we wrote this, sasha, emily, will and i started swapping stories about the labels we'd all collected over the years. identities people gave us long before we knew what they meant. lines like "it's weird to say, cause it's not in my dna" were born from that conversation. unfiltered and unedited. this song has become something of a private mantra for me. simple melodies, almost childish like a nursery rhyme, speaking directly to the kid in me who never knew she could take up space. i'll probably spend the rest of my life reminding myself that standing up for myself isn't mean and choosing not to go through hell isn't greed. songwriters: me, will weatherly, sasha alex sloan, emily weisband performers: me – lead vocals, background vocals, acoustic guitar will weatherly – keyboards, programming sasha alex sloan – background vocals engineering & production: will weatherly – producer, vocal producer, editing engineer, recording engineer me – producer dave clauss – mixing engineer adam ayan – mastering engineer recorded at: jrm studio in nashville, tn Listen to I HOPE THIS HELPS On All Platforms: https://alana-springsteen.ffm.to/ihop... Follow Alana Springsteen: Instagram:   / alanaspringsteen   Tiktok:   / alanaspringsteen   Twitter: https://x.com/alanaspringstn Facebook:   / alanaspringsteen   Listen to Alana Springsteen: Apple Music:   / alana-springsteen   Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/4TPT9... Amazon: https://music.amazon.com/artists/B00G... SoundCloud:   / alanaspringsteen   Subscribe:    / @alanaspringsteen   #AlanaSpringsteen #IHOPETHISHELPS #selfish