Indie artist Rebecca Karpen has released a new single “23” that deals with finding closure and moving on, streaming now.
NYC-based singer and songwriter Rebecca Karpen has been making music for the past 10 years that blends her outstanding vocals and distinctive songwriting. In her new acoustic, sentimental and melancholy single “23”, Rebecca shared that her song is a means of finding closure after being psychologically abused by her mentor during college, the effects of which almost cost her life as she inadvertently neglected her health. “I have never felt as free as I did after completing this song, and I hope that you find something of meaning for yourselves in it.”
“23” can be interpreted as a genuinely personal piece of work about a traumatizing experience. Rebecca added that “grief is a really weird thing because we never entirely stop grieving, we just gradually stop letting it control us and allow it to disappear, piece by piece, into the recesses of our minds. It doesn’t leave, so occasionally, something will be a bit of a jump scare and drag this fear and pain up again suddenly and it makes it incredibly difficult to live your life outside of the fear of encountering this horrible sense of dread again”.
After not being able to cope for a while, she found the best and only way to cope and move on was to speak about her isolating and overwhelming experience hence she wrote “23”. “I was fighting a war against someone who wasn’t there any longer and it still felt like I was losing. I was angry and frustrated because it felt like this other person who had caused so much destruction and ruined my life, had caused me to neglect my own health out of stress, was able to steal away without any consequence for what they had inflicted, while I just needed to deal with it alone as the people closest to me struggled to understand if my rage was warranted or just me speaking from a place of anger and vilifying someone none of them had ever met.” Rebecca added.
It usually takes a while for someone to get the clarity that they need, as it took Rebecca about 3 years to finish writing “23”, a song reflecting on still being haunted by someone who couldn’t be more physically absent in their world, yet mentally and emotionally ubiquitous. Although her single might sound dark and appear tragic, in a weird way, “23” gave Rebecca peace. “I think it allowed me to get the closure I needed and find the words to describe something I had been incapable of processing or articulating for years and now that I could tell this story, I didn’t feel chained to it anymore. It actually freed me from this person’s hold in recording it.” The newly released single was a moment of triumph for the singer and she doesn’t think she’s ever been so nervous and so passionate about any song she’s ever released.
Accompanied with the new single, Rebecca also teased to her fans that she’s working on her debut album “Edelweiss, Or Soundtrack to a Nervous Breakdown”, that could potentially release next year, and fans should be on lookout for new singles coming out later this year.
“23” from Rebecca Karopen is available to stream everywhere. And for more information about the singer, fans can visit here.
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