Los Angeles-based singer/songwriter, animator, actress and activist Brittany Campbell announces her new album, LMRNCE, out 7 January 2027. Alongside the announcement, she shares ‘CRY BABY’, a soulful R&B track about trying to protect yourself from heartbreak and wishing you could care a little less.
With rich vocals and a more vulnerable approach, ‘CRY BABY’ captures the difficulty of wanting to be emotionally untouchable while still being open to the potential of love.
“I’m a little embarrassed to talk about ‘CRY BABY’.The whole album, ‘LMRNCE,’ is about falling in love with fantasy and potential, and I wrote ‘CRY BABY’ at a moment when that bubble burst. All of a sudden, loving someone who felt out of reach wasn’t all that fun anymore.
Brittany Campbell
I wrote it shortly after coming home from tour and feeling a lot of distance in my relationship. I was foolishly bouncing between anxious and avoidant attachment while desperately wishing I could just become emotionally untouchable. Sometimes I really wish I could be that girl who doesn’t care, but when I’m in love, it just doesn’t really work that way for me. ‘CRY BABY’ is me pouting about that.”
Check out the visualizer for ‘CRY BABY’ here.
‘CRY BABY’ features Steph.fm, the missing piece in completing the song’s sound.
“It also took me a while to figure out what the song was missing. I tried different versions of a feature, but nothing really made sense until Steph.fm. She’s genuinely one of my favorite musicians and guitarists out right now, and I realized the song didn’t need any more words – it needed a feeling and an atmosphere. That’s exactly what Steph brought to it. I almost don’t think of her as just a featured artist on the song; she feels like my co-painter of the whole feeling.”
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