Poeina – Unloveable [Single]

“Unloveable” is Poeina showing us all the things we aren’t supposed to see—messy, vulnerable, cracked open.  Just over a month since it dropped, this earthy pop ballad carries the weight of something older, something more weathered. From the first few notes of that naked electric guitar, you’re drawn into a space that feels like it’s balancing on the edge of a tearful sigh. Poeina’s voice isn’t stiltedly polished, and it doesn’t want to be; there’s a hurt and honesty in it, like she’s on the verge of hollering out something she’s kept in way too long. She throws her head back and roars, “Am I unloveable? / Must I fight the world alone?”—like a woman on a cliff’s edge, shouting into the night sky, hoping the stars have ears.

The production by Bill Tyler Godfrey and Andrew Monheim knows when to lean in and when to step back. It builds up slowly, harp flutters swell with violins, only to strip down again, mirroring Poeina’s emotional highs and lows. She’s wrestling with herself, her voice a little jagged, a little tender, and undeniably alone. “Unloveable” doesn’t try to find an answer; it just sits with the question, heavy and haunting. It’s a number that hold you in that uneasy space between hurting and healing, letting the ache breathe without drowning it in a bottle of whiskey.

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