Renowned for her powerhouse vocals, raw vulnerability, and evocative storytelling, multi-award-winning artist Carla Geneve returns with a new double single, ‘Finally Broke Me’ / ‘I Still Think About You’, out now via Dot Dash / Remote Control.
Alongside the release, Carla announces the Finally Broke Me tour, hitting Walyalup/Fremantle, Meanjin/Brisbane, Warrane/Sydney and Naarm/Melbourne later this month.
Written in the exhausted comedown of a long tour, ‘Finally Broke Me’ captures the moment the chin-up finally gives way. Speaking on the single, Carla shares: “I wrote Finally Broke Me after a tour where I just didn’t have any energy left for enjoying life. The lyrics are pretty self explanatory. Life is often cruel, and keeping your chin up is possible, but there comes a time when the final straw is the heaviest, and you feel yourself giving in purely from exhaustion and apathy.”
The song travelled with Carla for years before it was finished, played half-formed in bars around the country until she brought in long-time friend and collaborator Eldar Ekic to complete the chords and the bridge. “I don’t often feel the way that I did when I wrote this song in 2022, so it’s nice to look back and rewrite the end with a friend. We adjusted the lyric to be less defeated and more dignified.”
Its companion track, ‘I Still Think About You’, sits on the other side of that exhaustion, in the strange quiet after the pain has loosened its grip. Carla explains: “This song is about the strange feeling of moving on from something painful that has dominated your everyday life. When experiencing something really difficult, I couldn’t comprehend that I wouldn’t spend every day, every hour, for the rest of my life thinking about it. It felt like it was a part of me, and I was resigned to living alongside that pain forever.”
Listen/ purchase ‘Finally Broke Me’ & ‘I Still Think About You’ here.
