Always unafraid of raw emotion, New York’s own Bridget Barkan proves with her new release, “Heartbroken Ones,” that heartbreak can be turned into something extraordinary. This bruised and intimate ballad is a moment of catharsis, a shoulder to cry on for anyone who has broken their heart.
Barkan, a one-woman creative dynamo who acts, writes songs and music and writes plays, created “Heartbroken Ones” in the wake of a crushing betrayal. She explained that this song was written when she discovered her boyfriend had been cheating on her. And as she sang the song daily to herself, it helped her heal.
“Heartbroken Ones” is an emotional unraveling, an invitation to sit with grief, cry it out, and move on. The weight of Barkan’s pain hovers over every note, but there is an undeniable strength to her vulnerability. You hear it in her voice’s tremble and rise.
The production is spare but haunting, leaving room for her voice to shine through, a carrier for the rawness of her experience. Every lyric seems like a piece of that experience itself. Its heartbreak boiled down to melody, distilled, unfiltered, and deeply human. Barkan describes this track as alchemy, transforming private pain into something universal that sounds like it was written for every listener who has ever cradled a broken heart.
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