Alana Springsteen announces new project – History of Breaking Up (Part Two) – the eight song collection is due out 15th July.
Multi-talented singer-songwriter Alana Springsteen has today announced the upcoming release of HISTORY OF BREAKING UP (PART TWO) — a deeply personal project that affirms her gift for turning heartbreak into hope, healing, and unapologetic joy. Due out July 15, the eight-song collection follows 2021’s widely praised HISTORY OF BREAKING UP (PART ONE), once again showcasing her confessional and highly sophisticated songwriting. Pre-order the project here.
Springsteen co-produced five of the songs – a vital part of the project’s crystalline yet irresistibly unpredictable sound. As the work of art unfolds, the 21-year-old artist documents the many dimensions of heartache (grief, desperation, self-doubt, anger, newfound self-awareness), capturing each emotional state with both raw intensity and breathtaking nuance. In the end, Springsteen ultimately makes a glorious case for opening your heart to the possibility of love, no matter how great the risk.
“When I look back on where I was as I was writing the songs for HISTORY OF BREAKING UP (PART ONE) and then look at where I am now, it’s all a little surreal,” Springsteen admits. “This project started out as a way for me to find some peace and healing through the heartbreak, but it’s given me so much more: I’ve found a community of the most amazing fans who’ve helped me — and each other — to feel a little less alone. If PART ONE set the bar for me, I truly believe PART TWO raises it. It’s been completely therapeutic to write, perform, and co-produce this body of work with so many creative people that I’ve admired for so long. These songs have changed my outlook on life, love, and connection, and have helped me become a better version of myself. I can’t wait for them to be out in the world.”
Made with producers Cameron Jaymes, Chris LaCorte, and Pete Good, HISTORY OF BREAKING UP (PART TWO) closes out on its title track: a gorgeously stripped-back piece that Springsteen co-wrote with Whakaio Taahi (LANY, Katelyn Tarver) and Melissa Fuller (Mickey Guyton, LANCO). With its lush textures and luminous guitar tones, “History of Breaking Up” centers on a particularly powerful vocal performance from Springsteen, whose lyrics speak to the brutal confusion of feeling like the one you loved has become an absolute stranger (from the chorus: “In the history of breaking up/Tell me has anyone/Ever been so bad at this bad at this?/Like you turned into someone else/You’re nothing like yourself”).
“One of my exes asked me to give back all the things he had given me after I ended our relationship: a bracelet, a jacket, a hoodie, everything,” Springsteen explains. “It took breaking up for me to realize who he really was — he said and did some really cruel things that I knew he could never take back. I didn’t recognize him anymore. It was long distance, so we’d sent each other a ton of letters; I remember burning the ones he sent me out of frustration, along with Polaroids from a vacation we took together. This song represented a form of closure for me.”
Tracklist for HISTORY OF BREAKING UP (PART TWO)
1. While You’re At It
2. Close To Me*
3. Me Myself and Why
4. Trust Issues*
5. You Are*
6. That Was All You
7. New Number*
8. History of Breaking Up*
*Co-produced by Springsteen
