Cloudy June is a 21-year-old, Berlin-raised-and-based musician. Having previously performanced for three-years as the singer in a death metal band, Cloudy June is now challenging our expectations through dark, intelligent pop music.
Having previously broken into the top 30 on HypeMachine with her single High Waist To Hell and topped 120,000 streams on Spotify, Cloudy June is back with unique new song Pretty Pills For Broken Hearts.
Opening with a sultry and moody vocal and guitar performance, Pretty Pills instantly portrays an image of someone struggling with how to address the way they feel, to move beyond a person that refuses to get off of their mind. With the song directed at a mysterious individual named Alice, the titular pretty pills are used as a way to just move beyond the pain. Sometimes it is tempting to numb ourselves to just stop the feeling.
What makes Pretty Pills stand out for me is the way it depicts the injured swagger that can sometimes come out of the experience of heartbreak… You no longer care what other people think, and so you can embrace a sense of being aloof and distant, self-absorbed, lost in feelings whilst insulated from everything except the hurt inside your own head.