Donegal singer-songwriter LARAbEL has released her third single today, and it’s a summer anthem perfect for road trips.
WESTCOAST by Lara Sweeney-Doherty from Gweedore, aka Larabel, is a fun pop summer song that captures the experience of being in a relationship and the self-discovery that comes with figuring out what you truly want in life during that time.
WESTCOAST is LARAbEL’s third single, taken from her upcoming EP Squiggle, coming out on 7th August.
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The lyrics of WESTCOAST explore what it looks like to search for that meaning in life, and learning that dragging someone else into one’s own inner turmoil and allowing them to worry about you is not healthy, and that sometimes you have to walk away to grow and put yourself first.
LARAbEL had this to say about the meaning of the song: “In the darkness, it can be hard to see how you affect those around you. Sometimes, you get comfortable in the gloom and lose touch with yourself—losing touch with how you feel for others. It’s not a good time to get into an intimate relationship with someone, letting someone else down because of the lack of care for yourself. Thinking that you can’t be loved by anyone else, that no one can handle the weight of your demons. Choosing the balloon—the meaning of life, the hopefulness—takes hard inward work, and WESTCOAST is about that feeling, contrasted with a light, fun pop song. Because that’s the manner in which you dealt with the heaviness: with a fun, carefree summer to distract you from yourself.”
