Throughout the spring and summer, Hey Violet are set to release four new tracks. Better By Myself is the first, and also their first release since the Los Angeles based pop-rock band’s 2017 debut album From The Outside.

Better By Myself is a good old break-up song, but while other tracks in that category are often melancholic, full of heartache and pain, Hey Violet deliver an upbeat tune of relief and self-love. Front woman Rena Lovelis reveals:  “It’s about being in an unhealthy relationship and having the courage to leave, but realizing maybe you’re isolating a little much. I think we need to fall in love with ourselves before we fall in love with anybody else and that’s why the song sounds so celebratory. It’s about finding that happy medium between ‘I don’t need anyone,’ which tends to be a defense mechanism, and being truly okay with yourself.”

Hey Violet’s Better By Myself is this week’s Carte Blanche Music Wildcard!

In the Wildcards 2019 playlist you can find all of this year’s Carte Blanche Music Wildcards so far.

Werner Schlosser

Music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a CD club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Has been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, he developed the European Border Breakers Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart.