“Jealous of Him” by ettie makes you want to stare dramatically out of a rainy window or scream into your pillow at 2 AM. It starts off soft—melancholic piano chords setting the mood, her voice dripping with quiet heartbreak, that raw, painful kind of sadness that feels too big to say out loud. Then, like a dam breaking, the song swells. Cymbals crash, guitars snarl, and her voice soars, not just singing the words but feeling them—like she’s barely holding back tears, like she’s got her fists clenched, like she’s finally saying what she’s kept inside for way too long.
And the lyrics are brutally honest. She lays it all out, watching someone you love move on, feeling like an outsider in your own heartbreak, knowing that what you had was real but having to keep it locked away. The jealousy isn’t just about the guy; it’s about the fact that he gets to be with her, openly, freely, while ettie is left with nothing but what-ifs and unspoken memories. The song doesn’t just tell you that pain, it makes you feel it.
The whole thing has major early 2000s pop-punk energy, like if Avril Lavigne and Paramore had a secret love child raised on angst and Shakespearean tragedy. It’s raw, it’s dramatic, it’s cathartic in the best way possible.
“Jealous of Him” is for those of us with broken crushes tucked away under our beds. Play it loud. Let yourself scream along. Sometimes, the best way to move on is to sing it out.
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Review by: Naomi Joan