[Cover photo credit to Delaney Gibson]

Austin-based Alt-Pop artist Somebody Someone (they/them) has released new single and video “Better.” The track comes to some realizations about the courtesy we extend to others and whether we extend compassion to ourselves.

They comment on writing the track:

I feel like I hadn’t marinated in its message enough to believe it… and then, like magic, I did.

They added, via American Songwriter:

This song came to me at a time where I didn’t believe the words I was writing. I was doing some deep inner work and learning to have the same compassion I had for others for myself. So as I was writing this and watching my pen move around on the page, I was sitting there thinking, ‘Where is this coming from?’ I’m not religious but I am spiritual. I believe in higher powers, ancestral nudges, and universal truths delivered to people willing to accept them. The music I’ve written since penning this song has all been influenced by something greater than myself and I feel like it has something to do with working with and not against my inner nature.

Somebody Someone grew up in Gulfport, MS in a very music-oriented household. They began performing at age 10 at weddings and country gatherings and even opened for Blake Shelton at the Crawfish Music Festival in 2007.

A fortuitous move to Austin (for a tech start-up that didn’t quite pan out), they switched gears and jumped feet first into the music world full time.