LEWIS BRICE

                                                               "Thanks For The Heartbreak" 

                                                                Independent Release

With over 50 million cumulative streams of his music, Lewis Brice is certainly no stranger to country music fans. However, while 2022 was an incredible year of plunging ahead for the country-rocker with singles  “Livin’’ and “Call Me Yours,” it now merely seems like only a preview of how incredible 2023 is shaping up to be.

Announcing his first full-length album, Product Of (releasing July 28, 2023), he now delivers the first glimpse at things still to come with the albums lead single, “Thanks for the Heartbreak.”

Co-written by Brice with Adam Wood and the late Kyle Jacobs, the soft melody is perfectly laced with an insatiable backbeat that pulls the listener into the groove, making them perk their ears to listen as he drops his voice, which teeters on the edge of being raw yet still so crisp, into a heartfelt thank you letter to the girl who broke his heart.

Looking back on the “would haves” through the opening verse, he admits that they would have worked things out if she had stayed, made the best of the cards they were dealt, and that he never would have left her if she didn’t leave him.

The chorus, though, intriguingly flips the entire script away from the would haves and moves squarely into his thank you note to her, as he sings:

“Thanks for the goodbye

Thanks for the missing you

Thanks for the long nights outta my mind

I stayed up drinking through

Thanks for all the calls you didn’t pick up

The lipstick note, the songs that I wrote

The pain and the rain led to brighter days

And thank you for the heartbreak”

Though the second verse does tell of the amazing new girl that he’s found since their split and how he never would have if it wasn’t for the breakup, what really seals the deal on this song is how Brice chooses to never shift away from the fact that while things have a way of working themselves out over time, it doesn’t negate that in the immediate aftermath you face a ton of hurt and confusing emotions.

Gripping the broken-hearted listener while offering an understanding shoulder to lean on, Lewis sings very truthful lines that strike the right chords, confessing that he was angry, thought that he’d never heal, and thought that he’d never love again.

We all understand that heartbreak will always eventually lead to an even better next chapter, but by fully embracing the scope of all the different emotions that swirl within you from point A to Point B, Brice shines a bright spotlight of encouragement on how that very painful moment is exactly what makes you understand from a now perspective that something amazing waits on the other side if you can just push through it.

(Review Written By: Jeffrey Kurtis)

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