ALANNAH MCCREADY - I'm Just Fine - Independent Release

Coming off a hot 2024 that took what she had already accomplished with her breakout single “Can I Call” and amped her buzzworthy status with the very-well received “Easy,” Alannah McCready now delivers what is her most vulnerable single to date, “I’m Just Fine.”

“I usually keep my personal struggles private, but as an artist, I wanted this song to reflect true transparency. After recovering from a serious health scare, I’ve realized that no matter the hardship, you will overcome it, and life becomes more beautiful on the other side. This song started as a way to cope with my own experience and evolved into a message about how good people often face hardships they don’t deserve,” shares McCready on the song.

Co-written with frequent collaborator Will Gittens, the lyrics glide the concealed answer that we’ll often use as response to the question of how we’re doing, when in truth, the darker, confusing moments of life are weighing us down and twisting us into feeling anything other than.

Encompassing emotional sways of shame, fear, worry, and anxiety, the soft acoustic strum layers each of the quizzical verses that sees McCready pondering the overwhelming and unexpected shifts of life, first from confines of a hospital bed and then from the trenches of hurt after a painful divorce, crying out an ask through agony, “why do bad things happen to people like me?”

Floating an irresistible pop underlay that subtly tilts her signature flares beneath the instrumental flow of the chorus, she masterfully places her vocal ebbs and flows into confessional tones, enlightening the connection factor between she and her core audience as she sings:

“I’m feel like I’m spiraling

But I’m too young to die yet

On the edge of fighting for my life

Lately I’ve been losing

But I’m good at pretending

If you ask me how I’m doing

I’m just fine”

However, it’s the light of the bridge that holds tightly to the deeper message, tying her frayed edges with the essence of faith when she strikes hopefulness in her heart induced answer to the question she’s been pondering, “But I’m still breathing, I believe I’ll be okay.”

“I’m Just Fine” isn’t just the next single in the budding career of one of country music’s rising sensations, but it’s a shoulder to lean on through your tougher moments that offers the reassuring okay to talk about what we’re going through and dealing with, knowing we’ll be okay on the someday other side of it but holding to the truth that we need someone to listen in the here and now.

(Review Written By: Jeffrey Kurtis)