LA band Love Ghost have released their introspective new single “I’ll Be Fine,” for Mental Health Awareness Month.
The Danny Saber (The Rolling Stones, Alice Cooper, the Charlatans, Public Enemy) produced track intermingles rock, rap, and trap influences to convey the feelings of loneliness, and angst that comes with being a teenager. Love Ghost frontman Finnegan Bell said this about the track:
‘I’ll Be Fine’ is a song about depression and isolation. It’s about when you’re so alienated that the only person that can tell you, that you’ll be aight, is yourself. I hope this song helps people that are dealing with depression and can alleviate kids that are feeling like an outsider. I have felt very alone in the past, but that doesn’t mean that things can’t get better. I hope this song gives hope because mental health is a marathon. You need to work on it every day.
“I’ll Be Fine” was written and recorded months before the COVID-19 crisis but the themes resonate now more than ever with the forced isolation and lack of human connection, due to shelter-in-place orders. Although the song addresses some dark themes, it has an overall feeling of hope, that everything that all spokes that go down must come back up again, and that end of the day, everything will be fine.
With the release of this, Love Ghost is hoping to contribute to the conversation around mental health and mental health awareness month. It’s only by addressing these issues that the stigma around mental health starts to diminish, giving more people the courage to seek help.
“I’ll be Fine” is the somber follow up to the lighthearted “Chasin Money and Bitches ” single released in March, which is a comedic and hedonistic look on what it is that our culture values most from the viewpoint of a teenager living in Los Angeles in 2020. The song was a breakout hit on SoundCloud garnering over 270,000 plays, 3,079 reposts, and 650 comments, resulting in a wildly successful remix contest with an incredible track from DJ and producer IPN taking the top spot.