Alexa Kate captures something relatable on “Forever”: the strange disorientation of looking back at yourself and barely recognising the person you see.
This is a song for thoughts that drift in the middle of the night, when you’re too tired to lie to yourself about how quickly everything changes.
The production strips away any unnecessary layers. Tender acoustic arrangements create space for Kate’s vocals to float through an airy soundscape that feels like breath itself.
She sings softly, intimately, as though sharing secrets. The delicate melody never pushes, or demands attention. It simply exists. Rather like the fleeting moments the lyrics mourn.
Kate wrestles with time’s cruel mathematics throughout the track. “Same hands but they’re different / Close my eyes and then three years go by” captures that vertigo of suddenly realising you’ve changed without noticing the exact moment it happened.
What makes “Forever” particularly affecting is how Kate refuses easy answers. She knows she’ll be fine somehow, but that knowledge doesn’t stop the anxiety.
She wants to see things as she did back then, whilst simultaneously accepting that the version of herself who saw that way no longer exists.
The chorus phrase “I’m changing forever” cleverly collapses two meanings: she’s changing for all time, and she’s changing what forever even means.
This stripped-back approach suits the material perfectly. Kate doesn’t need production tricks or vocal gymnastics to make her point.
Sometimes vulnerability sounds exactly like this: quiet, honest, and achingly aware of everything slipping away.