Breakups are a great genre of songwriting because there’s so much possibility for drama and creating a story.”Īs Maloney considered all the great breakup songs already in the world, she realized there was something missing. “And, you know, it’s such a juicy human topic.
“I was kind of taking stock and realizing I hadn’t ever written a breakup song before,” says the Western Massachusetts singer-songwriter. Which is how she ended up inventing a breakup in order to write a song about it. “I started having a lot more fun with it,” she says. (“I’m afraid to get a tattoo,” she says, “so I just put it in a song.”) But at some point, Maloney started to loosen up. She would write songs to remind herself of mistakes she’d made and patterns she wanted to break. For a long time, songwriting was almost a form of therapy for Heather Maloney.
