'Hi My Love': Sofia and the Antoinettes reclaims her pen in yearning letter.
Sofia and the Antoinettes effortlessly turns a piano, the quiet early hours, and a year-long heartbreak into an alt-pop anthem.
The 23-year-old’s first release of 2026 follows last year’s debut EP, WOMEN WHO LOVE TOO MUCH, which marked her as one to watch. On that project, listeners met a rising star with a determination to love and, on ‘Hi My Love’, the songwriter is hit with the consequences of leading with her heart.
The single opens with a flashback: a second date, best dress and rushed kisses, before the high gives way to a hymn-like pre-chorus. “Amen, she’s telling herself lies,” the singer coos with pitiful hindsight.
“There’s a lot about seeing love as religion, which really only happens in unhealthy loves,” she tells The Line of Best Fit. That motif is ever-present across the track’s three minutes with devotion and sin interchanged in the chorus.
It’s in that chorus that ‘Hi My Love’ comes alive. It’s impossible not to be taken by the singer’s yearning as she mourns losing nights spent dancing for 12 head-spinning months of heartbreak. A clip of that moment went viral ahead of release.
The star’s single is laced with hurt but amid the sacrifice, she remains determined to embrace her capacity for love. “God, I really hope you find someone half as devoted,” she delivers with sincerity as the flick reaches its climax.
As the sun rises on the singer and her piano, Sofia and the Antoinettes finds the first feelings of closure. “Spend a lifetime missing her,” she warns her ex, flipping the script on the lost love.
“I couldn’t care less about him,” the singer reflects on the track, first written three years ago. “He’ll hear it and know it’s about him, but I’m fine.”
That’s certainly the feeling that comes in the final lines of ‘Hi My Love’. “Live your life as a poem, I’ll live mine as a poet,” the Sylvia Plath-inspired songwriter closes with the smallest of smirks.
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