Reigns releases new single ‘Everybody Falls Apart Sometimes’, and let’s be straight: this isn’t a rock record. Not remotely. But great songwriting doesn’t stay inside genre fences, and what Reigns has pulled off here is the kind of emotionally honest work that rock audiences, who have always valued authenticity above everything else, should absolutely be paying attention to.
Strip away the genre tags and what you’ve got is a song rooted in the same soil as the best blues and soul records: lived experience, unfiltered emotion, and a refusal to make grief look prettier than it is. Reigns cites Janis Joplin, Aretha Franklin, and Nina Simone as touchstones, and while those comparisons could easily ring hollow, there’s something genuinely in that lineage here, a rawness, a willingness to leave the wounds open on record.
The track was written, we’re told, in the immediate aftermath of personal loss. It shows in the way that real things feel when they’re put into music slightly uncomfortable, impossible to look away from. The line “bad choices made, good stories in the end” carries the kind of complicated, unflinching love for for someone.
Sonically, it’s orchestral and piano-forward, closer to a classic soul ballad than anything else. Reigns has built something that endures.