If you’ve ever held in a scream so loud it felt like your chest might split, ettie just let it out for you. Her new single “Jealous of Him,” released March 21, 2025, is a brutal and beautiful gut-punch — the kind of song that hits hardest when you’ve been silently grieving a love no one else even knows existed. With crashing guitars, pop punk fury, and lyrics steeped in unspoken heartbreak, ettie isn’t just telling her story — she’s screaming her truth into the void, and hoping someone else out there hears it.
Known for her caffeinated, angsty brand of queer pop punk, ettie has always been a storyteller first. Her music is full of wine-fueled reflections, razor-sharp wit, and the aching honesty of someone who’s lived with existential fear and fought to make peace with herself. She’s got Patti Smith in her blood, Shakespeare in her brain, and the kind of lyrical flair that only comes from years of writing through pain, repression, and resilience. And “Jealous of Him” might just be her most emotionally exposed track yet.
The single is a scorned anthem — not of being left behind but of being left in the shadows. It’s the heartbreak that dares not speak its name, watching someone you loved openly embrace someone else while you’re still hiding the scars they left behind. There’s no closure in secrets, and “Jealous of Him” is ettie finally tearing the lid off a past she was never allowed to mourn in the light. It’s not just about heartbreak — it’s about invisibility. And when she howls over buzzing guitars and crashing drums, you feel the ache of every buried word she couldn’t say before.
In the lineage of Avril Lavigne’s middle-finger ballads and the emotional pyrotechnics of early Paramore, ettie’s sound is both familiar and fiercely her own. There’s grit, there’s melody, and there’s the kind of vulnerability that would make even the most jaded punk purist pause. But unlike many of her influences, ettie’s queerness isn’t coded — it’s front and center, part of the DNA of every chorus, every verse, every scream. This isn’t just a pop-punk song. It’s a queer catharsis.
And if anyone’s earned the right to shout from the rooftops, it’s ettie. Less than a year ago, in May 2024, she fell from a height and broke her neck and spine in a near-fatal accident. She came within millimeters of being paralyzed. That brush with death changed everything. As she lay in the hospital, grappling with the fragility of life and the mental barriers she’d long internalized, she realized just how much she had been holding herself back. Since then, her music has carried a new weight — still full of glitter and cheek, but now with the soul of someone who knows just how quickly everything can slip away.
“Jealous of Him” is that awareness poured into three and a half minutes of raw, confessional release. It’s a song for anyone who’s had to bite their tongue at a breakup that no one else ever knew was real. For anyone who’s watched an ex move on publicly while they mourned privately. For anyone who’s had to love in the margins.
ettie has always been about owning her story, but this time, she’s owning the silence that came before. Her music is confetti at a party, sure — but it’s also the quiet moment after, staring at the stars and realizing you’ve survived. With “Jealous of Him,” she gives voice to the heartbreaks that happen behind closed doors, and in doing so, she makes them — and us — seen.
