"Cry For You" by Isabel LaRosa? Steven says 4/5

Isabel LaRosa’s “Cry For You” feels like spiraling in your childhood bedroom with the lights off, mascara smudged, and the ghost of your ex haunting your FYP. Yeah, it’s technically a breakup song—but it hits way deeper. It’s about grief, distance, and that hollow, gut-sinking feeling of knowing you can’t go home again. Like in her song “Home,” where she talks about her family moving away and watching her siblings grow up without her—“Cry For You” carries that same sad girl energy. It’s heartbreak layered with homesickness and an identity crisis.

The production is full-on cinematic depressioncore. Her vocals are soft and ghostly, floating over a beat that feels like the emotional climax of a movie where the main character stares out of a rainy car window. It gives saying “I’m fine,” but you haven’t eaten all day and your Spotify Wrapped is 90% ballads.

And at just under three minutes? She doesn’t overstay—she just shows up, wrecks your shit, and leaves. Like any good heartbreak.

It’s quiet. It’s devastating. It’s giving Poe-core with a sprinkle of Tumblr trauma. Isabel doesn’t just sing about heartbreak—she lets it echo in that part of you you thought was healed.

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