Singing with intimacy, ROE is back with her new single, “Cold Feet,” a stirring indie piano pop ballad as honest as it is haunting. ROE lets us into the most private parts of her brain and reveals the silent wars that rage in us all. “Cold Feet” is a confession. It’s the internal monologue of someone who’s wrestling with feelings of self-doubt, fear, and the oh-so-familiar pain of impostor syndrome. But there’s no melodrama here. Instead, we get raw emotion, unfiltered truth, and a musicality that binds it all together like a quiet, soothing shoulder to cry on.
She lets her voice crack over a bed of sensitive piano in precisely where it’s needed, and leaves that vulnerability out there with the rest, never posturing it out of the way. There’s a hushed bravery in her performance as if she’s singing despite the fear. “Cold Feet” excels in making emotional baggage appear beautifully bearable. It’s easy to picture this song setting the scene for some measure of self-examination, a walk in the rain, a late-night note in a journal, a quiet, somber reckoning. The special part is that the message can apply to many people.
ROE might be sharing her truth, but in doing so, she is tapping into the creeping sense that we’re not enough, and the long, slow struggle to try to believe that we are. On “Cold Feet,” ROE reaffirms that her strongest asset is not only her talent as a musician but her willingness to be authentic. By sharing it, she helps remind us that there’s courage in honesty, even when our foundation still feels unsure beneath us. For anyone out there longing for a quiet catharsis or a small voice that gets the weight of self-doubt, “Cold Feet” is one of those rare songs that seems like it was written just for you.