With her new single, “Everything You Need,” Mary Mina leads listeners into a personal space of meditation, determination, and awe, but this time, not for another human being, for something even more lasting. “Everything You Need” registers less as a mere track and more as an inviting dialogue between the artist and the landscape that’s helped shape her life.
Inspired by her lifelong love of music and the healing refuge it has provided her with over the years, Mina’s latest is a love letter to melody as medicine. Mina embraces her vulnerability, letting her voice steer the emotional current. There’s a clear authenticity to her voice, a worn-in warmth that can only be held by someone who has truly been held, by the very art she now creates. The lyrics, understated but affecting, provide solace and guidance, much as certain songs on the radio can seem to reach you right when you need them. “Everything You Need” treads the right line between tender and strong. Mina knows the silent power of music, and she uses it so, so well.
“Everything You Need” is a moment of communion, a cuddle for anyone who has ever turned to a song in weary resignation of words. It’s an acknowledgment that music, at its most unadulterated, doesn’t just soundtrack our stories. It helps us write them. In an industry that often thrives on trends and algorithms, Mary Mina’s method is gloriously not. For everyone who has ever felt saved, soothed, or seen by a song, this one’s for you. Mary Mina knows exactly what that feels like, and in “Everything You Need,” she offers a little bit of that healing to others.