Emeli Sandé: Daddy

There’s a song that makes you sit with something you weren’t ready to sit with. Emeli Sandé has this way of finding the exact nerve—the quiet, specific ache you’ve been sidestepping. A song about a father isn’t just about a father; it’s about absence and presence at the same time, about what you inherit and what you can’t fix. You listen to it and something in your chest doesn’t move for a few minutes, and that’s the whole point.