Ex-Girlfriend

There’s that moment in a song where you recognize yourself in someone else’s regret, and suddenly you’re remembering someone you hadn’t thought about in months. Emilio Rojas has that pull—the way he sits into a melody about wanting back what he lost, not because he’s particularly clever about it, but because he sounds like he actually means it. It’s the kind of track that plays in a car late enough that you don’t immediately skip it, and by the second verse you’re just sitting with it, thinking about who this is really for. The specificity of the title—not just a song about missing someone, but specifically about an ex, about that particular flavor of regret—is honest in a way that a lot of music isn’t.