Irish alt-pop artist Ocean Tisdall has just shared his brand new single Making It Easy, a heartfelt alt-pop gem rich with raw emotion and vulnerability.
‘Making It Easy’ was written in my kitchen with my friend and co-writer Nina, right after a short phone call with my mother. We’d been talking about a relationship that had just ended, and I said how easy I’d made it for the other person to leave me.
On the walk home, I started to reflect. I realised that, without even knowing it, I had made it easy – because I loved them. And when you truly love someone, you put their emotional needs above your own, even if doing so feels like it’s breaking you. In that moment, I wrote a line in my phone: ‘My last act of love was making it easy for you to leave me.’
Nina came over not long after. She picked up her guitar and played the first few chords, and we wrote the song around that – around the feeling of stepping aside quietly so someone else can walk away without guilt or pain.
A few days later, I flew to Edinburgh to work with my producer, Prentice. We built the song out to what it is now. Personally it’s the hardest one for me to listen to – it feels like stepping back into that exact moment it all happened, like watching myself from across the room…’
