Review: "Home Is Where The Heart Is (Broken)" - Rachel Newnham
- Tessa Maddaloni
- Sep 10
- 2 min read
Home should be a place of comfort and relaxation. A place where you can feel at peace and supported, where nothing bad can reach you. However, once an experience or event has tainted the pure image of home and harmony, it is hard to get back to what you used to love so much. This month, Rachel Newnham released a single titled “Home Is Where The Heart Is (Broken)” about this feeling. Newnham feels this way about her hometown, Southport, England, as it is the place where the 2024 stabbings occurred at a Taylor Swift themed dance class, where three young girls lost their lives and many others were left injured. Newnham wrote this track about those three girls, and about how home no longer feels safe, just a memory of the tragedies.
All proceeds collected by “Home Is Where The Heart Is (Broken)” will be sent to the foundations created by the girls’ families, as a way to honor them. The story of this song starts with Newnham on the train ride home, dreading reaching the city she grew up in. Throughout the chorus and the verses, she shifts the focus onto the three young girls who lost their lives, Elsie, Bebe, and Alice. She sings about what their lives could have been, and how the city and their families are now forever changed. She sings lines like “You could’ve been 19 / Dancing in the street lights / 21, moving to the city alone”, and talks about how they could have grown up to find love and friendships, and passion, and yet all of this was taken away from them.
Rachel Newnham is a rising singer-songwriter from Southport, England, now based in London. She was raised in a musical family, finding love for this art at a young age. Her debut single was released in 2023, and since then has released multiple throughout her career. When asked why she began to make music, Newnham shared “With everything that’s gone on in the world in the past few years, I think it’s definitely taught me that life can be so short and we don’t know what’s round the corner, so why do something I don’t enjoy!” As clearly seen with this song, music is a way to share your thoughts and emotions, and can help people come together in times of need. Make sure to follow the social medias below to stay tuned for more music from Rachel Newnham.
Written By Tessa Maddaloni
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