Canada’s Jamie Fine has followed her infectious hit “If Anything’s Left” with a decidedly more emotional track, “Mistaken.”
“It’s not supposed to be a pop banger,” Fine told fans in a video she shared on Instagram. “It’s supposed to make you feel something a little different.”
Fine explained that “Mistaken” is about feeling like an outcast. “This song let me forgive a lot of people in my life and forgive myself, and move on,” she said.
The Ottawa native burst onto the scene in 2018 with “Ain’t Easy,” a song she recorded with former musical partner Elijah Woods that was certified double platinum in Canada. In 2020, Fine announced that she was going solo with the release of “Sellout,” a brutally honest track in which she claimed to have “sold my soul to write some songs that I don’t care about.”
Three years later, Fine is putting out songs she believes in. Written with Dani Poppitt and produced by BYNON, “If Anything’s Left” is a feel-good song about falling in love and celebrating happiness. It is currently in the Top 10 on iHeartRadio’s Canada Top 40 and on the cusp of breaking into the Top 40 on the Billboard Canadian Hot 100.
With all eyes (and ears) on Fine, she has the freedom to showcase her versatility and vulnerability.
“None of us is linear in the way in the way that we feel and the way that we think,” she said. “Some days are great and other days are a little harder and being able to have music that helps me through both emotions is something that I want to give back … if I can.”
Fine explained that “Mistaken” describes how she has felt all of her life. “I … constantly had to prove people wrong, prove to people who I am as a human being or who I am as an artist,” said Fine, adding that this has been – and is – exhausting.
“But one of the things that I’ve learned recently is to see that as a superpower rather than a downfall. It can be important to take something that was once a negative in your life and turn it into a positive.”
Fine sings: “All my life, mistaken / left behind, forsaken / I stayed quiet, complacent / Did my time, was patient.”
Poised to become the global superstar she deserves to be (she's set to perform at a festival in South Africa in September), it’s clear that putting in the time and being patient is paying off.