Are You Happy Now?

Where the previous song mourns quietly, this one arrives with a bruised kind of anger that's just barely keeping itself together. The electric guitar has more edge here — a riff that coils with tension before releasing into a chorus that feels like finally saying something you've been swallowing for months. The production leans into a fuller rock palette: punchy drums, layered guitars that create a wall of controlled frustration rather than chaos. Branch's vocal delivery shifts from the wounded softness she's capable of into something more confrontational, her phrasing clipped and pointed, almost percussive in its rhythm. But what makes the song interesting is that the anger is never pure — underneath it is the still-tender evidence of caring too much, of asking a question that only matters if the answer does. The lyrical core circles around a relationship where one person's emotional unavailability became its own slow cruelty, and the question in the title is not rhetorical so much as desperate: a final attempt to get a real answer before walking away. This came at a moment when young women in rock were allowed to be sharp without being dismissed, and Branch inhabited that space with instinctive confidence. It belongs in headphones during the specific kind of long walk you take when you're too wired to sit still and too tired to talk to anyone.