Since U Been Gone

The track opens with that immediately recognizable electric guitar figure — angular, slightly aggressive, designed to signal rupture. This is a song about the clean side of heartbreak, the moment when grief tips over into exhilaration, when the door slamming behind someone turns out to be the sound of your own freedom. The production is arena-ready: layered guitars, a driving rhythm section, a chorus that opens up wide and bright. In the context of & Juliet, the song acquires an additional dimension, because the person who has left is not just an ex-lover but an entire narrative framework — Romeo, yes, but also everything Romeo represents about how the story was supposed to go. The voice here is post-cry clarity, the kind of singing that only happens after something has been resolved. There is anger in it but the anger has been metabolized into energy. The bridge slows just enough to let the loss register before the final chorus reclaims momentum. Culturally, the song is a landmark in a particular kind of post-breakup pop: not sad, not bitter in a corrosive way, but genuinely electric with the possibility of a self that was waiting on the other side of the relationship. You would reach for this the morning after, windows down, going somewhere new.