A Song for the Stars: Simone Eversdjik’s Poignant Tribute in ‘2 Years’

May 24, 2025

A Song for the Stars: Simone Eversdjik’s Poignant Tribute in ‘2 Years’

Grief has a language of its own—one that quakes in laughter and cries in silence. Dutch singer-songwriter Simone Eversdjik has managed to articulate it with her single, “2 Years,” which was released on the 19th of May. This piano ballad is a soft tribute to her mother that unfolds like a letter that could never be sent, but, through the power of emotion and memory, a universal language. Even in the beginning of the piece, listeners are captured in a world that glows but is also shadowed, cradled by love and nestled in absence.

The song’s opening breathes with a delicate piano motif that resembles the essence of starting to form a thought. For Simone, awe inspiring saxophone solos that create space for the swelling orchestral textures that perpetually hug the listener. While percussion whispers, then roars, they guide the listeners throughout the dynamic journey. Sound, for her, augments the dusk of the verses into the light of the choruses and marries minor changes into jubilant affirmations—an alteration that manifests like the sunlight piercing the horizon after a sleepless night.

Simone effortlessly transcends the boundaries of past trauma as she devastatingly takes you through the darker parts of her life: a form of catharsis. However, her empathic words and the way she brings life into every syllable seems to draw you closer instead of pushing one away. As the melody is soft and soothing, it remains true that one should pay unparalleled attention while listening to her lyrics.

Simone's works epitomize the fluidity of life; she blends symphony, pop, and soul creating a mixture that is simultaneously expansive and deeply personal. In “2 Years,” listeners experiencing the grieving process can find deeply reflective healing and Simone’s artistry transforms pain into poetry, then memory into melodies. In this particular instance, this enables people to return to beauty without the burden of destroying it in their heartache and grief.