"Cold Shoulder": Daisy Briggs Finds Strength in Letting Go
There is something noble in confronting one's past without bitterness, but with dignity—a still strength that never weakens with age. For Daisy Briggs, dignity has been her hallmark. Rooted in the creative soil of Nashville, she has learned to transform heartache into art, extracting her memories with warmth and candor to make them seem ostensibly human. As with the icons who have shaped her voice—Miranda Lambert's fire, Sheryl Crow's independence, Sam Hunt's honesty—Briggs floats nimbly in her songs with poetic beauty, all of them carrying what she has learned along the way. They are no longer love stories, but self-portraits in progress, marking the forms that becoming cuts.
Her new single, "cold shoulder," is the music of a woman reclaiming power. Moving beyond an actual romance—one that teetered on the edge of being somewhere in between friendship and maybe more—Briggs brings personal experience to broad truth. The tune wanders like a hot summer afternoon, weighed down with longing but filled with newfound consciousness. You can almost picture summer sun to set, tan lines blur, white tee put away with yesterday's wistfulness. Recorded with Jordan Davis, the song shines with soft fingers—melodic, wistful, and categorically free. Briggs herself regards it as an ode to surrendering to man approval, a nod of appreciation that the real privilege is to be in her world, and not the reverse.
The accompanying video places us in the middle of Briggs: her truck, roads, silence. With her cruising down rolling rural roads, freedom fills every shot. She laughs, sings, breathes once more. The stress of having to be chosen is removed; she chooses herself instead. When she hangs up on the man who can't take a hint, it isn't because she's got an axe to grind—it's because she has self-respect. There is a parched, inward happiness there that passes over anyone who's ever had to establish a boundary and keep it.
In the end, "cold shoulder" is not a breakup song—it's a pronouncement of boundaries, self-confidence, and the brilliance that comes when you finally quit seeking permission to shine. Daisy Briggs has made her life a mirror, showing what too many women already know in their very belly: strength doesn't always make a loud voice; sometimes, it just smiles and drives off. With this one single track alone, Briggs is at last in her entirety—glistening, radiating, and more unapologetically herself than ever.
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