Dora Jar is no newcomer to making waves. Fresh off her announcement as the opener for Gracie Abrams. The Secret of Us tour, an announcement that may have caused a bit of controversy, Jar is back to moving the conversation back to where it belongs her music. And her new single, "Lucky," proves patience is rewarded.
Five years in the making, Lucky is a tender, dreamy love song folded into the whispery intimacy that makes Dora Jar's music so uncommonly entrancing. With ethereal vocals swimming above shimmering acoustic guitar, "Lucky" resembles a soft confession murmured within darkness. But this is not a storybook, fairy-tale love. This love has been much smoother and firmer through the wringer and back on the other side.
Jar establishes the scene with an epigraph of a moment after an argument, "I had a very scary dream you were gone Woke in a panic on the couch with the TV on." It's raw and honest, the kind of detail that makes her songwriting feel so singular but universal. But instead of lingering in the fight, "Lucky" dissolves into acceptance, the chorus a quiet yet potent epiphany, "Thinking about you, I feel lucky." It's a feeling that sneaks up on you the quiet joy of knowing that love is here to stay, even after the difficult moments.
"Writing "Lucky" was so healing," Jar wrote on Instagram following "Lucky" release. And hearing "Lucky" makes it hard not to feel that healing. If this is the type of magic Dora Jar has been working on for five years, we'll be here, waiting as long as it takes for whatever's first to come next.