Sarah Segal-Lazar’s latest single, “Anything But Age,” unfolds new layers of meaning the longer you spend with them. To mark the 10th anniversary of her debut album, the Canadian singer-songwriter revisits this fan-favorite that’s as intimate as it gets, mining its acoustic origins to create a lush, full-band treatment that preserves its original heartbeat while yet again bringing in her artistic evolution.
Recorded live off the floor on a lovely snowy day, “Anything But Age” captures the raw emotion that comes with reflection and transformation. Weathered with experience but still rich with vulnerability, Sarah’s voice imbues every lyric with the weight of time, making “Anything But Age” feel like marshaling a conversation with the past. It is also a poignant meditation on love, memory , and the quiet realization of how life rearranges us.
“Anything But Age” video that accompanies the single deepens this sentiment. Made entirely of 8mm home footage taken by Sarah’s grandfather from 1949 to 1958, it is a visual love letter to family, nostalgia, and the cyclical nature of time. Noisy, sun-spattered footage of past generations fits perfectly over “Anything But Age” achey melodies, closing a temporal gap from then to now.
“Putting out this song ten years later feels like finding an old photograph that suddenly has an entirely new meaning,” says Sarah. “And working with my band on this new version was surreal as if I were looking at my younger self from the outside. That sense only gets amplified by the video. It’s like I’m entering my family’s past, recognizing echoes of myself in a time I never inhabited.”
With “Anything But Age,” Segal-Lazar isn’t merely looking back at an old song. She’s letting it evolve with her, demonstrating that music, like memory, is never actually frozen in time.