Lilly Gitlitz - Nineteen
“Nineteen” captures the rush of memory in a crisp, forward-moving folk-pop spark.
Sometimes it only takes one unexpected encounter to feel like you’ve stepped back in time. In “Nineteen,” Brooklyn singer-songwriter Lilly Gitlitz captures that dizzying moment when the past suddenly feels present again — not in soft nostalgia, but in sharp clarity.
With its crisp, lively folk-pop energy and forward motion, the song mirrors the rush of memory itself: in and out, circling back, refusing to sit still.
Lilly says about the song:
When I was Nineteen, I had a world-bending crush, but didn't tell the person my feelings until nearly five years later when we happened to reunite on a train. Nineteen is about how memory makes time fluid — how a single admission or recounting can send you hurdling back. The past is not static, it is a living breathing being waiting for its turn off the bench.
"Nineteen" is the first song off Lilly Gitlitz's debut EP The Past Is Breathing Now, out on April 10. Listen to our Song Pick of the Day on Apple Music, Spotify, or below on Bandcamp:
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