With her latest single “Nobody Stays,” emerging alt-pop artist XTINE delivers one of her most emotionally raw and musically ambitious works to date. The track dives deep into the complexities of mental health, love, and self-sabotage, offering listeners an unfiltered yet beautiful glimpse into the internal battles many face but few dare to articulate. As she continues to establish her voice in a crowded musical landscape, XTINE stands out not just for her production skills but for her fearless honesty.
She builds the song around the raw reality of borderline personality disorder, refusing to sanitize or soften the emotional highs and lows. Each verse pulls you deeper into the swirl of connection and disintegration while the chorus hits with a haunting question: “Will I keep you, or will I end up pushing you?” XTINE doesn’t offer answers, only the unfiltered truth of what it feels like to live with that fear.
Her journey, though still unfolding, already shows a relentless drive. XTINE started making music at 11. Years later, she caught Sia’s attention, collaborated with producers like Yoad Nevo and Megan Wilde, and built a body of work that refuses to conform to genre. On “Nobody Stays,” she weaves influences from Sia, Sleeping at Last, and Björk into something unmistakably her own: emotional maximalism with surgical control.
The music video strips things down to the creative core: just XTINE, a mic, a pen, and a pulse. Instead of hiding behind production tricks, she lets the real process take center stage. You can see what the studio means to her: not just a place to record, but a lifeline. And beyond the video, she uses the single as a springboard for conversation, launching an online campaign (#NobodyStays) that invites fans to speak openly about mental health.
XTINE doesn’t write songs to please an algorithm. She writes to survive. And in “Nobody Stays,” she offers something rare in pop music today: not just vulnerability, but vision that doesn’t fade and, definitely, doesn’t stay silent.
