Growing up, Rye LaChance wrote hundreds of songs with the intention of keeping them private. It was after her best friend passed away that she decided to start sharing her music with the world, as this friend had always encouraged her to do so. After posting clips of her songs online, producers Mike Robinson and Rence helped bring Rye’s debut single, “Windows of Normandy,” to life. She then went on to release a couple more singles, while “Windows of Normandy” was named one of Spotify’s “Best Songs of 2024.” Maybe her new single “My Father and Me” will be named one of Spotify’s “Best Songs of 2025.”
A confessional track about parent-child relationships, “My Father and Me” plays out like a movie. Throughout the track, Rye is accompanied by acoustic guitar and the sounds of sweet strings as she recounts how she viewed her father from adolescence into adulthood. Early on in the song, she sings, “When you’re 16 and your enemy is the man who lives in your home / And you’re balancing the reality that his anger lives deep in your bones,” wishing that she will not turn out like him. Later on, after some life experience, she switches her tune and observes, “When you’re 21 and you’re growing up / You embrace all the things you can’t fix,” choosing to accept who she is instead of living in doubt and contempt.
Telling us more about the single, Rye shares,
“‘My Father and Me’ is a song that follows my rocky relationship with my father over the course of several years. Writing it was a way for me to come to terms with my pain and turn it into something meaningful that I could carry as I healed those parts of me.”
You can listen to “My Father and Me” here.
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