Amber Monroe: “My Obsession Was Me.” Review of ANNA VEE’s Honesty
Amber Monroe is a fearless and daring writer, marketing maven, music lover, and wife from Southern California. All boundaries shattered, nothing held back.
I wasn’t ready for Honesty when it hit my feed at 2 a.m.—but damn, did it hit. I was sprawled across my kitchen floor in my ex’s hoodie, drunk off Malbec and bad decisions, texting the wrong person and pretending it was just “closure.” Then that opening line slid through my speaker: “Should I follow my heart? / My biggest fear is to not to.”
I wasn’t spiraling—I was romanticizing. There’s a difference. The wine was warm, my phone was at 2 %, and I was six months deep into stalking his new girl like it was a full-time job. But that first line cracked something open. It didn’t just hit—it exposed me. Every ignored red flag, every time I chose hope over truth. Suddenly, I wasn’t obsessed with him anymore. I was obsessed with me… waking the fuck up.
ANNA VEE isn’t whispering pain in this track—she’s snarling it through a silk scarf. She’s sultry, defiant, and done with the sweet-talking fuckboys who think a half-drunk apology makes up for being a two-faced “smooth fuckah.” And yeah, she says that exact line—and if that doesn’t make you want to scream-sing it from your fire escape, I don’t know what will.
The song plays like a breakup confession you record in the notes app but never send. A low, sexy beat pulses underneath lyrics that are equal parts vulnerable and venomous. ANNA’s voice—think Toni Braxton after a bottle of wine and a week of ghosting—drips with heartbreak and heat. She doesn’t beg. She bares it all and sings, “Don’t make things up / Enough is enough” like a woman who’s said it too many times, and this time—this time—means it.
And the way she delivers it? It’s effortless as if she’s lived every lyric and still walked out in heels. That’s what makes this track different. It’s not just technically flawless—it’s emotionally earned. Swedish artist ANNA VEE has been building toward this moment since relocating to Stockholm in 2016, quietly racking up playlist placements, landing a Billboard feature, and teasing her upcoming EP this May. But Honesty doesn’t feel like a calculated rollout. It feels lived-in. Dangerous. A slow burn turned wildfire. And if this is just the prelude to her debut album this October? We’re in trouble.
There’s something almost cinematic about this track. One second she’s floating through “I fell down from the stars / So I can be right here with you,” and the next, she’s cutting deep: “Have you always been this guy?” That switch? That whiplash between devotion and devastation? That’s what it feels like to realize the person you built your whole fucking world around is a stranger.
But she doesn’t end it in ashes. The final verse is straight-up liberation: “I am a work of art / If I am with or without you.” That line cracked my spine open. It’s not just a breakup song. It’s a reclamation spell. A glittery little middle finger dipped in honey. She’s bleeding, but she’s smiling—and I live for that kind of chaos.
So if you’ve ever sat on the edge of your bathtub with glitter still stuck to your collarbone and tears drying on your cheeks, wondering if he even cared—Honesty is your anthem. It’s the soundtrack to your unblocking-him-just-to-leave-him-on-read era. It’s sexy, raw, and real as hell. No metaphors. No filters. ANNA VEE drops the kind of truth that tastes like revenge and sounds like freedom.
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