Grace Graber is inviting listeners to live their lives to the fullest with her inspiring new song, "No Regrets." The song is the latest from her upcoming album The Breakthrough, and is available to stream here.
For Grace, the song is a challenge to herself as much as anyone, a reminder to reassess her priorities whenever she notices the hustle culture inherent in the music industry threatening to take over her life.
"Many times, people will spend their whole life working for something, only to get to the end of their life and go, 'I wish I would've spent more time with my family. I wish I would've spent more time prioritizing the things that matter: my spiritual health, my mental health,' the things I too often sacrifice for personal or career gain," Grace reflects. "The song is a big check myself. It's coming out at a time where I've been really working on healing my inner child, and I feel like I finally learned this, and it's tangible now. When I wrote 'No Regrets,' I wanted my church family and my community to mean more to me than my music."
The song was originally written during the sessions for the Conversations EP. After initially writing "No Regrets" and working on it with producer Blake Cross, Grace felt the second verse needed another voice. So she called in rapper Peabod, who wrote and rapped to finish out the sunny track.
"We all hopped on a call, and originally I was thinking, 'Oh, let's just take that second verse and make it a Peabod-style verse," Grace recalls. "He said, 'No, let's keep it full punk. I'm going to meet you on your level.' And it was just really cool to see someone I admire and look up to like my style and want to match it."
"No Regrets" follows up the triumphant "Grace of God," "SOLO," and "Breakthrough." All of these songs are building into the full album release later this year. Even as her momentum continues to build, this song is a reminder of where the singer is staying rooted, of all the ways she knows that breakthrough can show up.
She challenges, "Where are your priorities? What are you putting first, what are you learning, and how are you taking what you're learning and applying it to your life? And how are you using it to show yourself that you're not stuck?"
