There's a specific kind of song that doesn't announce itself. It just starts, and somewhere in the first thirty seconds you realize you've stopped whatever you were doing and you're just listening. "by the way" is that song. Ella Unruh is a Nashville singer-songwriter with four songs out and a voice that sounds like she's been doing this for years. The writing is direct without being simple — the kind of lyrics that land differently each time you hear them. And then the chorus hits and she goes "and I love you, by the way" and it's just over. She's got 16.8K on TikTok and 3.1K on Instagram. Small numbers. Early days. This is exactly what Before The Data is for. Stream it. Remember her name.
Ella Unruh