With her third single ‘Feel Alright’, Melbourne’s Shani Weiss offers a lifeline. It’s the kind of track that arrives like a handwritten letter in a digital world: personal, warm, and deeply human. Dripping with vintage pop flair and underpinned by a quietly radiant groove, this is Weiss at her most honest and uplifting.
Written in the emotional whirlwind of pregnancy, loneliness, and a world tilted off its axis, ‘Feel Alright’ blooms from a moment of quiet kindness, the small miracle of being truly seen. It’s a thank you, a love letter, and a soft anthem to resilience all at once. There’s an unmistakable sincerity in the way Weiss delivers each line, capturing the gravity of vulnerability with an easy grace that recalls early Norah Jones or the late Amy Winehouse in her gentler moods.
The instrumentation is rich yet unintrusive, allowing her vocals to glide atop glistening keys, laid-back rhythms, and that unmistakable retro hue that colours all her work. But while the aesthetic feels like a nod to the past, the message is rooted firmly in the now, in navigating today’s heaviness with open-hearted determination. It’s pop with purpose, sunshine for the soul, and a gentle hand on your back when you need it most.
What truly makes ‘Feel Alright’ resonate is the way it refuses to sugar-coat the struggle. Instead, it celebrates the beauty that still blooms in the cracks, the kind of emotional realness that has earned Weiss her acclaim across Melbourne’s indie scene and beyond. It’s easy to see why she’s become a mainstay on national radio and a double winner of RSOM’s Outstanding Achievement award: she writes songs that feel like they were meant just for you.
As she looks toward her debut EP release, ‘Feel Alright’ serves as a radiant midpoint in Shani Weiss’ artistic journey, a reminder that sometimes, all it takes to keep going is one person who believes in you. For anyone who’s ever been seen in a moment of quiet despair and lifted by love, this one’s for you.
