blue monday is songwriter and singer Carmen Pizarro, born and raised in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Primarily creating music that sits in the indie folk realm, blue monday describes her style of music as “acoustic electropop”, and is influenced by artists like Holly Humberstone, Maggie Rogers and Robyn. Deeply emotional, blue monday draws inspiration from the intersection of love and sadness, the mortifying ordeal of being known¹, and every body of water to ever exist. She blends layered harmonies with stripped back instrumentals and lyrical intimacy to draw you into an ache you feel down to your core.

blue monday’s latest single ‘things i never told u’ is an exploration of unrequited love and the fickleness of human memory - the inability to hold onto the things we want to remember, and the torture of never forgetting the things that hurt the most. the songs final, insistent refrain asks the haunting question, “how can it be over if I can’t forget? how can it be over if i can’t forget? how can it be over if i can’t forget? how can it be over if i can’t forget?”