If your life flashed before your eyes, would you still want your life to end?
This is the question that echoes at the core of Right Before the Fall, the stunning and unflinching new single from rising UK artist Liv Cartier. It’s not just a song — it’s a confrontation with the fragility of existence, a tribute to those standing at the edge, and a call to speak out when silence feels safer.
Hailing from Liverpool via Manchester, Liv Cartier is quickly becoming known for her unique brand of dark pop — a genre she reshapes into something deeply human and emotionally charged. With a voice that’s both ethereal and raw, Liv’s music navigates the inner landscapes of mental health, anxiety, trauma, and the quiet resilience it takes to keep going. Right Before the Fall, set for release on July 29, 2025, is arguably her most personal and powerful offering yet.
❝Tell me what you dream of, right before you die.❞
That haunting lyric didn’t come from a place of fiction — it came from lived experience. Right Before the Fall was born out of watching people she deeply cares about struggle with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), bipolar disorder, anxiety, and depression. It’s about the fear of “that call” — the one you dread but prepare yourself for when you know someone is suffering deeply.
“There have been times where I feared I’d lose them,” Liv shares. “When someone you love is facing something so heavy and all you can do is stand by… it’s one of the worst feelings in the world.”
But this isn’t just a song of sorrow — it’s a testament to loyalty, love, and the will to hold space for others, even when you’re powerless to fix their pain. It’s a raw reminder that showing up — truly, consistently, vulnerably — can be the most radical act of all.
Pulling Everything to the Edge
Sonically, Right Before the Fall mirrors the emotional extremities it speaks of. The production pushes everything to the limits — especially Liv’s vocal — to evoke the overwhelming mental pressure that often accompanies mental illness. The vocals are intentionally intense, teetering on the edge between beauty and collapse, just like the people and stories it was written for.
This intensity isn’t gratuitous. It’s empathic. It’s a translation of the unspeakable: what it feels like to be barely holding on, to scream inside while smiling outside. Liv Cartier isn’t just telling a story — she’s creating a mirror, one that reflects what so many people go through silently.
More Than Music — A Mission
For Liv, this song is part of something much bigger: the rewriting of how we talk about mental health. “There’s such a stigma around being open and vulnerable. But it’s strong — and healthy — to talk. We need to say that louder.”
Her music, and especially her live shows, are designed to be safe spaces, where vulnerability is not just welcomed — it’s celebrated. She’s not afraid to shatter the polished façades we build online and offline, insisting that we acknowledge what’s behind the filters: real people with real battles.
Liv Cartier is part of a new wave of artists unafraid to hold the darkness and the light at once. Her world is one where glamour coexists with insecurity, where performance doesn’t mask pain, but reveals truth. Her previous single Golden introduced us to her poetic vulnerability. Right Before the Fall takes that honesty to an entirely new level.
A Voice for the Ones Who Stay
Liv Cartier is not just singing for herself. She’s singing for everyone who has ever felt like they’re too much, not enough, or simply breaking under the weight of being alive.
She’s singing for the friends we’ve tried to save, the nights we held our breath, the messages we didn’t know how to write, and the people we love who are still fighting — or who couldn’t anymore.
In a time where so much music feels disposable, Right Before the Fall is a statement — a song that dares to feel too much, care too deeply, and say what many are too afraid to admit:
“You are not alone. You are heard. You are still here.”
And that might just be enough to keep someone from falling.
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