Move over Beyoncé and Jay Z - there's a new heartache album in town.
The debut album from Christchurch band Decades is about what happens when you tear your own world apart, then realise how necessary it was.
The Truth and Other People chronicles the breakdown of frontwoman Emma Cameron's seven-year relationship, as she met someone new.
"It's a heartbreak - but also a kind of heart-win story," she told Newshub.
Together Cameron and guitarist Liam wrote the entire album about it - starting from the break-up everyone warned her against and ending with the knowledge that she had made the right choice.
"I can't shy away from it. People are going to want to know what the songs are about," Cameron said.
"I can't say, 'Oh, nah, just figure it out for yourself', or try and protect the feelings of people involved, even though it is kind of awkward.
"But we aren't going to write songs about things that aren't real to us. Just deal with it!"
Cameron's used to putting it all out there, through her blog Good for a Girl - named after someone once told her she plays guitar "good for a girl".
It's about her experience as a woman in rock from the good, to the downright sexist.
"A guy came up to me after the show who owned one of the venues and said he didn't like my outfit because I was dressed too provocatively, and he didn't like my ripped tights," she said.
In a way Decades' debut album is a rejection of all that "what a woman should be, should do" stuff, Cameron said.
It's about what happens when a girl rips her world apart then puts it all back together.
Newshub.
