Zyah Belle may be happily in love in real life, but she knows all too well how a broken heart feels. She’s poured her past experiences with heartache into her recent releases. After delivering a scathing read to a man she couldn’t trust on “LYIN,” Belle returns with her lovelorn new single “1-800 Heartbreak.”
On “1-800 Heartbreak,” Zyah yearns for attention and affection from a potential lover. She’s ready to dive in heart first, but she’s ultimately unsure where things stand between them. Produced by SEPH, she lays it all out on the line over slinky synths and programmed drums.
“Tell me it’s true / When you say that you feel the same way / That I feel about you / Don’t play with my heart / I need you to make a move / Can’t afford to put my heart on the line,” Belle soulfully muses on the opening verse. She dreams about them being together, but that fantasy crashes into reality on the chorus when she can’t even get him to pick up the phone. “I hope you call me, baby / I hope you call,” she passionately wails.
Director Jacob Rink picks up the song’s telephone theme in the “1-800 Heartbreak” music video. At the clip’s onset, Zyah is getting her makeup touched up but her mind is elsewhere when she places a call that goes unanswered. The scene switches to shots of Belle in full glam singing into an antique French-style princess phone.
Her longing leaps off the screen in all her scenes while we see the man she’s pining over by himself seemingly deep in thought. Zyah appears on a television screen in his room in a “1-800 Heartbreak” infomercial, but he still doesn’t make a call. He does, however, make a move to see her face-to-face with a rose in hand – at least in her fantasy world. The visual ends with a hard reality check when she receives a sassy voicemail from this dude who sounds more like a dud.
From “LYIN” to “1-800 Heartbreak,” Zyah Belle continues to articulate the spectrum of feelings associated with rocky relationships. As she rolls out her forthcoming new project, we can’t wait to hear where her pen goes next. Listen to “1-800 Heartbreak” and watch its video below.
