Indie artist goodheart returns with “Stuck in a Cloud,” a restless, upbeat reflection on emotional limbo. Blending shimmering indie-rock with raw lyrical honesty, the track captures the feeling of being somewhere between apathy and angst – what goodheart calls “a total blah.”

“I wrote ‘Stuck in a Cloud’ on a day when I was home alone for a week,” says goodheart. “I was feeling stir-crazy, but also too apathetic to do anything about it. I had set out to write a different song, but this one came out of nowhere – fast and fully formed.”

The title flips the expression “on cloud nine” into something more ambiguous. “Clouds can represent joy or gloom depending on the context,” she explains. “To be stuck in one is to hover in between – not exactly happy, not really sad either.”

Originally imagined as a slower acoustic piece, the track evolved in the studio thanks to drummer Connor, guitarist Mitch, and bassist Ryan, whose bouncing bass line helped push the song into more dynamic territory. “That indie-rock backbone gave it a pulse we didn’t know it needed. Once that clicked, everything else came to life,” she says.