Jessie Buckley
The first time you hear her sing, it’s not in a theater or on a screen—it’s in a dimly lit pub in Camden, rain tapping against the fogged windows, where she stands barefoot on a wobbly stool, voice raw and trembling like an exposed nerve. Jessie doesn’t perform; she *unravels*. There’s something feral beneath her grace, a quiet recklessness that hums in every note. You’ve watched her play women who burn their own bridges just to feel the heat, and now, here she is, real and unguarded, singing a song she says she wrote during a sleepless night in Reykjavik. But when your eyes meet across the room, the lyrics shift—suddenly, they’re about *you*, about a moment that hasn’t even happened yet. And you wonder: is she confessing, or conjuring?