Sonnet ‘Wishing For Rain’ – out now!
On “Wishing for Rain,” Sonnet dials down the show-stopping belts that made her a household name and turns inward. The result is her most personal work yet: a piano-driven ballad written, composed, and produced entirely by the artist herself. It’s a brave pivot, less about spectacle than atmosphere, less about resolution than persistence.
The track’s emotional core comes from an offhand comment her mother made on a rainy afternoon: wishing the storm would intensify enough to wash everything away. That image becomes the skeleton of the song, fleshed out by Sonnet’s hushed verses and explosive chorus. She asks, “If it’s not the rain, but if it were you, could I forget you?”—a line that captures both the futility and necessity of longing.
“Wishing for Rain” thrives in its restraint. The production is skeletal, the vocal performance deliberately frayed at the edges, and the lyrics resist easy closure. By pulling back rather than pushing forward, Sonnet finds a new power—an intensity in understatement.
