Annabelle Tiffin On “Currents”: Growing Up & Learning to Breathe

Annabelle Tiffin Shifting Currents – That’s Where the Future Starts

I keep thinking about what many people do at sixteen. Most chase noise, quick wins, crowded feeds, or a version of themselves they can sell by Friday. Annabelle Tiffin went the other way. She sat with a feeling, shaped it, and then put it into a real recording. That choice sits at the centre of Currents. As I feel it, it comes along like a private page left half-open on purpose. I recognise that feeling. It’s personal, bruised, and still moving.

What hits first in the lyrics is the tension between softness and survival. She opens with a ghost “with a halo,” which already tells me she’s writing about someone idealised, someone gone, or someone still haunting the room even while the body stays in bed. Then Annabelle that line that makes the difference: she doesn’t know the rules of “the living or the undead.”

The lyrics speak from a place of uncertainty and fatigue, in the most honest way. That’s teenage grief and confusion without the theatre. It feels like waking up and realising your old map doesn’t work anymore.

Annabelle says it herself in the chorus – “I’ve been falling for a while” and she lets that feeling sit there. That pairing matters. It shows awareness rather than collapse. By the final stretch, the language turns toward anchors, shipwrecks, and currents. Not to turn it into drama, but to recognise what’s there. She allows herself to drift, and chooses to move forward with the tide instead of pushing against it.

Annabelle Tiffin wrote Currents at fourteen, during middle school, while learning how to hold pressure without showing it. I hear that tension straight away. The lyrics trace absence, memory, and self-control, then settle into real scenes. Bleachers with one friend, street corners, a warm bed that feels heavier than it should. And those places matter here. They belong to someone still figuring out how to stand in public, while doing most of the work privately.

Another thing that stands out is that Annabelle grew up between places. Hong Kong, Singapore, the US, Australia, Taiwan. That’s probably why I feel this sense of motion showing up in how she writes. She’s been writing songs since ten, and you can hear the restraint in Currents.

Away from the page, things are already moving. Annabelle is set to perform this July at the Tainmu Beer Festival in Taipei, stepping onto a stage in front of thousands. Currents also appears in the Prime film F Valentine’s Day, featured in both the film and end credits ahead of its February 6th, 2026 release.

If it caught you the way it caught me, find Annabelle Tiffin where the work keeps unfolding – Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, Spotify. Stay close. The current’s still moving.

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