‘People Watching’ - SAM FENDER

Sam Fender doesn’t really do half-measures, and “People Watching” might be his most gut-punching single yet. On the surface, it’s classic Fender territory: heartland rock muscle, saxophones soaring over a widescreen chorus, and that Springsteen DNA pulsing through every bar. But peel back the production, and what you get is something far more fragile—a raw, open-letter elegy to Annie Orwin, the late mentor and surrogate mother figure who helped push him onto the path he’s on today.