"Ran Out Of Love" by Abz Winter
Review
The indefatigable Abz Winter is back tomorrow with her second single of 2025 called "Ran Out Of Love" (following "Tired Of You")
In her inimitable style she skips effortlessly from a bass heavy riff through something more resembling heavy rock into her trademark (well it is these days & she's all the better for having found it & developed it) pop-punk style which itself certainly fits onto the dance spectrum. You certainly can't say that she is a prisoner of a single genre.
In fact Abz clearly has no desire to be cornered & restrained by anything if she can help it and this song (as with most of her output) both articulates this & urges liberation on others.
The specific target this time round is "…the current dating scene.." and she has this to say of it: "my music is written about my life situations, of which there have been a few… this song is written to encourage people to be sassy and confident in their own skin especially in today's dating scene…you hook up with someone and they quickly bombard you with loads of attention, affection, gifts and stuff and then it just stops. I love belting this out ….and feel it's very relatable".
Written with producer Bruce Rintoul, of course it is relatable: this is Abz Winter and she sings always of real people, whether herself or those she knows (or observes) rather than the vague abstractions so popular with mainstream pop singers. This is a very grounded artist but also one who I think wishes to change the world for the better.
And she's one whose knack of writing an infectious tune, evident from her first recorded work simply continues. Long may it do so.
Quite when the superb sequence of singles Abz keeps crafting will earn her the success I've long felt she is due is less certain.
A sort of surface feistiness is often evident in the public persona of those who do make it: but it's usually only an outer layer over something more conventional & less threatening. I suspect that the industry & individuals within it may be a little scared of someone as consistently genuine as Abz. They probably are right to be frightened.
