Raveena returns with 'Blissed Out', a single about the year after loss
Her first release of 2026, out September 16, written after the death of her mother and the hardest year she says she has had.
BY JOLT Staff · SEP 18 2026 · 1 min read'Blissed Out' is Raveena at her least guarded. It runs 3:58 and spends nearly all of it on a year she calls one of the hardest of her life. The title sounds like a promise. It is where the song ends up.
Her records so far: Lucid (2019), Asha's Awakening (2022), Where the Butterflies Go in the Rain (2024). Then came 2025, and the loss of her mother.
“'Blissed out' (in contrast with its title) is one of my most vulnerable songs I've put out, about the aftermath of grief and loss. I had one of the hardest years of my life in 2025 and wanted to let fans meet me where I was at in the midst of all that change and pain.”
She came back to music and worked through it, and the song came out of that. It keeps the alt-R&B frame she has built and lets something naked and direct into the room. She calls it one of her most vulnerable songs, and says she wanted fans to meet her where she was.
The sound is spectral alt-R&B; the surprise is how plain it gets. The lyric sits wracked with pain rather than phrased for comfort. By the end the song is moving: the freeway, the club, crying and feeling all of it at once. That last stretch is where the title earns itself.
It is for people who keep R&B around for the words, and for anyone who has had a year they could not explain until later.
What it does not do is give the next phase anything to stand on. One song, 3:58, and a claim about transformation the track never demonstrates. The title reads as irony until the song turns.
Still, it is a good song and an honest one. Grief is the material, and the release is earned. That is a 3.5: the turn lands, and one song cannot prove a direction. The next release settles it.
