“While You’re At It” by Jessie Murph
Telling someone “while you’re at it” is another way of saying, in this particular case for instance, that since they’re engaged in a certain activity, they might as well take things further by engaging in additional actions, as you instruct them, towards achieving said goal. And sometimes people will use this expression as an act of sarcasm, as Jessie Murph is doing in this piece.
Apparently, the backdrop to this narrative is as so. She and her ex – that being the addressee – broke up some unspecified time ago. The vocalist subsequently reached the point where she was doing okay, until when a couple of weeks ago, at a “party up in Dixon”, here comes her former beau chillin’ up in the place with his new squeeze. Seeing the two of them together instantly sent Jessie’s emotions reeling in a way that she hasn’t been able to recover from since.
For instance, she’s now once again back to hitting the bottle. And what it reads like is at the heart of her melancholy isn’t primarily jealousy and longing, though those emotions do exist, but rather Jessie being under the impression that her ex values this new girl more than he ever did her. Or viewed from a different angle, it’s almost as if the vocalist now feels like in her ex’s mind, their relationship never happened.
“While You’re At It”
That brings us back to the title. What is ultimately being implied, more simply relayed, is that the addressee doesn’t fully appreciate just how much he has hurt the vocalist by moving on to someone else, now in front of her eyes even.
So Jessie is like since he’s going about re-breaking her heart, then ‘while he’s at it’ he might as well drive the nail in the coffin by telling her she “ain’t the one” for example, which is obviously a statement he made to her in the past.
Conclusively, what this story illustrates really is that feelings can linger even after a relationship is dead and buried, so to speak.
Jessie Murph
Jessie Murph is currently a young, up-and-coming singer in the game. As of this writing, she has one song, 2022’s “Pray“, which made some waves around the world. However, the songstress has yet to earn proper global stardom. But to note, she also has nearly 8 million TikTok followers and in fact owes her come-up to the social-media circuit.
Also circa early-2021, Murph signed Columbia Records, the subsidiary of another major label, Sony Music. As such, Columbia is also the company behind the release of “While You’re At It”.
For the record, Jessie Murph is 17 years old as of the issue of track on 9 September 2022.
Credits for “While You’re At It”
“While You’re At It” was produced by a musician named Josh Kerr, who also co-wrote it with Dave Kuncio and Jessie.
