08/19/2026
ARTIST INTERVIEW/SPOTLIGHT: BREAKEVEN7VYN — “LETTER 2 (Nonchalant)”
THE LETTER I NEVER SENT
Artist: BreakEVEN7vyn
Real Name: Collin Clarke
Single: “LETTER 2 (Nonchalant)”
Presented by: RØGUE & COMPANY RECORDS
**RØGUEVERSE ’26 × RECØVERYWËAR × ST8WARD LØST IDØLZ ENT
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INTRO — FROM BREAKEVEN7VYN
I think everybody has a letter they never sent.
Maybe it was to somebody you loved.
Maybe somebody you hated.
Maybe somebody you lost.
Maybe it was a letter to yourself.
For me, “LETTER 2 (Nonchalant)” lives somewhere in that space.
It’s about having everything you want to say sitting right there in your chest—and still choosing not to say it.
Not because you don't feel it.
Because you feel too much.
There comes a point where explaining yourself starts feeling like begging to be understood. And I had to learn that sometimes silence isn't weakness.
Sometimes silence is the last piece of control you have.
That's where Nonchalant comes from.
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THE INTERVIEW
Q: What is “LETTER 2 (Nonchalant)” actually about?
BreakEVEN7vyn:
Honestly?
It’s about a relationship that never really had a clean ending.
I met Kathryn in rehab in the summer of 2024. We were both trying to get clean, trying to figure out how to exist without the chaos that brought us there in the first place.
We went from the street, to a crackhouse, to staying with a cousin, to finally having our own room. It felt like survival turned into something that looked like love.
But it was never simple.
There was cheating on both sides. There was love that showed up and disappeared depending on the day. There were moments where she’d look at me like I was everything, and other moments where I felt like I didn’t exist at all.
She got pregnant by someone else, and that changed everything between us—but it didn’t erase the attachment. It just made it more complicated.
There were times she’d use her daughter as leverage in arguments, and times I’d relapse twice chasing the idea of recovery while still chasing her at the same time.
So when I say “Nonchalant,” I don’t mean I didn’t care.
I mean I cared so much it started breaking me.
And eventually, I had to learn how to stop reacting to every version of her I loved and lost.
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Q: Why call it “LETTER 2”?
BreakEVEN7vyn:
Because this isn’t the first letter I’ve written in my life that I never sent.
And it probably won’t be the last.
But this one feels like a continuation of something unfinished between me and her, and also between me and myself.
Music became the only place I could say what I couldn’t survive saying out loud.
So “LETTER 2” is just another page in a conversation that never got closure in real life.
The cover still says:
“I wrote this letter, but I ain't sent it…”
That’s exactly what this is.
Some things you don’t send because sending them would reopen everything you’re trying to heal from.
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Q: Who is the letter to?
BreakEVEN7vyn:
It’s to Kathryn.
But it’s also not just to her.
It’s to the version of me that thought love could fix addiction.
It’s to the version of her that was still fighting her own battles while trying to love me.
It’s to the space we lived in where everything was unstable but still felt like home for a moment.
And honestly, it’s to anyone who’s ever been stuck loving somebody while both of you are falling apart at the same time.
So yeah—it’s personal.
But it’s not exclusive.
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Q: The cover feels romantic, dark, almost gothic. Why?
BreakEVEN7vyn:
Because that’s what it felt like.
Love in that situation wasn’t clean. It wasn’t safe. It wasn’t stable.
It was intense, destructive, and real in a way that’s hard to explain to people who’ve never been in survival mode with somebody they love.
I wanted the artwork to feel like something you shouldn’t be looking at—but can’t look away from.
Because that’s what the relationship was.
Something beautiful and broken at the same time.
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Q: There's a line on the artwork that says, “I'm good, I just learned how to not show it.” Is that the heart of the record?
BreakEVEN7vyn:
Yeah.
That line is survival.
Because there were so many moments where I wasn’t good at all.
Relapsing twice while trying to stay clean. Loving someone who was also hurting me. Trying to be stable in an unstable environment.
At some point, you stop explaining your pain to people who can’t fix it.
So you just start saying:
“I’m good.”
Even when you’re not.
Not because you’re lying.
But because you’re tired.
That’s what “Nonchalant” really is.
It’s not numbness.
It’s learning how to stop bleeding on people who don’t know how to help you heal.
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BREAKEVEN7VYN ON THE SONG'S PLACE IN THE RØGUEVERSE
Everything I create exists somewhere inside a bigger world.
That's the RØGUEVERSE.
But this one hits different because it’s not just fictional emotion—it’s real memory.
Real people. Real mistakes. Real recovery attempts that didn’t always stick the first time.
“LETTER 2 (Nonchalant)” is one of the most honest pieces in that world because it’s not trying to romanticize anything.
It’s just me looking back at a time where love and addiction were happening in the same breath.
And realizing I survived it.
That’s a different kind of power.
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WHY “NONCHALANT” MATTERS TO ME
I used to think love meant holding on no matter what.
But I learned that sometimes holding on is what destroys you.
There were moments where I had to choose between reacting to everything I felt—or protecting what was left of me.
And I didn’t always choose right the first time.
That’s where relapse came in.
That’s where loss came in.
That’s where learning came in.
So “Nonchalant” isn’t about not caring.
It’s about finally understanding that caring without boundaries can kill you.
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THE RECØVERYWËAR CONNECTION
RECØVERYWËAR means more to me now than it ever did.
Because recovery isn’t just leaving substances behind.
It’s leaving patterns behind.
It’s learning how to love without self-destruction attached to it.
It’s learning how to walk away even when your heart is still in the room.
RECLAIM. RECOVER. RENEW.
That’s not just branding.
That’s what I’m still trying to live.
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BREAKEVEN7VYN'S MESSAGE TO THE LISTENER
If you’re listening to this and somebody came to mind immediately—
I understand that feeling.
Maybe you’re still in it.
Maybe you got out of it.
Maybe you’re still relapsing in different ways trying to cope with it.
Whatever it is—
don’t lie to yourself about what it cost you.
You don’t have to send every letter.
But you do have to be honest about why you wrote it.
That’s the difference.
“LETTER 2 (Nonchalant)” isn’t about not caring.
It’s about finally admitting what caring did to you—and deciding not to let it destroy you anymore.
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RAPID FIRE — BREAKEVEN7VYN
Love or closure?
Closure.
Say it or write it?
Write it.
Forgive or forget?
Forgive. Forgetting isn’t always real.
Heart or ego?
Heart—but with survival instincts.
Explain yourself or let them assume?
Let them assume.
One word for “LETTER 2”?
Survival.
One word for BreakEVEN7vyn right now?
Rebuilding.
What do you hope somebody takes from this song?
That love and pain can exist in the same place—and you can still choose to save yourself.
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FINAL WORD — BREAKEVEN7VYN
I don’t know who this song is going to reach.
But I know somebody out there is still stuck in a version of a story they can’t fully leave yet.
Maybe this is just a reminder that you’re not crazy for still feeling it.
But you also don’t have to stay there forever.
LETTER 2 (Nonchalant)
I wrote it.
I lived it.
I survived it.
I just ain’t send it.
— BreakEVEN7vyn
Collin Clarke
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