XTINE Shares the Gratitude That ‘All The Ways We Loved’ Built
The emerging alt-pop artist XTINE recently shared an Instagram carousel that stopped mid-scroll for a lot of people. The caption read: “Funny how life gives you the things you thought were never meant for you — thankful for all of it 🤍” — and the slides that followed delivered that sentiment one line at a time. “I never thought I’d be loved this much until it happened.” “I never expected to be appreciated like this until I felt it.” “I never imagined this kind of support.” The final slide closed it simply: “Thank you to life for letting me feel all of this.”
That post was a person processing something real, that space between disbelief and acceptance when life hands you things you spent years convinced were never coming.
For anyone who has followed XTINE’s trajectory, the weight behind those words is not abstract. She discovered GarageBand at 11 after transferring schools amid bullying and learning challenges. By 12, she was writing and producing her own songs. That same year, she reached out to Sia on Twitter — and Sia responded, encouraging her to keep creating and even dancing to one of XTINE’s early recordings in a video. The exchange gave her footing when she had very little. At 14, depression set in. Music did not leave. At 15, she released “Beautiful Has No Cost” on YouTube — a song that found people who needed it, and in finding them, found her too.
That exchange — her music healing listeners, their response healing her — is the current that runs through everything she makes, and nowhere more so than on All The Ways We Loved, released April 10, 2026. The album draws from the same emotional territory as the carousel: love arriving unexpectedly, support feeling foreign before it feels familiar, gratitude that has been through something to get there. Inspired by artists like Sia, Sleeping at Last, and Björk, XTINE’s alt-pop sound documents these emotions.