I’ve spent exactly one Christmas completely alone. Not lonely—alone. There’s a difference and I didn’t understand it until I was sitting in my apartment with takeout and zero obligations watching snow fall outside my window. No forced cheerfulness, no explaining my life choices to relatives, just me and the quiet. And honestly? It felt like the first honest breath I’d taken all year.
RABO gets this. The Oslo artist’s new single ‘Might Never Meet Again’ isn’t your typical holiday track. There’s no sleigh bells or forced nostalgia. Instead she’s given us something way more valuable: permission to be okay with being alone. And damn, we needed that.
The song opens with a confession that hits different: “Thoughts I’ve had lately / I took a wrong turn it made me feel right / it was so easy / packed my things and my worries and left them behind.” She’s talking about choosing solitude, about those decisions everyone calls crazy until you’re on the other side realizing they saved you. There’s this beautiful honesty in admitting that the “wrong” choice is exactly what sets you free sometimes.
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RABO’s path to this moment is wild—she literally went from surf instructor in Brazil and Greece to writing for K-pop stars like Aespa, then decided she needed to tell her own stories. After crushing it at festivals all year and landing a Netflix songwriting camp, she’s closing 2025 with something deeply personal. She performed this live during NRK’s annual TV charity broadcast and apparently moved an entire country. Now it’s getting the full treatment, including a feature in Netflix’s ‘Home for Christmas’ for one of the show’s most emotional scenes.
“It’s a song about stillness, and how being alone isn’t always an absence – it can be a place where new encounters have room to find you,” RABO explains. But she doesn’t stop there. “Sometimes it also reminds you of how important belonging is and of appreciating the people you already have around you.”
The production from Magnus Skylstad (who’s worked with Aurora, Kygo, and HAYLA) keeps everything organic and timeless. Her vocals float over gentle instrumentation that never tries to compete—it just holds space for her to work through these feelings in real time.
When she sings “Some call me crazy / just because I spent my christmas alone / I tell them maybe / And If I could, I’d have the world on my own,” there’s this quiet defiance that feels so goddamn relatable. She’s not defensive about it, not apologizing—just stating facts. The power move in “I pick my cards call the shots and to me that’s enough” lands because it’s true. Sometimes enough is actually enough.
The chorus captures that bittersweet freedom of temporary connections. “All of these options a world without end / live for the moments that doesn’t make sense / I’ll be the stranger who opens your heart / I might never see you again.” She’s talking about those temporary connections that might not go anywhere, and being okay with that uncertainty.
But then the bridge shifts—“sometimes I hate me / some of my choices have caught me off guard / Just like on new years / rushing home watched the fireworks flying between stars.” Independence is complicated. Those solo holidays can make you question everything, make you wonder if you chose wrong. And that moment when she admits “put on a dress booked a ticket / then I called my mom / told her that I’m coming home”? That’s the real shit. Sometimes being strong enough to be alone means being strong enough to come back.
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The final chorus evolution is what gets me: “among all these options I hold my own hand / not always easy sometimes I pretend.” She admits what we all know: holding your own hand takes practice. Some days you’re faking the whole independent thing.
What makes RABO stand out in the Nordic pop scene is how she refuses to package feelings into neat boxes. She’s not telling you loneliness is empowering or that isolation builds character. She’s just describing that weird gray area where you’ve learned to exist solo but sometimes you still open your phone hoping for a notification.
If you’ve ever chosen yourself and then questioned that choice at 2am—yeah, ‘Might Never Meet Again’ is gonna hit. If you’ve spent a holiday alone feeling both free and fucking scared at the same time, RABO just made your soundtrack. You can be okay solo and still miss having someone else around. Both things exist.
RABO’s made the rare Christmas song that doesn’t try to fix you or force feelings. It just sits there with you in the mess of figuring out your own life. And honestly? That’s the whole point.
