New Music & Video Release - Vera Ellen returns with new single, 'When It's Over', feat. Hemi Hemingway - 12th March 2026
Photo Credit - Nicola Sandford
Artist Name - Vera Ellen
Release Name - When It's Over
Release Date - 12th March 2026
Genre - Indie, Indie Rock, Alternative
Label - Flying Nun Records
Today, Aotearoa Music Award and Taite Prize winning artist Vera Ellen shares ‘When It’s Over’ - the second single from her upcoming album Heaven Knows What Time. Featuring a brooding vocal performance from fellow Wellington musician Hemi Hemingway, Vera Ellen knew the song needed a counterweight the moment the demo was finished — and that voice had to be Mr. Hemi Hemingway. The two had previously torn through a karaoke classic by Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood, and the chemistry was undeniable. In many ways, this collaboration felt inevitable.
Written during a residency in Greytown while she was still in a relationship, ‘When It’s Over’ captures the uneasy space between love and collapse. It’s a song born from intuition — the quiet, creeping awareness that the wheels are coming off. With unflinching honesty, Vera Ellen examines the ugliness on both sides: the ways two people fumble, disappoint, and somehow draw out the very worst in one another. Yet beneath the tension lies something tender.
Haunting, intimate, and charged with the bittersweet electricity of hindsight, When It’s Over is a duet that feels both prophetic and painfully real. The track is brought to life in a music video directed by Daniel Fletcher, Starring Brent Gilbert, Hemi Hemingway and Vera Ellen.