Shontelle is coping with a heartbreak after a tough split with her lover in a music video for her latest single "Say Hello to Goodbye." The pop ballad love song is the third single from her sophomore studio album "No Gravity," which she once said, "'No Gravity' became almost like this mantra that I adopted to my life and to the whole project... I basically thought 'I really can't let anything stand in my way; I can't let anything stop me from rising to the top; I can't have anything holding me down or holding me back'."Someone, somewhere must really take to Shontelle. Because, after her last single "Perfect Nightmare" failed to set the charts alight, she has been handed another lifeline in the from of new single "Say Hello to Goodbye." sings about moving on after breaking up with her ex, Shontelle wrote the song in Sweden with producer Martin Hansen, and based on her real-life experience. "It's really a story of acknowledging [that] this ain't working, it's the end, and it's time to say hello to goodbye," she explained. "I know a lot of people can relate to similar circumstances."
It took the singer two days to record it as the first day she couldn't stop crying due to the emotions of the song. She explained why to Sound-Savvy: "I was just literally going through a tough time in a relationship I was in. I was doing a lot of thinking about it. I was just like... I really feel like I have to say hello to goodbye. This might really be the end. I think the end is really nearer than I thought. I started getting really sad thinking about it. I said, let me just pour my heart out on paper. And then when it came time to sing it, to actually record it, it was harder than I expected it was going to be. So I don't know what I'm going to do about performing it."
Shontelle's relationship goes off the tracks in the melancholy video, which featuring the Barbadian beauty dealing with the emotional rollercoaster of a tough break up. In the Armen Djerrahian-directed video, the Bajan R&B singer walks through a lonely train station at New Jersey's Hoboken station, but only one passenger decides to stay for the ride. She's deciding whether or not to reunite with an ex after meeting him on the train. She bumps into her ex while boarding a train while she's nursing her shattered heart and reminiscing about the good times and bad with her ex-boyfriend.
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