“Balance” turns a small bathroom scale into the loudest critic in the room. In this soulful pop anthem, Belgian singer Mentissa has a sharp conversation with that unforgiving piece of metal, demanding it to “spill” the extra kilos and repeat the harsh judgments she already knows by heart. The verses lay bare the cycle of crash-dieting, self-doubt and feeling watched from below by the scale’s cold stare. Every digit it shows is “a number with two tears,” a reminder that no matter how much she starves herself, the verdict never seems good enough.
Then comes the musical plot twist: liberation. With the hook “Balance-moi, balance tout,” she flips the meaning of balance from “scale” to “throw it all away.” Mentissa decides to drop the heaviest weight of all—the shame on her heart that kept her from feeling beautiful and authentic. As the song rises, she celebrates aging, shedding expectations like old feathers, and trusting that bad moments will pass. “Balance” is both a cathartic purge and a self-love manifesto, urging listeners to silence external judgments, step off the scale and dance in the freedom of being unapologetically themselves.