Confessions of a Lonely Girl - Victory Boyd

Album Review by Martti C. Peeples

I saw Victory Boyd perform with her siblings at Detroit’s Majestic Theatre in November 2018. The Broken Instrument album had just dropped. Her performance alone was captivating and left me wanting to know more about the artist I had just seen in my Facebook feed earlier that year.

I drove back to Indiana the next day, CD blasting in my car. 

I’ve been waiting for new music from Victory. She released a gospel album, Glory Hours, in 2023 and her arrangement of “Just Like in Heaven” was amazing. Now, in 2026, she has released her third studio album, Confessions of a Lonely Girl.

Victory is an incredible lyricist. The album is divided into four acts portraying the journey of a woman as she experiences falling in love, heartache, and reclaiming herself.

In Act 1—“The Confession”—comes the desire to be married. But the girl has no control over being loved, nor has she chosen who will love her. But she can control her own heart, professions, and confessions, as she outlines in her YouTube video explaining each act. 

From Act 1, my personal favorite is “Ghost”: “I remember we walked under the stars by the beach / I remember the feeling of your kiss to my cheek / I remember the promises I thought you would keep / I remember the love I thought we had, it was deep.” Then enters the refrain, “But days went by / After I tried to reach you / Not a single reply / You’re hiding behind / The door I thought I had the keys to.”

In Act 2—“Experience: Lessons learned from a love that once lived”—Track 8 is “I’ve Yet to Learn.” This song has an upbeat tempo with a strong guitar presence. The lyrics include “I have a confession to make / I’m not as strong as I portray / You know what they say / Fake it ‘til you make it / So I pretended, I didn’t trust you with the naked truth / Didn’t trust that you would choose me if you really knew me / I didn’t want you to see me in the need of help / I didn’t want you to leave me for someone else.”

In Act 3—“An Era of Rising: The defiant will to let love live again”—my favorite song is “Falling.” Let’s look at some of the lyrics, starting with the first verse, “All year long, I’ve been bracing for the fall / Autumn comes and blows the leaves from the trees that seemed so strong / Who can see the beauty in a scrawny naked tree? / Who can show love in a season when it stands barren and transparently?”

Now the chorus: “And they say if you take a chance with your heart you’ll either fall in love or fall apart / And I say I’m the girl that never fails to try even if it means I fall a thousand times.”

The music itself takes you back to the ‘60s. The beat makes me think of The Mamas & the Papas’ “California Dreamin’.” 

Act 4 showcases Victory’s lyrical magic, especially in “I Choose You”: “I know the mystery that is you, I know the history you been through, I know the lies, I know the truth, I know what happened in your youth, I know your strength, I know your weakness, I know the things you hold in secret, I know the fight you have with demons, I know your battle with addictions and none of this can separate my love from you.” These lyrics showcase a dedicated and devoted love that is rare to experience these days. 

Victory crosses many genres in one album, which I find artistically masterful.

This album is Victory’s rawest moment to me. If you’re a fan, you know she speaks of love and triumphs, of going through trials and tribulations but still keeping a deep, firm foundation of faith that covers a multitude, even for the lonely girl showing up in her bridal gown saying, “If you cannot offer this, see this for us. There cannot be no us.”

During our interview in March, I learned Victory was recording Confessions of a Lonely Girl and Glory Hour and was a member of the band Infinity Song with her siblings, all in 2019. Along the way, she picked up a Grammy for her collaboration on Kanye West’s gospel album, Jesus Is King, in 2020.

How did she get to Confessions of a Lonely Girl? You must look at the choices she had to make professionally. We talked about some of the personal choices she made to grow in her professional career. I asked her: “When you made the transition from singing with Infinity Song, how did that make you feel? How was that?”

Victory replied: “It was a very difficult decision, but I know that it was necessary in order for me to have the capacity to put my focus on my individual voice. Because when I did The Broken Instrument, right after that my focus was on Infinity Song, on Kanye, and on my next album, Confessions of a Lonely Girl.”

Victory would work on all these projects simultaneously. A couple of songs from Confessions of a Lonely Girl were produced in the same studio where Infinity Song’s music was being produced. 

The focus at that time was not on Victory. The priority was getting Infinity Song off the ground. Then, in 2019, she had the opportunity to be on Kanye’s team and that was a whole other thing. She compares it to boot camp, writing day and night for months, and that took all her attention.

In comes 2020 and she decides to focus on her album and Infinity Song. But then the Covid-19 pandemic hit. This led her to just wanting to do gospel music, while also prioritizing getting Infinity Song off the ground. This took a lot of focus. She hadn’t released any new music since The Broken Instrument in 2018, but some had been recorded.

Her question to herself was, when is there going to be another Victory album? “And the fact of the matter is,” she says, “there wasn’t enough focus and time for both operations. Infinity Song needed the focus and momentum.” But there was no singular focus on her solo music and albums.

Victory made the decision that if those songs died, “my specific voice goes unheard.” Her only album would be The Broken Instrument and it would be her fault for not choosing herself, which seems similar to Act 3 of Confessions of a Lonely Girl. 

Victory said it was very difficult to choose herself over her brothers and sisters, for a couple of reasons. She’s the oldest sister and she took care of them most of her life and helped raise them. “It felt very wrong to choose myself over them, over the collective,” she said. “[but] I knew it was the right thing.”

Had Victory not made this hard choice, all the people and all the souls connected to her specific voice were not going to be served, she felt. That would have been a greater loss than her absence from the group. In hindsight, she felt it cost her a lot, but she believes it was worth the cost.

The decisions and sacrifices artists make when they start off as a member in a group and then step into a solo career are never easy, and the road is possibly harder when you’re a family that has spent the majority of your lives singing and harmonizing together. I think when you listen to Confessions of a Lonely Girl, you can hear this, too, in some of the tracks. 

Like I said earlier, this is the rawness and honesty in life, in love, and in loss.

Since its March 27 debut, Confessions of a Lonely Girl has over 403,000 monthly listeners on Spotify and thousands of views on YouTube. You can also listen to and/or purchase the album through Amazon Music.

I personally give it a 10. 

Follow this link to hear songs from Confessions of a Lonely Girl.