Alessia Cara Drops Acoustic Version: Listen Here

After sharing “Growing Pains” back in June, Alessia Cara has now given her single the acoustic treatment. Cara also delivered a video for the song in June.

Cara previously said that “Growing Pains” is “about going through the motions everyday and wanting to be happy and find happy moments, but ultimately going to bed at night and just feeling really down for no particular reason or not being able to pinpoint the reason…For me, the only way I could pinpoint those reasons is by calling them ‘Growing Pains.’”

Earlier in the day, she took to Instagram to share the meaning behind the baggy gray slacks and blazer, white button-down and colored tie featured on the single’s cover art and worn by the songstress and her band during every performance.

“The oversized suit visually represents the idea of growing up too fast, or trying to fit ourselves into roles that can feel too large to handle,” she wrote. “We aren’t always prepared for life when it runs towards us full speed. sometimes it feels like we’re drowning in it a little, sometimes it’s mundane and stagnant. that’s what the suit is.”