Eric Hirshberg Releases “Less Important Things,” a Reflective Song on Parenthood and Letting Go
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Eric Hirshberg returns with “Less Important Things,” a deeply personal single reflecting on the emotional shift of becoming an empty nester. The song captures the quiet aftermath of years filled with family, chaos, and responsibility, blending tender lyrics with understated, cinematic instrumentation. Alongside an intimate in-studio performance video, the release continues to explore themes of love, parenthood, and the moments that define life’s passage.
A press release from Eric Hirshberg’s management revealed that “Less Important Things” is part of his forthcoming album, More Is Not The Answer, due later this year.
Written after becoming an empty nester, “Less Important Things” captures the strange emotional whiplash that follows – the sudden silence after years spent building a life around noise, movement, responsibility, and love. Tender, reflective, and deeply human, “Less Important Things” serves as both a meditation on parenthood and a quiet reckoning with what remains after a major chapter of life changes shape.
Listen to “Less Important Things”:
“It is a love song to the journey of parenthood and the bittersweetness of letting go,” Hirshberg says. “You spend years building your life around the noise, chaos, and rhythm of raising kids, and then one day the house gets quiet in a way you were never really prepared for.”
Built around understated instrumentation and a gradually widening emotional scope, the song traces the disorientation that follows a child leaving home for the first time. Lines like “You build this place to withstand a riot / It’s not supposed to be this quiet” capture the uneasy stillness that settles in after years of constant activity, while the chorus arrives with the realization at the heart of the song: “Nothing’s ever gonna matter as much.”
Rather than framing that realization as tragedy, “Less Important Things” sits inside the complicated middle ground of parenthood itself – gratitude, pride, relief, love, and loss all existing at once.
The release arrives alongside a new in-studio performance video that invites viewers directly into the room with Hirshberg and his band. Filmed in an intimate studio setting, the video strips away distraction and focuses entirely on the performance itself, capturing the chemistry and restraint that have become defining elements of Hirshberg’s recent work.
Watch the in-studio performance video:
Musically, “Less Important Things” continues the balance Hirshberg has been developing across this current run of releases: emotionally direct songwriting delivered with cinematic warmth and subtle scale. Recent singles have explored technology, distraction, modern anxiety, and the search for human connection in increasingly fragmented times. “Less Important Things” carries that search for human connection into one of the most universal and deeply human experiences of all: parenthood, love, and the complicated act of letting go.
Across the upcoming album project, Hirshberg examines the tension between noise and clarity, excess and meaning, connection and isolation – always landing on a meditation on what matters and what it means to be human.
That perspective has already begun to resonate beyond the music itself. “For Real,” Hirshberg’s collaboration with Aloe Blacc, marked his national television performance debut on Live with Kelly and Mark, where Kelly Ripa praised the song on-air as “an anthem.” The song later inspired a feature in American Songwriter, which highlighted both the origins of Hirshberg and Blacc’s creative partnership and the broader themes running through Hirshberg’s current body of work.
Before turning publicly toward music, Hirshberg spent years at the center of modern entertainment and media as CEO of Activision and earlier as CEO and Chief Creative Officer of Deutsch LA. That experience continues to inform his songwriting, which often explores what people pay attention to, what gets lost in modern life, and what still cuts through despite all the noise.
If “We’re All In This Alone” examined the invisible systems shaping modern behavior, and “More Is Not The Answer” reflected on what matters when everything else falls away, “Less Important Things” may be the clearest emotional statement yet from the forthcoming album: a reminder that the moments that define a life are often the ones that are most temporary.
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