“Rock to the Top” is a song that gets stuck in your head whether you want it to or not. Those opening guitar riffs hit and you just know this is going somewhere good.

What Paul Le Rocq does right from the start is obvious: he writes hooks that work. The melody feels instantly familiar in that way where you swear you’ve heard it before, even though you haven’t. By the time the chorus lands, you’re already singing along. That doesn’t happen by accident. That’s someone who knows exactly what he’s doing.

The song opens in a really honest place. It’s just a guy alone, writing music with nobody listening, asking himself if any of this matters. It’s vulnerable in a way you don’t always hear in rock songs. But then the chorus flips that doubt into pure momentum. “It is gonna be hell over heels all over and all over again” is the kind of line that makes you want to hear it live, loud, in a room full of people feeling the same thing.

Le Rocq handles everything on this track: guitar, keyboards, vocals, the whole thing. You can hear influences from the bands that defined the 80s and 90s in his sound—Bon Jovi, Motley Crue, Scorpions, that whole era—but he’s not trying to copy them. He grew up on those records, let them sink in, and then wrote something that’s completely his own. “Rock to the Top” doesn’t sound like throwback nostalgia. It sounds like right now.

You can listen here.