it feels a little surreal, trivial—sometimes even guilty to be promoting an album as we descend into what feels like scorched earth right wing fascism. one of the scary feelings i’ve been having as i’m inundated with upsetting news is that i / we are are more and more alone in dreaming of a more just, compassionate world. someone reminded me that one of the ways of counteracting a culture shift is through art, and while my gut reaction is to think that art doesn’t matter and we just need to go full luigi mangione (tho actually what luigi did is art in its purest form..), i do think there are truths to this…art has saved me many times in my life and taught me and reminded me of what i believe in, and so i do think making music in times like this has a purpose. also it’s not all binary— we can both release a record and luigi if we wanted to! i hope to get to that point soon out of despair and into more action (while i’m on that mental thread, go support zohran mamdani for mayoral candidacy).
i have a new single out from my upcoming record, the song is called dancing on the soft knife. dancing on the soft knife is set on the verge of self-discovery. That moment during transition when you accept the truth of who you are, and plunge into your new life. That self-realization during the rave, while being obliterated by sound and the throngs of people, when you are finally born anew.
And now, under this new regime, I feel that the song takes on a new meaning: in an era where trans people are attacked every day, we’re forced to constantly dance on a knife’s edge. And yet musically, the song’s euphoric quality encourages us, and undercuts this dark sentiment, hinting that we will survive, we will be okay.
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