A spirited folk-pop music of renewal, give up, and self-love, “Float” soars with ardour and function as Frankie Bird welcomes change and finds herself anew.
Stream: “Float” – Frankie Bird
Once I began dwelling within the current and selected acceptance over denial and anger, all the things modified for me. I used to be reintroduced to myself and my love for music.
We all stand to be taught a beneficial lesson from Frankie Bird’s latest single: Don’t combat the place the winds of change are blowing. Lean in and allow them to take you the place you’re meant to go. We don’t at all times know what the long run has in retailer for us, however we’ll get nowhere by resisting the tides and transferring in opposition to the grain – particularly when the decision is coming from inside. Life has a humorous approach of working itself out once you let it, and that’s what “Float” is all about: Learning to let go, so that you may be the place you belong. A spirited folk-pop music of renewal, give up, and acceptance, “Float” aches with ardour and function as Frankie Bird welcomes change and finds herself anew.
I’ve been attempting
To resist the water rising
I’ve been preventing
The waves barely surviving
Today I’ll float
And simply flow
I’ll build a ship
Out of all the things I do know
Without a doubt, that is the music of an artist training what she preaches. Atwood Magazine is proud to be premiering “Float,” a spectacular name to embrace your true self and be the particular person you wish to be on this world (out now). Following earlier singles “Twenty Nothing” and “When We Were Young,” “Float” is Frankie Bird’s third single of the 12 months, in addition to her third single beneath her model new identify: Fans might acknowledge her because the indie pop, all-caps artist FRANKIE, previously signed to RCA Records. After spending her twenties discovering average success within the pop music area, it was time for a change; as Bird (actual identify Frankie Miller) wrote in one social media post, “New identify. New music. New chapter.“
And so, the previous three months have been one thing of a dream come true for the artist previously often known as FRANKIE, as she sheds her old pores and skin and leans into one thing contemporary, one thing new, and one thing that’s been effervescent beneath the floor for a very long time now. As she sings so forcefully within the refrain of her re-debut single “Twenty Nothing,” “27 didn’t feel like Heaven, 28 was never all that great, 29 I’ll make things right, I’m gonna get back all that’s mine.” Becoming Frankie Bird actually is a reclamation – an act of defiance not simply to those that inspired her to remain within the pop lane, but in addition to a former model of herself, who believed she needed to bend over backwards to suit into another person’s mould.
“Float” gives one other intimate, insightful perspective to this ongoing journey of transformation, affirmation, and self-discovery. Singing alongside heat violins and jangling acoustic guitars, Bird pours forth a sweetly hovering melody and a narrative of renewal and acceptance. The act of floating – of simply going with the stream – is inherently a give up, however not in any detrimental context: “I’ll build a boat out of all the things I know,” Bird declares with buoyant grace and heartfelt intent.
I’ve been crying
Years of tears been piling
Getting tiring
But I nonetheless received some life in me
Today I’ll float
And simply flow
I’ll build a ship
Out of all of the issues I do know
“I wrote ‘Float’ about three days before my 30th birthday, making it the last song I wrote in my twenties,” Frankie Bird tells Atwood Magazine. “It poured out of me really quickly and felt like the final lesson I needed to learn before closing the decade. I spent so much of my late twenties feeling like I was getting nowhere because I was fighting the current of my life. I was trying to swim upstream to get to where I used to be, instead of allowing myself to think that there might be a different route that could be better for me.”
“Once I started living in the present and chose acceptance over denial and anger, everything changed for me. I was reintroduced to myself and my love for music and started making songs I never thought I’d be able to make with musicians I previously didn’t know existed. When you keep swimming against the current thinking it will get you to your destination quicker, you can start to drown. Instead if you decide to stop resisting and go where the water wants to take you, you’ll end up in places you never thought possible. What a ride, just float.”
The tide may attempt to combat me
To take me down capsize me
But I’ll journey it by
I’ll slip my approach proper by
What I preserve resisting
Just retains on persisting
So I’ll journey it by
And let it go for good
And float
I’ve been using
The water because it’s winding
It’s been guiding
Me to new horizons
“Float” is an inspirational anthem for all; irrespective of the place you’re in your life’s journey, we will all relate to feeling that want to adapt to others’ expectations, and we’ve all felt what it’s prefer to lose a bit of ourselves in that course of. Yet who is aware of what may occur once we cease resisting and permit our interior mild to shine by; maybe like Frankie Bird, we would expertise a full transformation, and are available out the opposite aspect extra assured, confident, and cozy in our pores and skin. Stream “Float” completely on Atwood Magazine, and keep tuned for extra from the artist within the months to return!
“Float” is out now on all platforms!
And now I do know (the tide may attempt to combat me to take me down capsize me)
To simply flow (however I’ll journey it by I’ll slip my approach proper by)
And belief my boat (what I preserve resisting simply retains on persisting)
Will deliver me again to shore (so I’ll journey it by and let it go for good)
And float
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