Frankie Bird has released her buoyant debut single, “Twenty Nothing” today. Crowned with folk pop elements, “Twenty Nothing” represents a reincarnation of sorts for the California-based singer-songwriter formerly known as FRANKIE. Listen to the track now below.
The song is a triumphant reclamation for Frankie Bird. A coming-of-age journey. A return to her roots and the childhood inspiration drawn from strong and introspective female singer-songwriters of the 70s and 90s. From soaring success to the shattering loss of her stepfather, “Twenty Nothing” toasts to the highest of highs and excavates the lowest lows of her twenties, tracing the atlas of moments that defined the most mercurial decade of her existence to-date. “Twenty Nothing” marks her first piece of new music since 2021, and serves as an evolution of her former self and the project with which she was signed to a major label, performed around the country with Dua Lipa, Troye Sivan, Charlie Puth and more, and was co-signed by Taylor Swift from her handpicked playlist.
“Twenty Nothing is all about the high highs and low lows of my twenties and how I figured out how to push forward and reinvent myself during the pandemic; not just as a musician, but as a person. How I turned nothing into something,” says Frankie Bird. “During lockdown I started writing songs on my guitar just for me, processing everything I had gone through to help me heal, never thinking they would ever be recorded or released. Twenty Nothing was the song I was most nervous to share with people because it was everything I was too scared to say out loud but ironically is the first I’m sharing. The music video is filled with metaphors; different ages throughout the decade, people flooding in and out depending on my status, feeling easily replaceable, feeling frozen in time while everyone else moves on with their lives, breaking down and momentum stopping, to finally being saved by my guitar as it takes me to where I was always meant to be.”