Rising artist, Frankie Bird has released her new song, “Float” alongside an accompanying music video today. Representing a sonic evolution for Frankie, the passionate track celebrates change. Watch the video now below.
“I wrote ‘Float’ about three days before my 30th birthday, making it the last song I wrote in my twenties,” recalls Frankie. “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.”
She furthers, “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.”
In July, Frankie released her song “When We Were Young.” Simultaneously breezy, wistful and rooted in her firsthand experience, “When We Were Young” explores the consequences that come in the wake of mixing music, love and business. It’s a song that yearns for simpler times, arriving alongside a video that invokes nostalgia for the summer days that live in your mind long after you’ve experienced them.
“Float” and “When We Were Young” follow the release of her comeback single “Twenty Nothing,” which garnered attention from the likes of Rolling Stone and Billboard. Frankie’s latest releases represent a coming-of-age journey as she returns to her roots and the inspiration drawn from strong and introspective female singer/songwriters of the 70’s and 90’s.
Marking her first musical releases since 2021, the new work serves as an evolution of her former self where she was signed to a major label, toured the country with Dua Lipa, Troye Sivan and Charlie Puth and was co-signed by Taylor Swift from her handpicked playlist.
Stay tuned for more music from Frankie to come soon.