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Today we are pleased to join forces with FRED for the release of “Trust Yourself”. Written by Gabriel Molinaro, the artist behind FRED, the song documents their experience growing up in a fundamentalist church and eventually coming out as trans non-binary. “I actually don’t really like the phrase ‘coming out’,” Molinaro writes. “I appreciate how Karamo Brown re-frames this experience as inviting people into our lives, rather than coming to them and hoping for acceptance. Growing up in the church, I was taught that God refuses to accept queer people and so we shouldn’t either. I’m learning to stop waiting on others for acceptance and instead am offering that love and acceptance to myself. This song is about that process of learning to recognize and trust our own voices as queer people.”
Produced by William Cremin (Cumulus, The Environment, Gnossienne), “Trust Yourself” feels like something you may hear in a club, transforming in the last minute into a full on dance party. “I needed it to be a celebration of trans identity,” writes Molinaro, “because there is enough grieving that we do every day. I needed this song to be an exorcism of sorts, as well as a baptism, a full on sacred dunking in glitter water.”
About the song, Gabriel comments “This is my queer liberation flashy dance till you’re sweaty track, and it is by far the most fun that I have when performing a set.”
