Stand Atlantic have announced their new album, Was Here, and the follow-up to 2022’s f.e.a.r. arrives Aug. 23 via Hopeless Records.
“GIRL$” serves as the album’s first preview, which enlists Lynn Gunn of PVRIS and Amalia Ramírez of Bruses. It also comes with an absurdly fun video that features the trio as old ladies who play on hip-hop’s worst tropes as they flash fat stacks and hit the strip club.
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“I feel like the message of the song speaks for itself,” vocalist Bonnie Fraser shares of the collab. “I wanted to show my appreciation for women and personally, my experience growing up knowing I was attracted to women but still feeling like I had to fit the mold of the male gaze, just based on the way I was influenced by a male-dominated society. I hope other queer women and women in general resonate with this track, but also anyone in between. I wrote it for anyone who’s ever felt squashed by the strange and subtle pressures society can place on young people based off old-as-shit paradigms.
“That being said, having Lynn (PVRIS) and Amalia (Bruses) on this track made it so much more meaningful to me personally. Both female, queer, and talented artists I respect so much. Making this music video was a friggen gas. Me and Lynn both had the same idea independently of each other when she agreed to be on the track — ‘Let’s be old ladies.’ I’m sure people expected us all to be selling sex and queer-baiting the shit out of this — so we did what any rap video would do, but as old ladies.”
See the video for “GIRL$,” as well as the album artwork and tracklist, below.
Was Here tracklist
“WAKE UP-SIT DOWN-SHUT UP”
“FRENEMIES”
“GIRL$” (feat. PVRIS and Bruses
“FREAKIN’ OUT”
“NOSE BLEED” (feat. Sueco)
“LOVE U ANYWAY”
“KISSIN’ KILLER COBRAS”
“WARZ0NE”
“CRIMINAL” (feat. Polaris)
“17”
“17 // REPRIZE [ONE TAKE]”
“G.A.G.”
“ROCKSTAR”
“SEX ON THE BEACH”
“KILL[H]ER”
