Karen Dió has dropped a new single, Free Yourself, and announced her second EP Fugaz.
“Funnily enough, Free Yourself is a song that I dreamed of. Most of the time I unfortunately forget the songs by the time I’m awake, but I’m glad I remembered this one,” Karen says.
“Later the same day, I decided to work on it and the melody of the chorus immediately came. When I showed the embryo of it to Matt (Bigland of Dinosaur Pile-Up, Karen’s husband and writing partner), he immediately was like, ‘That’s a hit!’ so we started to write the rest.
“During the whole process of writing Free Yourself we would remind ourselves to be completely free with our creativity and, to be honest, to try being ridiculous sometimes. One of my favourite parts of the song came from an improvisation where I said ‘Jeans are dangerous,’ and Matt thought it was great, but he thought I said ‘Genes are dangerous.’ We loved both quotes, but we decided to go with ‘Genes are dangerous’ because it felt more provocative.”
Check it out below: