There is no one kind of North Carolina music, and there is no one Indigo De Souza. “I don’t know what about my music is specifically North Carolina,” she says. The raging party captured in the video was inspired by jams De Souza has in a converted old church she’s moved into outside Asheville.ĭe Souza, an almost genre-free rock star, belongs with none of them and with all of them. The video depicts a queer karoake dance party, the import of which shouldn’t be overlooked in a state still closely associated with HB2, the anti-gay, anti-trans “bathroom bill” that made North Carolina the face of homophobia in 2016. “Thanks for making me smile cry at 7am on a Wednesday,” writes another. “YOU INSPIRE ME TO WAKE UP EVERYDAY,” writes one commenter on the music video for “Hold U,” the second single off the new album. Naturally, the emotionally visceral music makes for emotionally visceral responses. Indigo De Souza (Image via Indigo De Souza on Facebook) “I felt an incredible catharsis hearing their voices stacked with mine,” she wrote about it on Instagram. It’s harrowing and uncomfortable, just like the last year. The centerpiece of her new album, a song called “Real Pain,” climaxes with a crowd-sourced collage of screaming.ĭe Souza asked her fans to turn in audio snippets of them letting out their anxiety amid the pandemic. De Souza, an artist who revels in catharsis, community, and empathy on record, has the kind of intimate, relatable songs that can turn fans into huge fans.
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