Halifax-based songwriter/producer Breagh Isabel releases her debut single "Girlfriends" today, and courtesy of Warner Music Canada, you can now watch its accompanying music video here at Exclaim!
Chronicling a complex friendship-turned-romance between teen girls, "Girlfriends" arrives in part due to Isabel's "musical crush," songwriter Simon Wilcox, who helped Isabel peel back the layers of the song's sweet and sad queer coming-of-age story.
"I had no firm intention of delving into a solo artist project when I wrote 'Girlfriends,' but the song easily became the most honest thing I had ever written. I started to feel like I had something to say that might resonate," Isabel said in a press release. "The song is about little — and sometimes big — moments and thoughts I didn't know what to do with at the time, but now realize were just expressions of me figuring out who I am."
Added Isabel, "It's a bit of a sad song wrapped up in a happy-sounding package. The lyrics don't really tell a hopeful story. The resolution comes from the fact that I can own the experience and retell it from a place of happiness."
The song's accompanying Vancouver-shot video was directed by Tamara Black, and echoes the lyrics contained within Isabel's queer anthem. "I know you wanted me too / Yeah, even back then I knew / You wanted to be girlfriends / But we were just girlfriends," Isabel sings as the video's stars Cassidy Foley and Carolyn Yu display a complicated intimacy onscreen.
Watch the video and listen to "Girlfriends" below.
Chronicling a complex friendship-turned-romance between teen girls, "Girlfriends" arrives in part due to Isabel's "musical crush," songwriter Simon Wilcox, who helped Isabel peel back the layers of the song's sweet and sad queer coming-of-age story.
"I had no firm intention of delving into a solo artist project when I wrote 'Girlfriends,' but the song easily became the most honest thing I had ever written. I started to feel like I had something to say that might resonate," Isabel said in a press release. "The song is about little — and sometimes big — moments and thoughts I didn't know what to do with at the time, but now realize were just expressions of me figuring out who I am."
Added Isabel, "It's a bit of a sad song wrapped up in a happy-sounding package. The lyrics don't really tell a hopeful story. The resolution comes from the fact that I can own the experience and retell it from a place of happiness."
The song's accompanying Vancouver-shot video was directed by Tamara Black, and echoes the lyrics contained within Isabel's queer anthem. "I know you wanted me too / Yeah, even back then I knew / You wanted to be girlfriends / But we were just girlfriends," Isabel sings as the video's stars Cassidy Foley and Carolyn Yu display a complicated intimacy onscreen.
Watch the video and listen to "Girlfriends" below.