Functionally Female

I hope to have a daughter someday. That hope shaped every song on this album. I needed to understand the world she'll navigate—the contradictions wrapped in expectations, the systems designed for different bodies, the cultural traps disguised as empowerment, the genuine threats masked as advice.

This album is preparation. It's my attempt to map the territory so I can help her navigate it. It's documentation of what I've observed as a lyrical anthropologist watching modern femininity unfold across digital spaces—from manifestation girlies to OnlyFans creators, from #boymom culture to the redpill community's body count obsession, from the pink tax to the beauty bill we're all expected to pay.

I'm an economist by training. I see the contradiction everywhere: women drive 70-80% of consumer purchasing, yet our interests are dismissed as "vapid." We keep entire industries alive while being told our taste doesn't matter. Twilight was mocked. Fifty Shades was derided. Romance novels fund publishing, but they're still called "trashy." The proportionality of judgment always seems excessive when directed at female pursuits.

I hope there's something here for every kind of girl. The modest dresser and the crop-top wearer. The soft girl and the boss babe. The one navigating male attention and the one avoiding the male gaze entirely. Every girl trying to figure out how to be functionally female in a world that feels like contradictions all the way down. I want them all to feel seen.

The sound needed to match the subject matter—beautiful but with an edge, polished but with glitches, sweet but with bite. Dark electronic pop with dramatic shifts from intimate verses to explosive choruses. The production alternates between ethereal vocals that draw you in and powerful layered harmonies that assert themselves.

Some tracks lean into satire with bubblegum production and deliberately saccharine vocals (Girl Money, Beauty Bill, Seen It All Before). Others embrace darkness with pulsing basslines and haunting atmospheres (#BoyMom, Block Button). A few offer genuine warmth and hope (Just Us Girls, Soft Revolution). The tonal variety reflects the range of female experience—we contain multitudes, and so does this album.

The BPM range spans from contemplative 88 to energetic 180, but most tracks sit in that 100-130 sweet spot where you can think and feel simultaneously. This isn't background music. It's an examination, a documentation, a celebration, and a warning—all wrapped in beats you can move to.