Seattle-based singer-songwriter Mary Lambert (who scored big with last year’s “Same Love” collaboration with Macklemore and Ryan Lewis) lets loose with a litany of her faults in her bouncy new song “Secrets.” In it, she sings about all the things that she’s been taught to keep hidden, but which she’s decided she’s no longer going to do. Yes! Good for you, Mary! Roar, girl.
“‘Secrets’ might be the first fun song I’ve ever written,” Lambert tells Hitflix. “The song is about accepting yourself, flaws and all. I felt like there were a lot of songs coming out about self-empowerment and challenging beauty standards and I wanted to write a song along those same lines, but in my voice. There is so much shame and guilt in our society and I think it has deprived a lot of people from living fully. We are all facing battles, We’ve all had someone who has hurt us. So let’s talk bout it.”
Watch the lyric video below:
From Hitflix:
In Mary Lambert’s “Secrets,” she reveals perceived flaw after flaw that she tries to keep hidden over an irrepressibly jaunty tune— whether it’s that she’s bi-polar, comes from a dysfunctional family, cries all day, is gay, is overweight…she has a catalog full. But her message it that we all have our secrets and keeping them locked away in a place of shame is far more damaging than letting them out.
The song is about reclaiming your power by letting go of the messages that society pounds into us over and over that we are not good enough as we are and that there is always some unattainable goal —losing 5 more pounds, having longer eyelashes, going a shade blonde — that would make us acceptable to the world.
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