Friedberg’s “Hardcore Workout Queen” is a seductive and cinematic indie pop fever dream – and the perfect soundtrack to lazing on the couch or sweating out your demons.
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“Hardcore Workout Queen” – Friedberg
Maybe I’m not an athlete like you, but in my heart I’m a workout queen too…
I have found my new anthem in Friedberg’s “Hardcore Workout Queen,” a seductive and cinematic indie pop fever dream – and the perfect soundtrack to lazing on the couch or sweating out your demons.
The London-based band’s fourth song of the year is as dreamy as it is driving, and as invigorating as it is utterly intoxicating – a moving display of their finessed instrumental skills, their evocative songwriting abilities, and lead singer Anna Wappel’s dynamic voice.
So whether you’re still in bed or already at the gym (or anywhere in-between), you can fall head-over-heels for this spellbinding, immersive enchantment.
Anywhere I can let my hair down
Grow it out, wear it like a new ball gown
Come on up it’s the greatest bar in town
Anywhere I can put my feet up
Lay down, you can be my sofa
Stay still til the valium wears out
Let me live like the teenage boys do
Black out blind
ain’t no light gon’ shine through
In my dreams
I don’t mind if I win or lose
Hey you eating all the granola
Come and join me in my food coma
I’ve got cake, you can have quinoa
“It’s about being the Champion of the slobs, whilst cheering for the Hardcore Workout Queens, who run past your bedroom window early morning, when you’re just tucking into your second breakfast,” Friedberg’s unapologetic frontwoman tells Atwood Magazine.
“It’s kind of ‘you do you and I do me, and maybe one day we’ll switch.’ It’s the perfect song to listen to, whether you’ve got a protein shake or a beer in your hand, whether you’ve got a popcorn machine or a rowing machine in your home, whether you’re a wake and baker or a record breaker.”
The chorus is a moment of reckoning, redemption, and release as Friedberg rise to a cathartic climax:
Hardcore workout queen
Kill it on the row machine
Hard core workout queen
Hey!
Hardcore workout queen
Kill it on the row machine
Hardcore workout queen
Following recent singles “My Best Friend,” “The Greatest,” and “Hello” – which Atwood Magazine praised this past spring as a “full-body escapist anthem… the kind of song that gets the blood pumping; a passionate, propulsive fervor that turns every walk into a red-hot strut” – “Hardcore Workout Queen” is much more than an expression of connection or experience; it’s a statement of intent.
At the bar I’ll be in the dark corner
Never been such an easy performer
But I shine in a good hot sauna
While you’re out building up
all your glutes babe
I’ll be home playing all my flutes hey
Wrote this song for your cool down today
Gotta love you chat GPT
Can you live out this weekend for me
Hit the Saatchi, paintings bore me
The band’s forthcoming debut album, also titled Hardcore Workout Queen, is due out November 8th, and promises many more moments of unfiltered emotion and shiver-inducing sound that will get the heart racing, the blood pumping, our heads banging, and our booties shaking.
Hardcore workout queen
Kill it on the row machine
Hardcore workout queen
Hey!
Go girl speed it up
Make it to the country club
Go girl speed it up
Hey!
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