Florence + The Machine cultivates beauty in the midst of vulnerability and pain, finding healing through a patient timeline in “Everybody Scream,” the cathartic and spellbinding title track off her upcoming sixth studio album.
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Underneath the willow moss, wildflowers blossom in the dewy morning air.
Florence + The Machine rises from the soil, reaching for the sun and revitalizing hope, healing, and wonder. Florence Welch casts a new spell into the hearts of her audience through her lyrical poetry as anticipation builds for her sixth album, Everybody Scream, out October 31st. She is curating a musical garden, enriching sorrow with beauty and gifting a personal testament to her growth through hardship.
Welch allows moments to flow naturally, no matter the challenges we endure in life. During her last tour, Dance Fever in 2023, she underwent a life-changing surgery and found herself searching for healing. She sought refuge in music that ignited a fight within her spirit, sharing her determined magic and resonant strength through harmonies and restorative sound.
Florence + The Machine brings beauty to life in her album’s title track “Everybody Scream,” accompanied by a music video shot by director Autumn de Wilde. The creative theme reflects the resilience of Welch’s personal experiences as she navigates the uncertainty of a healing timeline, while capturing a transparent creative process. Recently, she showcased her craft in Useless Magic, where her work seamlessly intersected with her world, bringing clarity, beauty, and meaning to the everyday. Poetically, her alchemy translates thoughts into feelings. Her process uplifts energy as she shares it with her listeners, and her lyrics fill the imagination with violet pansies, growth, and delicate textures in every beat.
The song’s lyrics echo this spirit, weaving dance-floor abandon with vulnerability:
Get on the stage (Dance)
And I call her (Sing),
by her first name (Turn)
Try to stay away (Move)
But I always meet (Shake),
her back at this place (Scream)
She gives me everything (Love),
I feel no pain
I break down (Jump),
get up, and do it all again
Because it’s never enough (Live)
And she makes me feel love (Breathe)
I could come here (Go),
and scream as loud as I want (Scream)
Everybody dance (Ah)
Everybody sing (Ah)
Everybody move (Ah)
Everybody scream
Welch names the discomfort of change.
Moving through the present, the ballad delivers ethereal, ascending organs layered with magic. From its opening moments, a warm vibrato welcomes listeners with the calming character of her voice, offering a message through each note.
She shares the process of moving through vulnerability, fleeting feelings, and lingering thoughts while creating a sense of continuity in working through pain. Claiming her voice, she offers tender reassurance, revisits what is within her control, and asserts dominance as she moves through “magic and the misery, madness and the mystery,” arriving at a prairie of recovery.
Her words underscore this duality:
Here, I don’t have to be quiet
Here, I don’t have to be kind
Extraordinary and normal all at the same time
But look at me run myself ragged
Blood on the stage
But how can I leave you
when you’re screaming my name?
Screaming my name
I will come to you in the evening, ragged and reeling
Shaking my gold like a tambourine
A bouquet of brambles, all twisted and tangled
I’ll make you sing for me, I’ll make you scream
Everybody dance (ah)
Everybody sing (ah)
Everybody move (ah)
Everybody scream
Florence + The Machine weaves a strong theme of hope through independence, sharing the progress that shapes a healing journey. For those struggling to sit with emotions or pain, Welch transports listeners to a calming landscape where they can move through them with rhythm and healing soundscapes. The listening experience feels profoundly personal, creating a meaningful connection that lets you move with your feelings while releasing tension in the process.
Here, I can take up the whole of the sky
Unfurling, becoming my full size
And look at me burst through the ceiling
Aren’t you so glad you came?
Breathless and begging
and screaming my name
Screaming my name
Everybody jump, everybody sing
Everybody move, everybody scream
Everybody shake
Put down your screen
Everybody up, everybody scream
The witchcraft, the medicine,
the spells and the injections
The harvest, the needle
protect me from evil
The magic and the misery,
madness and the mystery
Oh, what has it done to me?
Everybody scream
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