A dreamy, high-voltage indie pop escape, JULESY’s “Blue Lie” is a cinematic burst of youthful chaos and emotional reckoning – a restless, driving standout off her debut album ‘Flip the Bed’ that turns heartbreak and the adrenaline rush of denial into a raw, radiant, and beautifully alive reverie.

Stream: “Blue Lie” – JULESY

‘Flip the Bed’ is all centered around that period when your life is changing and you’re not ready for it… I found myself coping in a million different ways, and the songs are each little snippets of those.

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It’s a young and endless hot summer night – the kind of night where impulse wins, the road buzzes beneath your feet, and the world opens itself to you in ways you didn’t know you needed. Dressed in her best denim suit, JULESY grabs a pack of fireworks, hops on the back of a motorcycle, and jettisons off down the roads of American suburbia. Engines roaring, lights blurring, it’s the start of an adventure – carefree, spontaneous, a little chaotic – the sort of reckless freedom that only makes sense when you’re running from a feeling you can’t name yet.

That tension – the collision of escape and emotion, abandon and ache – is the beating heart of JULESY’s “Blue Lie,” a dreamy, dynamic, and feverishly alive indie pop outcry that turns personal upheaval into a cinematic, cathartic, and beautifully unguarded reverie. It’s the young artist at her most magnetic: Bold, youthful, and unafraid to let chaos be the lens through which clarity finally emerges.

Not while I’m eating
Can’t you see I’m reeling
From what I can’t swallow down
And while we’re sleeping
You’ll do your dreaming
But I’ll stay bolted to the ground

But I know you love me
I’m sure you’re the only one
I’ll ever have to hold me now
My blue lie

Atwood Magazine is proud to be premiering the music video for “Blue Lie,” a standout off JULESY’s recently released debut album Flip the Bed. Since debuting in 2021, Julesy Flavelle has found her voice in big, soaring hooks and dreamy, heart-on-sleeve singalongs – emotionally charged music that bridges the gap between ‘raw’ and ‘polished’ sound. The Brooklyn-based alt-indie pop artist has quickly become one of the most exciting new voices in New York’s vibrant DIY ecosystem, drawing comparisons to Soccer Mommy and Snail Mail while carving out something distinctly her own.

Released October 17^th via Strong Place Music and co-produced by Sahil Ansari (country girl, glom, JW Francis), the eight-track Flip the Bed is a coming-of-age whirlwind – warm, gritty, confessional, and wondrously melodic – chronicling the unraveling of a six-year relationship and the identity shift that followed. Across the record, JULESY blends effervescent pop instinct with raw emotional truth, her voice catching that sweet spot between lo-fi intimacy and widescreen catharsis.

“Blue Lie” is one of the album’s oldest pieces, and in many ways its emotional nucleus. “It came at the beginning of the end of a big relationship in my life, before I’d realized it was ending,” JULESY tells Atwood Magazine. “At this point, I was so self-critical, and felt like I didn’t really know who I was anymore. I was listening to a lot of Rocket-era Alex G and earlier Radiohead albums, and I think that grittiness really came through in this song. What really brought this song together was when we created the outro, and added that break where the drum machine comes in. Because this song was so honest and really pretty sad, both Sahil and I wanted to juxtapose that in the production. Lighter, almost sillier sounds like the ‘lalalas’ and the twangy guitar line in the chorus were our way of balancing the song.”

Now we are sober
You’d think I’m over
All the damage I have become
My teeth are grinning
The skin is thinning
And you are the body I’m on

That balance is part of what makes “Blue Lie” so compelling. The track pulses with a dreamy, effervescent brightness even as its lyrics grapple with doubt, distance, and the quiet devastation of growing apart from someone you love. Raw emotions push the song’s narrative forward as driving drums do the same to the track, guitars shimmer with nervous energy, and JULESY’s vocals glow with that unmistakable, alluring blend of boldness and vulnerability – the sound of someone bracing against change while trying to keep the ground from shifting beneath them. It’s messy in the human way, cinematic in the emotional way, and entirely alive in the way only true coming-of-age songs are.

But I know you want me
I’m sure you’re the only one
I’ll ever have to know me now
My blue lie

The “Blue Lie” music video amplifies that electricity. Directed by Charlie Hyman and shot during Myrtle Beach Bike Week, it places JULESY inside a world that mirrors the mental state she was writing from – frenetic, vibrant, and gloriously unpredictable. Real bikers. Real parties. Real late-night chaos. “The rally is so chaotic and so fun, and there are so many cool places to go and things to shoot,” she says. “It fit really well with ‘Blue Lie,’ which is about the chaos and uncertainty surrounding a breakup… realizing you’re growing apart from someone but not wanting to confront it.”

What unfolds on screen isn’t just spectacle; it’s emotional metaphor. The motorcycles, the thrill, the noise, the blur – all of it echoes the adrenaline of denial, the rush of distraction, the desire to run fast enough that the truth can’t catch you. When she finally lights those blue fireworks and sends them erupting into the dark Carolina sky, the moment lands like an exhale: Calm, cathartic, and strangely hopeful.

That duality threads through Flip the Bed in its entirety. JULESY writes from the in-between – from the hazy space where heartbreak, identity, and self-preservation crash into one another. Each song captures a different coping mechanism, a different version of herself, a different attempt to hold on or let go. Its tracks are born of mid-twenties uncertainty, but delivered with the clarity of someone beginning to see the edges of their future. The melodies sparkle, the emotions churn, and her voice becomes a vessel for everything she couldn’t say in the moment.

“I hope people find a bit of understanding and recognition,” JULESY reflects. “I lay a lot of stuff out there on this record, about times I was afraid or confused… very vulnerable. But writing vulnerably has made me nurture myself a lot more too. Putting these songs out is me practicing letting go, but also picking myself up and trusting myself. Hopefully people get a sense of that too.”

I know you know
I know you know
I know you know me now
I know you know
I know you know
I know you know me now

“Blue Lie” embodies that hope.

It captures the ache of outgrowing a world, the pull toward chaos when clarity feels too sharp, and the unexpected freedom of finally telling the truth – or watching it rise in blue sparks against the sky. It’s a standout on a debut full of tender reckoning and melodic fearlessness, and a striking testament to JULESY’s gift for turning thresholds into art.

Watch the music video below exclusively on Atwood Magazine, then join us for a conversation with JULESY about navigating beginnings and endings, joining chaos with catharsis, and the making of Flip the Bed.

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A CONVERSATION WITH JULESY

JULESY: My music taste comes from a million different inspirations. I get hooked by melodies and harmonies… it’s not necessarily genre specific. I think that contributes to how I write, what I like to listen to and therefore what I find myself wanting to create.

JULESY: “Blue Lie” is about that feeling when you and someone close to you are moving in different directions, and you’re trying to hold onto a relationship that you’ve both outgrown. It’s a sad and scary thing, but it happens, and in so many different types of relationships. I wrote this from a place of sort of white-knuckling through life, when I was really clinging onto a present that didn’t fit into my future. No one can tell you what to do in those moments, that’s maybe the hardest part. I ended up surrounding myself with chaos to stay distracted. It’s obviously not the healthiest path, but I feel like it’s also a pretty universal reaction to change. The song and the music video are about that chaos.

JULESY: My friend Charlie Hyman shot a documentary down in Myrtle Beach last year. It’s a really beautiful film following a group of bikers at the festival. When I showed him “Flip the Bed” before it came out, he insisted that we go back to Myrtle Beach and make a music video. Obviously having seen the documentary, I was totally down. The rally is so chaotic and so fun, and there are a million many cool places to go and things to shoot. It fit really well with “Blue Lie,” which is about the chaos and uncertainty surrounding a breakup/realizing you’re growing apart from someone but not wanting to confront it. All the bikers knew Charlie and were so excited to be in a video, so I just got to party and ride on these insane bikes.

JULESY: Flip The Bed is all centered around that period when your life is changing and you’re not ready for it to. I found myself coping in a million different ways, and the songs are each little snippets of those. Eventually I had to own up to a lot of stuff. I think releasing this record was hugely cathartic because it was part of that process, of reshaping my life and letting things go.

JULESY: Obviously those comparisons are huge compliments, both those bands are amazing and have definitely inspired my writing over the years. We’re also inspired by similar artists. I think because of that, I find myself in that landscape already, and have found a lot of brilliant collaborators along the way. I’m always trying to find new things that interest me, and things to try out. ML Buch made an incredible record a few years ago, Suntub. I’ve had the @ album Mind Palace Music on repeat since that came out in 2023. I’ve also been revisiting Nirvana a lot this year. These artists meld so many genres together in an effortless way, whether through production or songwriting. That is probably my biggest goal as an artist.

JULESY: I hope people find a bit of understanding and recognition. I lay a lot of stuff out there on this record, about times I was afraid or confused… very vulnerable. But writing vulnerably has made me nurture myself a lot more too. Putting these songs out is me practicing letting go, but also picking myself up and trusting myself. Hopefully people get a sense of that, too.

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:: connect with JULESY here ::

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