Stevie Bill kicks off 2025 with “Fan,” an electrifying indie pop anthem that celebrates the highs, heartaches, and intoxicating intimacy of fandom. With a clever nod to the Beatles, soaring melodies, and a chorus built for belting, the Atwood artist-to-watch captures the all-consuming magic of feeling close to someone who doesn’t even know you exist.
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Aren’t we all just a little bit in love with our favorite artists?
We often talk about the relationship between artists and their fans as a “parasocial” connection, and it’s relatively easy to understand why: Fans form a personal bond to the artist through their work, finding commonality and even community, despite never knowing the artist personally. In point of fact, most of us are more in love with the songs than we are with the singer, but that didn’t stop our teenage selves from hanging posters in our bedrooms.
Hot on the heels of her sophomore EP (which featured in Atwood’s Best EPs of 2024), Stevie Bill’s first single of the year is an ode to that ever-so-special artist-audience dynamic, and what it feels like to be a “fan.” Opening with a clever interpolation of a fairly familiar – yet nonetheless distinct and original! – melody, “Fan” is, well, one for the fans: A song that celebrates feeling ever-so close to someone who doesn’t even know we exist!
I once had a boy
Or should I say
He once had me
I sit by the phone
Hoping he calls
At least once a week
I’m touching too far
Touching myself
Thinking of him
There’s just one little thing
He doesn’t know I exist
“Have you ever felt like you truly know someone, even though you don’t actually know them?” Bill tells Atwood Magazine. “You see them, hear them, and it feels like you just get each other. Like they’re your best friend, or maybe someone you’d love to get even closer to.”
“It’s almost like being in a relationship, right? Because let’s be honest, when you’re a fan, aren’t you just a little bit in love too? That weird mix of feeling super connected, even though there’s a whole world between you. That is what ‘Fan’ is all about.”
Bill rises to a cathartic, emotionally charged climax in the chorus. Rosey guitars roar and soar around her as she rides the high of that one-sided relationship – a kind of intimacy that knows no limits, nor distance:
Don’t spoil my appetite
I just wanna feel like you are mine
I watch you in the spotlight
You’d do me when the lights are off
So I can be your fan
One of Atwood Magazine‘s top artist discoveries of 2024 and a 2025 artist to watch, Stevie Bill has entered the new year with a bona fide bop.
“Fan” is a feel-good love song for all of us romantic music lovers out there – an anthem we can cherish for years to come, while singing aloud at the top of our lungs.
And while the “original” version of this song was unfortunately removed and replaced with a new verse (The Beatles are notoriously litigious, and apparently Bill’s loving nod to “Norwegian Wood” was seen as a more than ‘wink’ to the concepts of fandom and Beatlemania by Sony’s copyright team), “Fan” still slams – or as she wrote, “Even with the new verse the chorus still bangs as hard as ever!!!! (No pun intended)”
Don’t spoil her appetite, and don’t spoil ours, either: “Fan” is a slam dunk – an indie pop fever dream we’ll be singing and swaying to all year long.
I once knew a girl
Who wanted to be known
For something important
She showed me the world
With every song
And every word
I know her so wеll
She’s touching my mind
Touching her skin
Therе’s just one little thing
She doesn’t know I exist
Don’t spoil my appetite
I just wanna feel like you are mine
I watch you in the spotlight
You’d do me when the lights are off
So I can be your fan
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