Gatekeeper from Virginia Supreme by BESS

VIDEO by Sofia Due Rosenzweig, beautifully capturing feelings of self-doubt and paralysis on the verge to blooming and weaving of body-shame with sense of belonging in one-self and connecting to nature

Sampled flutes ringing longingly in attempted healing of body-image and sense of poetical self, Gatekeeper is a soulful synth-carried ballad, pouring out emotional testimony to experiences of exclusion and sorrow of feeling left - love and notions of acceptance, clouded with doubt and questioning whether your premise as an identified female in patriarchal society, leaves you unwanted, solely on the basis of unproportional and unfair bias towards your gender. 💋

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4.	Gatekeeper	6:08

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Lyrics

Suddenly you rise up, suddenly you rise up
And try to show me, I shouldn’t think that I could be more like a man
Territorial behaviour
Extract one chain, cut the spare out

You’re trying to tell me I’m wrong
And now you’re fucking gatekeeping this song
Yeah, you’re trying to tell me I’m wrong
And now, you’re gatekeeping this song (yeah, don’t leave me)

You wanna tell me it’s wrong
What I’m singing and saying and what I’m doing more
I, wanted it to end anyway
(uhuhuh uhuhuh)

Oh sweet rivers of oceans of joy, where’re you at ?
What are the genitals made of anyway
It’s just blood and muscles
Skin, shame

Yeah, you’re trying to tell me I’m wrong
And now you’re fucking gatekeeping this song, yeaheahah
Yeah’, you’re trying to tell me I’m wrong
And now, you’re gatekeeping this song

Credits

from Virginia Supreme, track released August 9, 2024
Composition, production : BESS (Bess Barkholt)
Vocal, samples, beat, synths : BESS (Bess Barkholt)
Electric guitar : Mads Nørgaard
Bass-guitar : Ida Duelund Hansen
Mix : Anders Bach

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