Fie Eike has a thing about water. In previous singles from her forthcoming debut album she took us up an Egyptian river without a paddle in ‘The Nile’ then took us for a dive into the ‘Deep End’. There was also a track called ‘Water’, which flowed past us, sadly unnoticed.
Now she returns with ‘Fluid’, which “explores what happens when we lose the connection to ourselves in our pursuit of belonging.”
One thing you can guarantee with Fie is that she will always conjure up a thoughtful, philosophical piece and ‘Fluid’ is no exception.
I tried to get my head around what she means by “…it explores the feeling or state of ‘fluidity’, where we lose the connection to ourselves and our core because we ‘over-adapt’ in order to fit in, and our boundaries become fluid in our existential pursuit of belonging.”
I suppose that’s like being a 15-year old girl who doesn’t see what all the fuss is about Taylor Swift, but has her face staring out of all her social media orifices anyway because she’s scared of a bad reaction from her Swiftie friends.
It’s a question of adapt or die, I reckon. The alternative that Fie expounds is that we should “belong to ourselves and have a sense of separateness that allows both ourselves and others to see us clearly.”
It’s definitely deep water to get into and some artists might get out of their depth but not Fie.
It’s less of a song and more of a composition; a mini symphony indeed, in three parts which might represent still water – say in a pond – a gently flowing river, white water rapids and a waterfall. It’s every bit as lush as her previous tracks (on one of them I recall comparing her to Emmy the Great on her ‘Swimming Pool’ and I’ll stick with that analogy, and her voice would melt the heart of any shark or croc lurking in those depths.
The lyrics are sparse and couched in such a fashion that you have to work hard to reconcile them to the thought process (above) that created them.
Towards the end things become slightly clearer with:
“Where did you go/into the waves/ where nothing lasts/and everything fades
In beautiful decay/overflow out of this shape/unform/Into the void
Emulsions disperse and destroy/the one,”
Which I’ll take a stab at meaning, ‘cast off your mantle of populism and embrace individualism.’ Or something like that.
I don’t think Fie is going to score many #1 hits on Pop FM but she’s going to be very popular in the coffee shops and bars of Vesterbro if she isn’t already.
Find her on:
Website: https://www.fieeike.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fieeike
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