- 2021-11-12
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MUSIC
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Donate to support families affected by the crisis in Ukraine ➔ Wellington Bullings Drops New Music Video for “Flame”
Boulder-based singer-songwriter Wellington Bullings released a new song “Flame” on October 29, 2021.
It is her first single since her 2020 debut album “Because I Want To”.
The song is about celebrating the beauty and power of being a black woman. It was written and produced by Wellington Bullings and Tim Wendel.
Inspired by the racial injustice that resurfaced in 2020, the song is meant to honor those who lost their lives due to racial injustice.
On November 11, she dropped a new music video for the song directed by Katrina Miller. She filmed the video this Spring.
“I wrote the song in 2020, when we experienced a lot of the resurfacing of racial injustice, and it was my way to respond to what was going on at the time,” Wellington Bullings said. “I think that music is very powerful; it can change our moods, it can change the way we think about the world, it can change so much with how we perceive ourselves. I think that having a strong message that can connect to a lot of people can create a spark of motivation for change. It can inspire people to move in that direction, so I felt like the best way I could do that was through music.”- She continued, “I've always wanted to write a song about this, because being a Black woman, I have these experiences, I've dealt with a lot of these things throughout my life. But I just felt an extra push and an extra motivation to write about it at that time because of the intensity around all the racial injustice we were experiencing at once. I felt compelled to write it in that moment because I wanted to deal with it internally, and it was also a way to express what was going on.”
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Photo by Meg MacDonald - source : Apple Music
