- 2025-06-06
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MUSIC
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FLETCHER Announces New Album “Would You Still Love Me If You Really Knew Me?”, Shares New Song “Boy”
American singer-songwriter FLETCHER is back. She has announced her upcoming third studio album “Would You Still Love Me If You Really Knew Me?” will be released on July 18, 2025 via Capitol Records.
The album is her first body of work in a year since the 2024 album “In Search of the Antidote” and comprises 11 tracks.
FLETCHER said of the album, “This is my heart split open on record. Born from my terrifying question: would I Still be loved if I shared who I am right now? I tried to gather my thoughts and feelings to share time and time again, so I did it in the best way I know how. I wrote an album. It is the sound of my cracking, but it is also the sound of my exhale. Both an open wound and an act of liberation, it marks the start of a new chapter in a longer story. One I am still learning how to tell. So let's start. Not at the beginning, but somewhere in the middle.”
From the album, she unveiled the first single called “Boy” on June 5, 2025.
On the track, she expresses that she is falling in love with a boy, while being queer.
The track was written by Cari Fletcher, Jennifer Decilveo, and Shane McAnally. Produced by FLETCHER and Jennifer Decilveo.- FLETCHER told Rolling Stone about the song, “I had met a boy and started feeling romantic and emotional feelings, and we kissed. I was like, “What the fuck is going on?” My whole world felt flipped upside down. I've always written about my love stories and my heart and very candidly written about what I've been experiencing. 'Boy' is just another love story. 'Boy' is just one revelation of many. It's not an album about a guy.”
She continued, “'Boy' is really a permission slip for me to be myself. And for me to love and express myself. I just want it to be a permission slip, you know. I'm stepping into this bravery even if I'm scared, in hopes that other people are able to do that in their own lives.”
She added, “Here I am, 10 years later at the start of my thirties, with a song about falling in love with a boy. Through this entire time, all I've expressed.... My deepest desire for people was for them to boldly and unapologetically be themselves. And I have to walk that walk.” -
She shared on social media, “What an honor it is to be queer. It is truly one of my life's biggest gifts that has allowed me to live with such an open heart and curiosity about all the ways it wants to be expressed, held & celebrated. Oh the places it has taken me.”
Photo by Carissa Gallo - source : Apple Music
