The track is from the artist’s liberating, long-awaited new LP The Eldest Daughter
On her captivating and thought-provoking new single ‘Florida Man’, Gatlin takes an introspective and stirring look at her past, and takes a look back at the expectations, contradictions, and deeply ingrained ideologies that she has had to endure and eventually break away from growing up in the conversative American south.
The track has a really resonating glow and likeable charm that makes for a truly engrossing listen, championing the independence and liberation that she has found through going her own way and detaching herself from her expected role of The Eldest Daughter, the concept that her excellent new album of the same name is written around. This sense of carefree joy and catharsis makes for a really powerful track that listeners will draw their own parallels with and fall in love with, something that that album as a whole does such a great job of achieving.
“This record is me exploring distance and perspective from my past — of owning the good and the bad and how they both informed the way I’ve made my own life,” Gatlin reflects. “I know now who I am, where I’m from, and where I’m going.”
