Los Angeles-based alternative R&B duo Mermaid shares their neo-soul single, ‘Purr’.
Brittany Campbell and Candace Quarrels are a genre bending duo that will always surprise you. Alongside their latest single/video, Mermaid announced their debut album Iridescence, out 20th October.
‘Purr’ is a song that evolved from something simple and carefree to heavy and complex. Mermaid shares the following about their latest track:
“‘Purr’ started with our cat Splatt…she has this very loud, deep purr. It developed into this silly song that we’ve mumbled over for a long time without knowing what it was about. Then George Floyd happened, and that’s when the lyrics came to be. It’s a song that started off quite playfully but became more so about what was happening in the world and being stuck inside the house and ingesting all this darkness through Instagram. Even outside of the pandemic, it’s about feeling stuck and seeing everything that’s happening in the world and wanting to scream about it all the time…But also feeling like there’s nothing you can do and that the powers that be aren’t listening as much as they pretend to. It’s a song about being lost and stuck in the system.”
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