Brooklyn-based artist Avery Friedman celebrates queerness with flirtatious new single ‘Photo Booth’ – our #singleoftheweek
‘Photo Booth’ follows Friedman’s debut single ‘Flowers Fell’, with debut album, New Thing is out 18 April via Audio Antihero.
On ‘Photo Booth’, Friedman captures the euphoric rush of the intimate space of a photo booth and the flirtatious energy once the curtain falls. ‘Photo Booth’ is a special track that explores this exciting moment through Friedman’s (and many others) own queer experience.
“I wrote this song after a vibrant night out with my friends last winter – a night memorialized by many chaotic photo booth strips. Something about the novelty, containment and ephemerality of a photo booth just invites a sort of flirtatious mischief. This night out in particular felt like an encapsulation of spin-the-bottle-type ‘second adolescence’ that many queer people experience when coming into themselves after their adolescent years pass. This song came into itself when we decentered my guitar, and surrendered to the more chaotic, pop-adjacent production it was asking for.”
Avery Friedman
Upcoming shows:
9/3 – Hole in the Wall – Austin, TX
23/3 – Trans-Pecos – Queens, NY
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