Premiere: Gatlin Shares New Observe “Florida Man”
Debut LP, The Eldest Daughter is Out October third through Dualtone Data
Oct 02, 2025
Tomorrow, alt pop singer/songwriter Gatlin is about to share her debut album, The Eldest Daughter. The document arrives following her 2020 EP, Sugarcoated, and her subsequent releases, 2021’s To Remind Me of Dwelling EP and 2023’s I Sleep Tremendous Now EP. For her full-length debut, Gatlin discovered herself revisiting the childhood years she spent closeted in a conservative Christian neighborhood in Florida, centering the album round tales of coming of age, self-discovery, and burgeoning independence.
Gatlin has spent the summer season steadily sharing new singles from the document, starting with a susceptible reflection on childhood queerness, “If She Was a Boy” and following most not too long ago with final month’s dramatic indie ballad, “Soho Home Valet.” At this time, forward of the album’s launch, Gatlin is sharing an early take heed to one of many document’s highlights, “Florda Man,” alongside an accompanying video, premiering with Below the Radar.
“Florida Man” is a tune that explores what it’s prefer to be caught between two worlds, with Gatlin finally selecting to stroll away kind the expectations of household and neighborhood and embrace one thing releasing and genuine. Fittingly, the monitor itself can be a sunny mix of shimmering and sprawling indie pop alongside pastoral Americana textures. Gatlin intersperses the hovering refrain and luxurious manufacturing with keening pedal metal and guitar twang, all as her lyrics supply a defiant retort to the stifling tradition of management she grew up below: “I wanna make it large / Wanna kiss every kind of individuals / However you retain making an attempt to suit my fats ass by a needle / I’m solely judging you for judging me on who I wanna love / I might go to for the summer season, however you gained’t let me carry my crush.”
Gatlin says of the monitor, “The irony of getting written a tune referred to as “Florida Man” in London with a Brit isn’t misplaced on me. However this tune is my empowering assertion with a splash of ‘fuck you’ to the life my household and neighborhood rising up wished for me. I wished it to soar and to be at liberty within the manufacturing as a result of the lyric isn’t solely about taking management of the life I’ve determined to dwell, however sticking up for it. I had been listening to lots of Brit Pop and Rock since I used to be working within the UK – and particularly The Verve’s “Bittersweet Symphony” and Primal Scream’s Screamadelica. I feel elements of these influences are seeped into this monitor.”
Try the tune and video beneath. The Eldest Daughter is out on October third through Dualtone Data.
