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Indigo De Souza- \\u201cYounger and Dumber\\u201d from the 2023 album All of This Will End on Saddle Creek

On today\'s Song of the Day,\\xa0Asheville, NC-based artist\\xa0Indigo De Souza reflects on the insecurities of her youth. The track serves as a sneak peek to her forthcoming full-length, All Of This Will End, which will be released\\xa0April 28th via Saddle Creek.\\xa0

In a press statement, she shares:

\\u201cYounger and Dumber\\u201d is a flood beam of my emotional and spiritual human experience. My growing up defeated by a world brutally littered with trash, violence and grief, and somehow finding beauty, purpose, and boundless love existing in the same place. This song felt really emotionally intense for me when I wrote it. I was sitting in my house and it kind of flowed right to me as if it had already been written by some other force. A lot of the lyrics are a nod to the idea that your experiences make you who you are. I endured some heavy darkness and dysfunction when I was a teenager. But if I hadn\\u2019t been through those things, I wouldn\\u2019t be who I am now. When you\\u2019re young, you don\\u2019t know any better, but you learn from your experiences, and then you become somebody who\\u2019s been alive and learning. It\\u2019s also about how heartbreaking that is; to start as a child with vivid curiosity, innocent imagination and joy, and for the world to end up being kind of brutal to be a part of. This song is a love letter to everyone\\u2019s inner child. No one can prepare us for how insane it is to be alive. How many times we will have to rise from the ashes and what courage it will take.

De Souza directed the song\'s accompanying music video, as well as co-designed the costumes alongside her mother. Of the clip, she says:

I took psilocybin for the shoot. I have a very specific way of dancing when I\\u2019m on mushrooms. The movements feel like electricity rising up from the earth through ancient networks of mycelium. It feels like the trees and plants are moving my body for me and I am just surrendering. It feels so clear to me now more than ever, how important it is to unabashedly embody my truest spirit. Because I am not special, and I\\u2019m fleeting, and it feels like it\\u2019s my purpose to help mobilize others to come home to themselves. To wake from our societal sleepwalk and consider the importance in creating deep connection within community and relationships. To find a preciousness in the time we have and the earth we\\u2019re nourished by. To see nature in all its primordial magic, as something to learn from and grow with. Something to protect.

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