Mahalia has dropped her brand new single, ‘Whatever Simon Says’.
Following on from previous releases ‘Letter To Ur Ex’, ‘Whenever You’re Ready’ and ‘Roadside’, Mahalia explains: “Everybody who knows me knows that I definitely don’t follow social norms and shitty beauty standards. I’ve always been someone who has never let people try to change me – especially my romantic partners. This song is about wanting it to work with someone but knowing it ultimately can’t because their expectation of what type of woman I should be is just far too high. I feel like “whatever Simon says” is every girls ‘fuck you’ to the system that has always been set up through a male gaze. It’s us saying that we are going to be everything we want to be because we want it. And not because a man tells us to.”
It comes alongside a video directed and shot by Mahalia on a recent writing trip to LA, which you can check out below.
“We’re all fixated on how we can make ourselves better during and after this period of time,” Mahalia offers, “but I want people to also reminisce on lovely or painful situations they’ve lived through and how they’ve helped shape the people they are now.”
