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Boy by FLETCHER

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FLETCHER

Boy

Release date: 16th July 2025

From Would You Still Love Me If You Really Knew Me?
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About This Track

FLETCHER has spent her career laying heartbreak bare, but 'Boy' marks a shift more seismic than any before it. Built on piano and acoustic guitar, the track opens with a confession: she's been keeping a secret, and she can't hold it anymore. What unfolds is a luminous yet heavy-hearted reckoning with falling in love with a man, when her audience has come to know her almost exclusively through songs about women. The anxiety threading through the lyrics isn't performative; it's the sound of someone genuinely uncertain whether the people who've loved her will still do so when they really know her. There's a quiet radicalism in that uncertainty. FLETCHER doesn't apologise for the change, but she doesn't pretend it doesn't matter either. She acknowledges the fear, the contradiction, the way it might feel like betrayal to some. Yet she also insists on her right to follow her heart wherever it leads, even if that somewhere wasn't on anyone's bingo card. A Dork four-star record, the album containing this track is less interested in resolving its questions than in sitting with them, letting them breathe.

"Boy" is a single by FLETCHER, from the album Would You Still Love Me If You Really Knew Me?, released 16th July 2025. The track is 3:21 long. It's filed under Pop. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 20 articles about FLETCHER.

About the Artist

FLETCHER

FLETCHER

Lyrics

Boy

I've been sitting on a secret
And I don't think I can keep it anymore
I've been hiding out in northern California
Where nobody knows who I was before
Where they won't judge me in the morning

We were counting down
The music stopped
We were waiting for the ball to drop
I closed my eyes and I leaned in

I kissed a boy
And I know it's not what you wanted to hear
And it wasn't on your bingo card this year
Well, it wasn't on mine
I fell in love
And it wasn't with who I thought it would be
And I'm scared to think of what you'll think of me
His lips were soft
I had no choice
I kissed a boy

Laying my cards on the table
I'll admit, I don't know how to label it
You can think that I'm a hypocrite, that's cool
I'm just following my heart, is what it is
And only time will tell

If I will or won't do this again
Maybe I've changed
Or maybe it's just him
But I leaned in

And kissed a boy
And I know it's not what you wanted to hear
And it wasn't on your bingo card this year
Well, it wasn't on mine
I fell in love
And it wasn't with who I thought it would be
And I'm scared to think of what you'll think of me
His lips were soft
I had no choice
I kissed a boy

I kissed a boy
And I know it's not what you wanted to hear
And it wasn't on your bingo card this year
Well, it wasn't on mine
I kissed a boy

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From Would You Still Love Me If You Really Knew Me?

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Would You Still Love Me If You Really Knew Me?
Would You Still Love Me If You Really Knew Me?
FLETCHER
17th July 2025
Track number
5
Release year
2025
  1. 1Party
    3:34
  2. 2Hi, Everyone Leave Please
    2:55
  3. 3Don’t Tempt Me…
    3:56
  4. 4The Arsonist
    3:27

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  6. Don’t Tempt Me…
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  • 5Boy
    3:21
  • 6Chaos
    3:42
  • 7D i s t a n c e
    3:22
  • 8Good Girl / Gone Girl
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  • 11Would You Still Love Me?
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  • —Party
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    • Credits

    Production & Engineering

    Writer
    FLETCHER, Jennifer Decilveo, Shane McAnally
    Composer
    FLETCHER, Jennifer Decilveo, Shane McAnally
    Producer
    FLETCHER, Jennifer Decilveo
    Bass
    Patrick Kelly
    Drums
    Sam KS
    Guitar
    David Levita
    Vocals
    FLETCHER
    Assistant Mixing Engineer
    Eli Heisler
    Drum Programmer
    Jennifer Decilveo
    Mastering Engineer
    Dale Becker
    Mixing Engineer
    Rob Kinelski
    Piano
    Jennifer Decilveo
    Recording Engineer
    Jennifer Decilveo, Nick Squillante, Sean Cook
    Synthesizer
    Jennifer Decilveo
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    FLETCHER - Would You Still Love Me If You Really Knew Me?
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    28 Jul 2025 • 3:12 pm
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    18 Jul 2025 • 2:55 pm
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    A completely exhilarating exercise in accepting your flaws, taking no shit and finding new ways of fulfilment.

    20 Mar 2024 • 12:24 pm
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    We appreciate the fact you’re busy people, so in the interest of getting to the point, we’ll tell it to you straight. **Fletcher** will soon be headlining venues like London’s O2 arena.

    10 Mar 2023 • 1:25 pm
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    Fletcher - Girl Of My Dreams

    A fluid, dynamic and supremely satisfying odyssey through all the joy and pain of relationships and the human condition.

    15 Sept 2022 • 12:07 pm
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    6 Aug 2020 • 9:00 am