FLETCHER, Ego Talking | Beaming with Pride 🏳️‍🌈

In the 19^th edition of Beaming with Pride 🏳️‍🌈 (2024), we highlight the song, “Ego Talking” performed by FLETCHER. 

Prepare to beam with P-R-I-D-E 🏳️‍🌈! Beaming with Pride 🏳️‍🌈 celebrates, embraces, and spotlights songs by LGBTQ musicians or allies. In this column, we provide background and insight into the musician(s) and analyze + go gaga over the decadent bops served up. Furthermore, when the music dictates deeper, transcendent discussion we ensure the point is fully articulated.  All styles of music are welcome while the songs can be classics or brand-spanking new. So, without further ado, in the 19^th edition of Beaming with Pride 🏳️‍🌈 (2024), we highlight “Ego Talking” performed by FLETCHER.

“And it’s only half of a lie / When I say you’ll find someone better someday.” So, there is some truth there! “Ego Talking” is the third track on In Search of the Antidote, the 2024 studio LP by FLETCHER (Cari Fletcher). The LGBTQ pop musician penned “Ego Talking” alongside Julia Michaels, Madison Love, and producers Jennifer Decliveo and Pete Nappi. Matters of the heart are firmly in play. This post-breakup record thrives lyrically and thematically.

On one hand, FLETCHER encourages her ex to have happiness with someone else. “So, go, do it all, have the time of your life / And kiss every girl, let ‘em all stay the night.” It’s the right thing to do, right? Right. The gender of her ex isn’t specified. It doesn’t matter either, as this sentiment is relatable to anybody regardless of sexual orientation. More compelling is FLETCHER’s ego, which leads her to believe her ex will NEVER do better than she did with her.

“Oh-oh, you’ll never fuck somebody hotter, right?

Oh-oh-oh-oh

Hope my lips haunt you for life

Hearin’ my name twists the knife

Hopin’ you stay brokenhearted

But that’s just my ego talkin’”

Oh, snap! FLETCHER brilliantly captures the complexity of breaking up on “Ego Talking”.  She sings authentically and expressively.

FLETCHER // In Search of the Antidote // Snapback Entertainment LLC / UMG Recordings, Inc. // 2024

FLETCHER, Ego Talking: Beaming with Pride 🏳️‍🌈 No. 19 (2024) [📷: Brent Faulkner/ The Musical Hype; Snapback Entertainment LLC / UMG Recordings, Inc.; Elias Souza, Los Muertos Crew from Pexels; CatsWithGlasses, Maicon Fonseca Zanco, Square Frog, Sudo from Pixabay]