# @thefader on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DJuHNnwOjNz
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/30611689-thefader-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-05-16T16:05:23.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The FADER (@thefader) — https://gondola.cc/thefader

## Caption

It’s appropriate that the first new wolfaliceband song in four years deals with the notion of revival. Getting the band back together is far from Ellie Rowsell’s mind, though. She cycles through anger, pain, and self-belief on “Bloom, Baby Bloom,” a song that uses masculine rock star tropes to underline her experiences as a woman. Rowsell’s vocal gymnastic routine begins with an opening verse delivered in falsetto where she lashes out at a “fucking baby, baby man” and flicks him into obscurity with the sharp, “See this fire in my eyes boy, that’s your flash in the pan.”⁠
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Rowsell admits her scorn is masking her own shortcomings and she pleads for an opportunity to drop her guard. “I'm so sick and tired of trying to play it hard,” she howls at herself as the drums and a fizzing bassline kick in. The frustration of trying to be a woman who is strong, confident, and in control while being at the mercy of yet another disappointing man spews out and lands in her own.⁠
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Watch the music video at the link in bio.⁠
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📸 Rachel Fleminger Hudson⁠
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#WolfAlice

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