“Before, love used to be this really dramatic thing for me,” she reflects. Grappling with the complexities of the lightness and darkness inside her, she oscillates between morbid self-deprecation, heart-achingly vulnerable admissions, and consoling affirmations, allowing herself to feel every emotion fully and lay them to rest.Ī former hopeless romantic, De Souza first had to disentangle her identity from her past loves. With renewed clarity, De Souza grieves the inevitable losses that temporality promises while also celebrating every opportunity to love and love again. Like one big exhale, Any Shape You Take bids the sting of old wounds farewell, finding solace in the acceptance of change-one of the few, universal constants in life. Desperately ready to move forward, she found her great release writing her sophomore record. Her world and the world at large flipped upside-down, she realized that there was no going back to how things were or who she was before. She lost sight of herself for a while, hitting a low point a few years ago as she bid her ex-bandmates farewell as they moved on to other projects, struggled with her mental health, and went through a drawn-out breakup with a longtime partner. Like they can relate to me, but I can’t really relate to them,” De Souza admits. “I don’t feel like I can relate to a lot of people. Stream: ‘Any Shape You Take’ – Indigo De Souza It’s very easy to become friends with her music, to sink into it and absorb it all until you’re convinced you know her. From painfully honest tales of young love and heartache (platonic and romantic alike) to charmingly self-deprecating existential monologues, De Souza’s confessions are equal parts party and catharsis.īetween danceable indie-rock anthems, soulful doo-wop, emo acoustic moments, and nostalgic bedroom pop beats, she creates a self-portrait made up of all the things that make her who she is-the epic highs and lows, the ever-colorful range inside her head and heart.
Listening to an Indigo De Souza song feels like getting wasted and galivanting with your best friend on a warm, summer night in your youth, crying with them as they spill their guts to you, and hugging them so tightly you feel part of one another, ultimately returning to laughter despite it all. A Cancer to her core, she is just as empathetic in person as she is in her music. When she asks you how you’re doing, she isn’t just going through basic pleasantries-I admit that I’m feeling groggy, to which she asks, “Groggy like you’re tired, or groggy like you’re sad?” with genuine concern. Soft-spoken and perhaps a little shy, she is a thoughtful conversationalist, nonetheless. Any Shape You Take – Indigo De SouzaĪs we sit together on our screens from across the country, De Souza is much more introverted than her buoyant stage presence lets on. No matter how she fluctuates as both an artist and a human being, she is always Indigo.
Loyal to no one genre or scene, her soul-baring artistry, and the overflowing emotions within every song are too vast to fit neatly into one box. In her twentysomething years on this planet, Indigo De Souza has been, and continues to be, many things. ENGLISH SPEECH | CARA DELEVINGNE: Battling Depression (English Subtitles)
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