girl in red

“Serotonin” is the newest single from the Norwegian singer-songwriter Marie Ulven known as her artist name, girl in red. Collaborating with Billie Eilish’s brother, Finneas, the song will be on her upcoming debut album, if i could make it all go quiet set for release on April 30^th via AWAL Recordings. Technically, “Serotonin” has been in the works for Marie since she was 12-years-old.

“My dad was in a car accident when I was 12 and that like f*****d me up completely, and that like triggered so much s*** for me,” girl in red explains. “That has stuck around pretty much up until now and I went to therapy and I learned a lot about intrusive thoughts and OCD… and I learned that a thought is just a thought. And I think learning when your mind makes you think or what your mind makes you think you want to do… isn’t necessarily always real.”

While she can’t completely pinpoint the moment where she decided to process her intrusive thoughts lyrically, Marie shares, “it sort of like poured out of me last summer. The first ‘rap part’ that I call it, just came out of me really quickly, and then the second one took a little bit longer to get out because… obviously I wanted something that meant a lot to me.”

The 22-year-old behind girl in red has written many singles and two EP’s over the last couple of years. At age 14, Ulven, began cutting through all the internet noise and clutter and uploading her own music to YouTube. By the time she turned 18, the singer started seeing glimmers of success with her 2018, bedroom pop-inspired track “I wanna be your girlfriend.” Now 1.69 million YouTube subscribers later, girl in red is at the precipice of Alt Queen stardom.

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