Lucy Fitzgerald 
Melbourne/Naarm artist Kat Greta returns with “Audacity”, out Friday, July 3. On the surface, it’s a bright, hooky slice of indie pop built for the dance floor, but after more than one listen, the cracks start to show. Underneath all that shine is a song about grief and about trying to make sense of a loss that doesn’t play by any rules. The track follows her debut EP from last November, which already made clear she’s got a serious gift for pop songwriting. “Audacity” takes that same instinct and turns the volume all the way up while quietly carrying something much harder beneath the surface. Written after a major personal loss, the song sits in that strange, disorienting space between mourning and trying to move forward, all wrapped in glittery dance production.
From the very first line, Greta’s vocals come through with a distorted edge, like she’s singing from behind a mask before slowly letting the real emotion show. The drums land with immediate punch, the electronic layers glow around her, and the guitar fills out the space, all while her voice stays the clear center of gravity. Co-producer Seetali Mack helped shape a sound that gives Greta room to sit with the strangeness of loss, that unsettling feeling of everyday life rolling on exactly as it always has while your own world quietly falls apart. As Greta describes it, the song is about “the emotional whiplash of grief, where the world carries on as usual while yours quietly falls apart.”
The music video, filmed around Melbourne’s inner CBD by director Francis Biay, captures that same feeling visually. Greta stays still and composed in the foreground while neon lights and city motion blur past her, mirroring that sense of being frozen while everything else keeps moving. This is one of the more honest pop songs to come out of Melbourne this year, and it manages to be sad and fun at exactly the same time, which is a genuinely difficult balance to strike. It’s a track that hits harder the more you sit with it. Make sure to give Kat Greta a follow so you don’t miss what she puts out next, and add “Audacity” to your playlists. It’s a song that only gets better with repeat listens, and one that deserves a much bigger audience than it’s likely to get on the first pass.
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