Donna Missal is here with a response. To the label that dropped her; to a wave of professional lows and struggles that found her living out of her car and on friends’ couches just last year; and to the spark she knew she still carried within her. That response is titled “Flicker,” an urgent flame of empower-pop that might be the best song of the Los Angeles artist’s still-blooming creative career.
The nightclub-ready, dance-pop sparkler pushes forward with relentless ambition. It hit this past Friday (March 24), produced by Ceci Gomez and Veronika Jane Wyman of DAGR and Billboard, co-written with DAGR and Em Walcott, and released independently via ADA Worldwide.
“I wrote ‘Flicker’ with my friends after I got dropped from my record deal, so it’s got this fierce energy about it,” Missal says. “It’s my way of coming out of that experience swinging, fighting for myself.”
The accompanying video channels her passion into what she calls a visual representation of her journey, working with director and choreographer Sadie Wilking to capture the raw passion and determination she’s funneled into this release.
“I made the music video to put myself through something physically painful and transforming, to push my own limits in my art to reflect where I was at in my life,” Missal adds. “I trained for a couple of months before we shot and it was something so challenging for me to sink into, to keep me off social media and connecting with my body in this new way, reaching my own breaking points and getting past them, failing hard and still getting up the next day and trying again until I had it down. The experience itself became this representation of endurance and fortitude that I made this whole new album about, so I’m just really excited to be sharing it, especially after being as private as I’ve been during the process.”
“Flicker” forward with Missal below.
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