PHEA - Ride or Die

The Berlin and LA-based singer, songwriter, and producer PHEA has gone through life-changing experiences and used music as a way to cope with them. While her new song has an upbeat, cheerful vibe, she also uses a moving original soundbite of her describing the situation at the hospital.

"Ride or Die" is the third single off PHEA's upcoming EP Flowers on Caskets - Teaching a Cyborg How to Bury People, out on August 22.

She explains:

I was ten years old the first time I was reanimated after my heart went into cardiac arrest. After being put into an induced coma, open-heart surgery, receiving my first implanted defibrillator, and seven weeks in intensive care, I was "up and functioning," ready to be discharged as a medically defined cyborg. Over and over again, I was told how happy and thankful I must be to still be alive, walking, speaking and not brain-dead. 

She adds

What I didn't know back then was that I had every right to "not be okay," to feel like my body had been taken apart and put back together without consent, and with that, my sense of self ravished. Medical advances are what helped me survive against all odds and led me on a journey of questioning my survival, learning to claim my body again, and finding purpose and comfort in using my biggest fears and insecurities as a strength.

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