I might be an avid music listener or an extreme people-pleaser for having more than 12,000 songs saved on Spotify… BUT Franny London’s new single “Funny Girl” made its way into my favorites, and London gained herself a new fan. The new art pop song might be a modern-day smash, but the spacey synths and magical melodies of voice and instruments transport me to a club in the 80s with retro lights and smog machines blowing onto neon-wearing partygoers.

Franny London deserves all the acclaim for this well-crafted single, as she wrote and produced it herself. With inspiration from artists like Stevie Nicks and Sharon Van Etten, London has written herself a song you want to twirl around to in a Stevie-inspired cape. There is a power that comes from listening to the song, both lyrically and spiritually. London speaks on her inspiration for ‘Funny Girl’ and says she wanted to write a song for her younger self, to reflect on her growth as a woman, and to connect to her younger self to nurture that part of herself that still exists inside.

Existing in the same timeline as the new Barbie movie, this song is the perfect girl power anthem that also contains lyrical poetry relating to a woman’s story of girlhood to womanhood. This single most definitely had me sitting in my room, grasping nostalgic pictures of myself in my preteens. 13-year-old me would have loved to have this song, and 24-year-old me gets to hear it for the both of us.

Take a listen and let the memories fill your head.