An energetic take on the possibilities and precarities of self-presentation, "BLONDE" is the product of a joke taken too seriously, paired with Raffaella's love for a New Yorker piece on Joyce Carol Oates’s Blonde (a fictional account of Marilyn Monroe’s inner life). Upbeat and playful, "BLONDE" features bouncing guitar riffs and exuberant lyrics about the little details of life. Produced by Hippo Campus's Jake Luppen, "BLONDE" pairs perfectly with a Lizzie McGuire-esque, Y2K-inspired video.
About "BLONDE" Raffaella shares, "Establishing who I am through 'BLONDE' is a representation of my past (having been blonde for my entire childhood/most of my adolescence) and also my future (becoming my very blonde mother)... sonically matches the nostalgia of a blonde upbringing, the longing for a new personality that's closer to the freedom I felt as a kid... I only really know how to be optimistic if it's presented through some sort of defensive mechanism; be it humor or hyperbole"