I'll Call It What I Want

girl in red's "I'll Call It What I Want" is a defiant, self-possessed rock cut from Marie Ulven's evolution beyond her bedroom-pop beginnings into bigger, sharper-edged production. The track snarls with crunchy guitars, a driving rhythm section, and a chorus built for a head-thrown-back release. Ulven's vocal carries her characteristic Norwegian-accented directness — conversational, slightly bratty, brimming with hard-won confidence. The emotional landscape is reclamation: refusing to let anyone else define her, her relationships, or her worth, planting a flag in her own autonomy. Lyrically it's assertive and unapologetic, the sound of someone who's done explaining herself, naming her own terms after years of being told who to be. girl in red built a devoted queer fanbase on her earlier, softer songs about same-sex longing — "do you listen to girl in red?" became shorthand for sapphic identity — and here that intimacy hardens into empowerment. The cultural weight is real: she's a figurehead for a generation of young LGBTQ+ listeners who found themselves in her honesty. This is music for driving with the windows down, for shaking off someone's opinion of you, for the cathartic moment of choosing yourself. It rewards anyone who needs a soundtrack for standing their ground, the guitars and the attitude meeting in a roar of self-definition.