In Search Of The Antidote

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FLETCHER’s second full-length album <i>In Search of the Antidote</i> is unfiltered and raw, a desperate and thrilling attempt to find joy, even during life’s lowest moment. “I've been able to figure out who I am through music over the year,” the New Jersey-born pop singer tells Apple Music. “It's been the vessel for me exploring myself. Even now, looking back even at what all my projects have been called—<i>Finding Fletcher</i>, <i>THE S(EX) TAPES [Shot By My Ex]</i>, <i>Girl of My Dreams</i>—here's been these through lines of me just deeply searching.” That is evident even in the album title: FLETCHER asks what it means to find a cure if you don’t know what exactly is wrong in the first place. Just because you feel a poison, there may not be a cure. FLETCHER experienced this conundrum firsthand in 2023 when she was diagnosed with Lyme disease. The puzzling nature of the illness caused her to question the things she felt, and this journey from self-doubt to working through the struggles in song form makes up the emotional arc of <i>In Search of the Antidote</i>. “I went on a search to go find the antidote to what was happening in my body, and the antidote has been many things for me over the course of my life,” she say. “It's been the women, it's been fan, it's been stage, it's been bottles of tequila, it's been writing petty-ass music. This last year, it was healing. The antidote was healing and finding answer.” .

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