Bria Salmena – Rags

Bria Salmena delivers raw, unbridled emotion on “Rags,” the electrifying third single from her debut solo album, “Big Dog. ” The album has been released last Friday, March 28th, via Sub Pop worldwide. The track follows previous singles “Stretch the Struggle” and “Hammer”.

“Rags” explores transgressive rage and the catharsis that comes when emotions can move freely through the body. It’s a song about rejecting external validation and reclaiming one’s authentic self. “In writing ‘Rags’ and developing the video concept in collaboration with director Julia Hendrickson, ‘accommodation’ revealed itself as the foundation of the rage we were both drawing inspiration from,” Salmena explains. “Altering your values to accommodate external expectations was a feeling I knew all too well from my adolescence. When I realized I was losing myself, as an adult, to the same vices of external validation, I felt like an angry teenage girl all over again.”