Boyfriend Shares Adam & Eve-Inspired Single 'Bite' From Concept Album 'In the Garden'
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By: Josh Sharpe Apr. 02, 2025
Singer-songwriter Boyfriend has released the next single, “BITE,” from In The Garden, a new concept album reimagining the biblical story of Adam and Eve through a feminist and queer lens. "BITE” is a mostly instrumental electronic track with pulsing, snapping synths and rushes of acoustic guitar.
“‘BITE’ is the catastrophe (in modern terms, climax) itself, the culmination of the building action, where Eve finally crosses the boundary she’s been pushing against from the start and takes the bite,” Boyfriend explains. “The song opens with Eve asking questions – as she is the desire for knowledge personified – and these questions lay out the paradox of this origin story.
Listen to the single here:
“The song is mostly instrumental, allowing the listener to envision the action unfolding and giving contemplative space to an otherwise very lyric-dependent project here at the crucial moment of action. If Eve embodies curiosity, and this project aims to recast her as the hero and curiosity as a virtue rather than a failing, then the project itself seeks to not only offer questions, but space for questioning. This instrumental moment in the album has purposeful sonic scene changes, including lyrics from the other characters in rhythmic overlapping samples.”
A fusion of music, theater, and social commentary, the ambitious In the Garden – which blends bold storytelling and an all-star cast of collaborators including Scissor Sisters’ frontman Jake Shears, Billy Porter, Peaches, and Big Freedia – arrives Friday, May 9 via Big Freedia’s Queen Diva Music (distributed by The Orchard). Pre-saves are available now. Out today is “BITE,” an electro-pop soundtrack for the most famous bite taken in history.
BOYFRIEND - TOUR 2025
APRIL
26 - New Orleans, LA - Esplanade Studios
27 - New Orleans, LA - New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
MAY
3 - New Orleans, LA - Toulouse Theatre*
6 - New York, NY - Joe’s Pub
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