Karen Dio Drops “Free Yourself” Single & Video From Upcoming “Fugaz” EP

Following the breakout success of her debut EP, My World, Brazil’s Karen Dió has announced that her second EP, Fugaz, will be released on August 21st via Hopeless Records. Powered by the viral success of Sick Ride and a run of shows alongside artists including Limp Bizkit, Sum 41 and Garbage, Dió continues her rapid rise with her brand new single, Free Yourself.

“Funnily enough, Free Yourself is a song that I dreamed of. Most of the time I unfortunately forget the songs by the time I’m awake, but I’m glad I remembered this one. Later the same day, I decided to work on it and the melody of the chorus immediately came. When I showed the embryo of it to Matt (Bigland of Dinosaur Pile, Karen’s husband and writing-partner), he immediately was like, ‘That’s a hit!’ so we started to write the rest. During the whole process of writing Free Yourself we would remind ourselves to be completely free with our creativity and, to be honest, to try being ridiculous sometimes. One of my favourite parts of the song came from an improvisation where I said “Jeans are dangerous,” and Matt thought it was great, but he thought I said “Genes are dangerous.” We loved both quotes, but we decided to go with “Genes are dangerous” because it felt more provocative.”