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Oct 02, 2025 By Caleb Campbell

Tomorrow, alt pop singer/songwriter Gatlin is set to share her debut album, The Eldest Daughter. The record arrives following her 2020 EP, Sugarcoated, and her subsequent releases, 2021’s To Remind Me of Home EP and 2023’s I Sleep Fine Now EP. For her full-length debut, Gatlin found herself revisiting the childhood years she spent closeted in a conservative Christian community in Florida, centering the album around stories of coming of age, self-discovery, and burgeoning independence.

Gatlin has spent the summer steadily sharing new singles from the record, beginning with a vulnerable reflection on childhood queerness, “If She Was a Boy” and following most recently with last month’s dramatic indie ballad, “Soho House Valet.” Today, ahead of the album’s release, Gatlin is sharing an early listen to one of the record’s highlights, “Florda Man,” alongside an accompanying video, premiering with Under the Radar.

“Florida Man” is a song that explores what it’s like to be caught between two worlds, with Gatlin ultimately choosing to walk away form the expectations of family and community and embrace something freeing and authentic. Fittingly, the track itself is also a sunny blend of shimmering and sprawling indie pop alongside pastoral Americana textures. Gatlin intersperses the soaring chorus and lush production with keening pedal steel and guitar twang, all as her lyrics offer a defiant retort to the stifling culture of control she grew up under: “I wanna make it big / Wanna kiss all kinds of people / But you keep trying to fit my fat ass through a needle / I’m only judging you for judging me on who I wanna love / I could visit for the summer, but you won’t let me bring my crush.”

Gatlin says of the track, “The irony of having written a song called “Florida Man” in London with a Brit is not lost on me. But this song is my empowering statement with a dash of ‘fuck you’ to the life my family and community growing up wanted for me. I wanted it to soar and to feel free in the production because the lyric is not only about taking control of the life I’ve decided to live, but sticking up for it. I had been listening to a lot of Brit Pop and Rock since I was working in the UK - and specifically The Verve’s “Bittersweet Symphony” and Primal Scream’s Screamadelica. I think parts of those influences are seeped into this track.”

Check out the song and video below. The Eldest Daughter is out on October 3rd via Dualtone Records.