Tamara & The Dreams Return With First New Song Since 2022, 'Successful Bisexual'
Joyful, exuberant, and anthemic in its presentation, the long-awaited return of Tamara & The Dreams comes with a story tinged with tragedy.
Tamara & The Dreams (Credit: Bridgette Winten/Supplied)
If you’re a dedicated fan of Tamara & The Dreams, then the past few years have undoubtedly been a little bit lean in terms of new material. Thankfully, the drought is over, with Successful Bisexual arriving as a stunning return to form.
Having first made a musical debut back in 2019, Tamara & The Dreams swiftly became a name to watch in the midst of lockdown, with tracks like internet song and the cracked phone screens EP arriving to modest acclaim.
Following the release of 2022’s Zero To 100, things went a little bit quiet. There were still some live appearances, but fans had been left wanting in terms of recorded gear.
Now though, she's returned with her latest track, the anthemic Successful Bisexual, which leans into self-discovery, the notion of embracing desires, and experiencing life to its fullest.
“I wrote the song ‘Successful Bisexual’ into my voice memo app on a ferry while backpacking in the Greek Islands,” Tamara says of the track. “After so many years of not feeling comfortable in my skin I finally felt ‘me’ — I finally felt confident, hot, independent — like I had ‘come of age’.”
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According to Tamara, the track was written as a way to capture the feeling of one’s youth ending, and the dreaded notion of running out of time. Ultimately, the track was supposed to be released in 2024, but while hitchhiking through Europe she received the news that her mother had suddenly passed.
“Just as I was about to release the song, I got the call that my mum, my best friend in the world, suddenly died out of nowhere from a brain aneurysm,” she explained. “Now I have this song about being scared of aging and wanting to live life to the fullest, that's taken on new meaning because you truly never know what's around the corner.
“I'm no longer scared of aging, now I understand getting old is a privilege that not everyone gets, and I want to make the most out of every day I get to spend living.”
Though it remains to be seen whether Successful Bisexual will be followed by further new music, this anthem to the idea of embracing life is certainly a long-awaited return for the acclaimed Melbourne artist.
Ultimately though, the song is not just a return to form, but a representation of the very ethos which Tamara lives by: “The antidote to grief is a lust for life.”
This piece of content has been assisted by the Australian Government through Music Australia and Creative Australia, its arts funding and advisory body
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