{"id":61187,"date":"2020-03-31T10:08:21","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T10:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=61187"},"modified":"2020-03-31T10:08:21","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T10:08:21","slug":"taylor-castro-is-back-with-girl-afraid-her-most-personal-track-to-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2020\/03\/taylor-castro-is-back-with-girl-afraid-her-most-personal-track-to-date\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Castro Is Back With &#8216;Girl Afraid&#8217;, Her Most Personal Track To Date"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Following on from her 2018 debut, &#8216;PURE&#8217;, Taylor Castro is back with a deeply personal track which sees her draw back the curtain from her seemingly perfect Florida life and reveal the difficult and extremely personal battles she has been fighting her whole life.\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cPURE was who I wanted to be, without the OCD,\u201d says Castro. \u201cIt is still who I am but I wasn\u2019t being totally honest. I had tried to stuff my OCD back down inside me and I didn\u2019t want to write about it. I felt like I wasn\u2019t being true and it was time to address my issues on this record. OCD presents a constant fear and paranoia, so I want \u2018Girl, Afraid\u2019 to be a comfort for people who suffer from it as I do.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">With this new change in tack, Castro proves that there is strength to be found in vulnerability. Her exquisite lyrical content seems like the song has been taken directly from the pages of her journal, and the result is a song so personal and heartfelt that it is no wonder it took Taylor an album into her career to gather the courage to release it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was a risk which paid off, however. As the feedback for \u2018Girl, Afraid\u2019 begins to pour in, it\u2019s clear that this actress-turned-singer has created something truly remarkable. No longer just a song in its own right, \u2018Girl, Afraid\u2019 inspired the singer to start an online community via her Instagram profile, encouraging her followers to share their own stories of mental health struggles using the hashtags #beaprincessagain and #royalsoul, taken from the song\u2019s profound lyrics.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But don\u2019t just take our word for it. Watch the stunning video below to see what exactly about this Florida-based superstar is turning heads and opening mouths, getting the all-too-important conversation about mental health going and making sure it\u2019s at the forefront of everyone\u2019s priorities right now.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GybTeyvtGUk?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following on from her 2018 debut, &#8216;PURE&#8217;, Taylor Castro is back with a deeply personal track which sees her draw back the curtain from her seemingly perfect Florida life and reveal the difficult and extremely personal battles she has been fighting her whole life. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":61189,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,57,9,21453,21445,21446,640],"tags":[2923,24704,77,370,18471,78,304,24705],"class_list":["post-61187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","category-new-artists","category-new-releases","category-new-singles","category-reviews","category-single-reviews","category-videos","tag-florida","tag-girl-afraid","tag-new-release","tag-new-single","tag-polly-havelock","tag-singer","tag-songwriter","tag-taylor-castro"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yMhl-fUT","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":63364,"url":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2020\/06\/taylor-castro-is-at-the-forefront-of-a-pioneering-new-way-to-watch-music\/","url_meta":{"origin":61187,"position":0},"title":"Taylor Castro Is At The Forefront Of A Pioneering New Way To Watch Music","author":"Polly Havelock","date":"26\/06\/2020","format":false,"excerpt":"During the pandemic, we have to make do with what we have. 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