Taste Test: Kenzie Cates recounts leaving a cult with ‘i don’t need u’
The singer-songwriter reclaims her self-worth.
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Kenzie Cates doesn’t mince her words. With her latest cut, “i don’t need u,” the pop starlet recounts the time she left a cult and found her own self-worth, picking up the pieces of her identity and flying free. “I was feeling lost until it hit me… I don’t need you,” she sings over a propulsive, sticky beat. In the face of manipulation, she discovers what it means to thrive and live as herself. Far removed from the unwavering eyes of the cult leader, she is able to speak truth to power in a way that’s refreshing and invigorating. “i don’t need u” might be about a cult, yet its theme about severing ties from a toxic relationship is universal. Plus, it helps that it’s a certified banger.
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