Lady Dan sets her own course on liberating new single “I Am The Prophet”

“I’m just a woman, not your holy heroine muse,” croons Lady Dan (AKA Tyler Dozier) in the second verse. Lyrically, she stakes her claim as a person beyond the romanticised male definitions she'd previously felt defined by, before stating, “I don’t think there’s a saviour man / Not even in God.”

Raised in a strict religious environment, male authority was something Dozier continually lived under. It was only when she attended ministry school with her then-boyfriend that she began to have serious doubts in her faith. Abandoning any ministerial plans, she moved to Austin in order to start her life afresh. “I Am The Prophet”, taken from her upcoming debut album of the same name, is an introduction to an LP that charts her process of renewal.

“I took a step back, looked at my life, and detoxed it,” Dozier explains. “I started creating my own moral compass because I realized it had previously been made up by men in my life - pastors, boyfriends, people who didn’t care about my best interests. A lot of these songs are me processing and shedding all of that.”

Dozier puts herself first on this track. Not only is the arrangement an exhibition of her mastery over tension and release, but her lyrics represent an artist's exploration of self-identity and independence.

Dozier describes the track as being "born of the resentment that comes with the modern dating era." As she explains, "A month getting to know someone, letting them know you, and then the other party backing out once things are meant to progress. So you stay on this constant loop, like a rodent running on a wheel, doomed to repeat the cycle until you’re so tired you just give up completely. Then, throw some sacrilege in for a little flavor."

Speaking about the track's accompanying video, Dozier says: "The three of us ladies sat down to see when we could create these videos just one week after I got back to Austin from wrapping up recording in Nashville. We somehow landed on a date just two weeks from that moment, with the intention of driving 18 hours to Joshua Tree, California to film it. We had plans to shoot at the Monahans Sandhills State Park in Texas for the daylight scenes in 'I Am The Prophet', so we knocked the scenes out and hit the road, jamming to early 2000s hits and a little bit of Fleetwood Mac. The 'red scenes' you'll see in this video were filmed the following evening at the dining table of our desert Airbnb."