Casey Dienel Reveals New Single ‘Your Girl’s Upstairs’

Casey Dienel’s “Your Girl’s Upstairs” feels like a whispered secret and a battle cry all at once. Their first single in years arrives like a message scrawled across a motel mirror—intimate, urgent, and impossible to ignore. It marks the beginning of a new era for the singer, producer, and songwriter, as they prepare to drop their seventh album My Heart Is An Outlaw later this year. And if this track is anything to go by, it’s going to be a wildly emotional, deeply personal ride.

The song floats on a mesmerizing loop, slowly unfolding with layers of guitar (shoutout to meg duffy), steady rhythm, and vocals that feel like they’ve lived a hundred lifetimes. It’s dreamy but grounded, like driving through the desert at midnight while thinking about everything you never said. The production is rich with texture, but nothing ever feels overdone—it’s all perfectly in balance.

Dienel explores themes of autonomy and queerness with sharp poetic clarity. The lyrics bite and soothe at the same time, holding the complexity of what it means to be yourself in a world that often demands simplicity. There’s a kind of quiet rebellion in the line “She played house, played dead…”—a reminder of all the ways we twist ourselves to fit into someone else’s story, and what it means to break free of that.

This is music for anyone figuring themselves out—again, and again, and again. “Your Girl’s Upstairs” doesn’t try to resolve the contradictions—it sits in them, glows in them. It’s beautiful, it’s bold, and it’s so very alive. Casey Dienel is making music for those of us who’ve never fit neatly into the box, and in doing so, they’ve made something that feels like freedom.

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