D’Lourdes 'You Get It or You Don’t' - A Sonic Manifesto of Identity and Defiance
- Curious For Music Team
- Jul 21
- 2 min read
From the first moments of You Get It or You Don’t, it’s clear D’Lourdes is not here to play by anyone else’s rules.
This isn’t just an album—it’s an artistic uprising. With searing emotion and genre-defying force, the non-binary Filipino-American artist delivers a debut that doubles as both diary and battle cry. It's the kind of record that pulses with the urgency of someone who’s spent their life misunderstood and is finally speaking in a voice too loud to ignore.
Rather than mold themselves into a single style, D’Lourdes pulls from an arsenal of sounds—gritty guitars, lush harmonies, sharp funk riffs, and alt-pop polish—all tied together by a voice that knows how to haunt and heal in the same breath. The shifts are deliberate, never jarring, because the throughline isn’t the genre—it’s the person. And that person holds nothing back. This is not music crafted for mass approval; it's music crafted for release, survival, and self-definition.
What’s most impressive is how fearless the record feels in its emotional landscape. Instead of tying a bow around pain, D’Lourdes drags it into the light, daring it to be beautiful. There’s catharsis here—not just in the lyrics, but in every sonic choice. The push-and-pull of control versus chaos, the sharpness of each beat, the theatrical bursts of energy—all of it speaks to an artist who understands that being seen often starts with refusing to shrink.
With You Get It or You Don’t, D’Lourdes has made the kind of debut that doesn’t whisper its way into the scene—it kicks the door down. It’s a project that commands respect not by asking for it, but by standing boldly in its truth. For anyone who’s ever felt unseen, unheard, or misread, this album doesn’t just resonate. It roars.
