Gabrielle Manna turns pain into power with ”Curse Your Name”

Gabrielle Manna delivers aid to your recovery in her new single, “Curse Your Name,” a contradictory masterclass in all the best ways. It’s a song you’ll find yourself nodding along to on a sunny drive, swaying to at a midnight kitchen dance party, or playing on repeat in your earbuds. But just beneath its funky indie synthpop glitter, Manna exposes something much more profound : a ferocious, vulnerable reckoning with trauma, survival, and self-forgiveness.

Clocking in like an emotional vent and a hum-tastic earworm, “Curse Your Name” sees Manna skillfully walk the line between bright pop-rock production and emotionally bare storytelling. The beat has an infectious, invitational energy that beckons dancers to their feet, but the moving it invites isn’t just physical. It’s emotional. It’s spiritual. It’s about busting through old patterns and reclaiming parts of yourself buried under layers of shame.

“Curse Your Name”, based on Manna’s experience of being abused by a stepfather for most of her teenage life, deals with the kind of trauma most pop songs avoid, like the plague. But Manna’s brilliance is in how gracefully and brazenly she works across this heavy terrain. She isn’t afraid of the pain but doesn’t let it define the song. Instead, she transforms it. “Curse Your Name” isn’t so much about the abuser as the survivor, about reclaiming your story, your agency, your joy.

There is a moment in the lyrics where the emotional tide shifts, not with resentment, but with determination. It’s not about vengeance. It’s about release. “Forgiving yourself” becomes a gentle revolution; you hear it in every synth swell and guitar riff. With this song, Manna shows pop doesn’t have to be vapid to be catchy. It might be the dance floor on which you divest your old skins. It can be a mirror, a fist pump, a sigh of relief.’
“Curse Your Name” is a song and a life raft for anyone who has ever borne the hidden pain and wanted the strength to release it. Gabrielle Manna doesn’t just create music. She’s making meaning, and making meaning with a beat you’re going to want to dance to until your soul breathes out.