MuMu Releases Re-Imagined Version of Bruce Springsteen's "The River"

New York City-based artist MuMu has released a brand new single titled “The River”. The track comes from her forthcoming concept album, The Brothel: A Musical Memoir, which is set to be released on Friday, July 31st. A deluxe edition of the album will arrive next month on August 28th.

In a press release, she stated:

"My mother says she and my father were always in love. My father says they never were. She got pregnant and three weeks later they had what my father describes as “a shotgun wedding where we were both pointing shotguns at ourselves”. He told me to listen to The River, by Bruce Springsteen, to understand what it felt like for him at that time. Here is my version of The River, interwoven with my parents’ “love” story…or lack thereof."

About the album, she stated:

"My childhood was messy, loud, sometimes manically energetic, sometimes darkly depressed, but it was always full of love. We called our home The Brothel. was raised mostly by my mother, a brilliant, loving, and brave woman who also suffered greatly with mental illness. When my parents went through a messy divorce, I watched her fall apart. In my nine-year-old mind, standing by her side meant writing my father off completely.

Years later, during the pandemic, I released a song about my father, titled Strange. He heard it, and after fifteen years of being estranged, he reached out and wanted to talk. What was meant to be one call with him turned into 18 months of weekly Zoom meetings in which he told me his entire story from beginning to end. I secretly recorded every meeting and listened back over and over again. I suppose I was looking for answers to why I never felt good enough to be my father's daughter, desperate to let go of my original heartbreak."

You can check out the full track in its entirety below.

Main Photo: MuMu / Evan Murphy