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The rising singer TEÓNA’s bewitching new song “What I Want” is a sultry, unapologetic trip into the pleasure of making the wrong choice and snapping into a totally acceptable one, flipping the script on love storytelling. The song is a raw admission that the hardest decisions in life can guard the most sustained rewards; the refrain isn’t your run-of-the-mill healing-from-heartbreak anecdote.
With its dark, middle-of-the-night groove and seductive pulse, TEÓNA fully leans into emotional danger. Her performance, balancing between pleasure and consequence, exudes a sense of fearlessness, honesty, and audacity. It’s a song that perfectly captures giving into temptation not because you’re innocent, but because you want to be subject to everything, including the consequences.
“What I Want” speaks to the outliers among us, those whose paths leave a trail, who’d rather live on the edge of chaos than safety, who would follow an emotion before the facts. Rather than obscuring themselves through polished, predictable output, to hear TEÓNA's voice is to face their messy world with clarity and defiance. There’s something liberating in the air.
TEÓNA dares to offer the other perspective of choosing the storm and never looking back in a world of safe choices and manicured love stories. She doesn’t just have a moment with this song; she makes space for voices you don’t hear singing about this every day. It is real, very brave, and precisely what pop-soul has been lacking.