Cheryl Stixx Posted July 19 Posted July 19 (edited) CHERYL STIXX DROPS EMOTIONAL NEW SINGLE “GLITTER GHOST” Moments after scoring her first win since returning to OCW on tonight’s episode of Riot, Cheryl Stixx released a brand-new single titled “Glitter Ghost” — a dark, shimmering confessional that sees the pop-wrestling bombshell at her rawest. Released via YouTube as an official audio track, Glitter Ghost serves as the latest promo single from her upcoming debut album Cherilyn (due August 22), and dives headfirst into themes of addiction, performance, and the brutal high of being seen. The track is written by Cheryl herself (under her real name, Cherilyn Rae Boyd) with Ey Fegh I, and produced by Danny Boyd and Devonté Hynes — marking one of the most sonically stripped yet emotionally saturated songs she’s released to date. “I danced through shame in a mirror skin / Smile zipped tight where the ache begins,” Cheryl sings in the chorus, balancing club-ready production with lyrics that ache with guilt, glamour, and ghostly self-awareness. The song is haunted by what Cheryl calls a “glitter ghost” — a metaphor for the addiction to attention, applause, and self-destruction that follows even when the party’s over. The track asks the kind of questions only silence dares to answer: “Am I real if I’m not watched?” Built on breathy vocals, pulsing melancholia, and electronic flourishes that shimmer like broken disco balls, Glitter Ghost explores the cyclic grip of self-destruction and the disorienting hunger for validation. From the hotel lights of verse one to the final crushing plea—“If I ghost out now, will the glitter stay?”—the song paints a portrait of a woman caught between applause and oblivion. This release follows her explosive single “idk why it got like that”, and deepens the emotional narrative behind Cherilyn, which Cheryl has described as “a breakdown, a breakthrough, and the truth I wasn’t ready to tell—until now”. “I don’t need saving” she confesses in the bridge. “I just need pause. Or blackout. Or applause.” The song arrives just weeks ahead of Cherilyn, which already promises to be a genre-blurring debut laced with pop, trance, R&B, and country, tied together by Stixx’s signature girly chaos. As always with Cheryl Stixx, the line between performance and personal history is blurred to the point of bruising — but Glitter Ghost doesn’t flinch. It lingers, it stings, and above all: it shines. Listen to “Glitter Ghost” now on Cheryl Stixx’s official YouTube channel. https://youtu.be/msIz7eaBMu4?si=AimuPMb2Mzxz5Xyd Cover art below: Edited July 19 by Cheryl Stixx 1
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