FREDRYD: "Trying to reconnect and bring people together"

Fred is a Swedish indie electronic producer, DJ, and former dancer whose music blends EDM, house, progressive house, techno, indie electronic, experimental, and pop. His work focuses on enjoyment, human connection, empowerment, and positive energy.

After initially pursuing a career as a singer, he turned to music production on BandLab in 2023. Following his experimental debut album Love Is What We Need (2024), he expanded his audience with The Way To The Good Life (2025) and the singles Can We Stop Being Estranged To Each Other?, I See You Shining, and Let The Girl Have Her Fun, released through LFTD Global / LVLD Music.

Inspired by artists such as Avicii, Zara Larsson, Ed Sheeran, Juliander, and Phil Collins, Fred creates music driven by the idea that music can connect people and make everyday life a little brighter.

"Girls Run The Dancefloor" has a very immediate energy. What was the first image, feeling, or moment that made you think, “this needs to become a track”?

Well, the first image come from the time I’ve seen girls who are professional dancers who work and practice a lot and at the same time, feeling that they have their right place, feeling the joy and it’s a way to express empowerment. So with that and some inspiration of Beyoncé’s well known hit song Run The World (Girls) and also from Fred Again’s for his music creativity in techno, it’s where this needed to become a track. 

As a former dancer, do you build a song starting from the sound, or from the way you imagine people moving to it?

It’s from what I imagined how people especially dancers moving to it when most of the music are mostly techno, R&B, dance pop, hip hop when it’s the genres they mostly connect with.

Your music often circles around connection, fun, optimism, and girl power. What did you especially want people to feel with this new single?

I did want people to feel that Girls Run The Dancefloor is a very good and motivational musical initiative. Also connection/reconnection, fun, optimism and girl power are the aspects that I include for it is an importance for me to make music about trying to reconnect and bring people together.

You started producing after trying to find your path as a singing artist. Does making electronic music now feel like a freer way to express yourself?

Yes, it is a more free way to express myself but most importantly to show that this is what I feel motivated to do when it comes to being an artist and DJ, wanting to connect & reconnect people and make a positive difference.

If “Girls Run The Dancefloor” were a scene in a movie, where would we be, and what would be happening around us?

If it were a scene in a movie, then I’d say that we would be in a dancing hall in an event where there are girls and young women who are professional dancers, we would be starting to enjoy dancing as a way to let go of our bad feelings and to socially connect/reconnect. Almost like it would be the same experience of Zara Larsson’s concerts where you get the positive energy of singing and dancing.

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