Frankie Silver returns with his latest release “Airplane Mode,” a personal and emotional release that reflects the sweeter kind of courage it takes to separate yourself from others and heal. The San Diego-based singer-songwriter casts the song as his personal dance with a toxic relationship, tracking that tipping point when you’ve had enough, and all that’s left is to extract yourself, reset, and reclaim it.“Airplane Mode” is an anthem for digital and emotional abduction. Frankie Silver doesn’t push the listener through, it pulls them into stillness. The song captures that gut-level urge to hit pause on all the noise, a suffocating relationship, social pressure, or simply the endless hum of expectation that accompanies life today. In this realm of purposeful quiet, the track subtly reminds us that healing isn’t always about pushing harder. Other times, it results from taking a step back.
Co-written by Frankie Silver, Matthew Joshua Hall, and Sharin Toribio, and produced by MJ Hall, “Airplane Mode” is intimate and reflective rather than showy. The message of the song is simple and profound: strength often comes from the quiet spaces we create in our own lives. In electing to pull away, Frankie converts chaos into calm, vulnerability into power.
A passionate Indigenous artist with a lifelong commitment to performing, Frankie Silver brings his work to bright, genre-blending pop music that’s both deep and wide, instantly familiar through personal lived experience. “Airplane Mode” is evidence of his maturation, not just as a writer but as a storyteller willing to face uncomfortable truths.
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