President are no longer hiding with their new song Fearless.

Since their emergence, the band has made a point of placing their art above identity, using symbolism, anonymity, and a stark visual language to shift the focus back onto the music. The gloves. The mask. The mystery. All deliberate and part of the statement. But with their latest track, “Fearless,” something has shifted. Literally, the gloves are off.

In the closing frames of the new music video, the lead figure, once gloved and once masked, is revealed. The white gloves, a signature of earlier visuals (including “In the Name of the Father”), are gone. And with that subtle detail, President make their loudest statement yet: the performance is over, but the struggle is real.

Released just weeks after the eerie reverence of their debut single, “Fearless”, lands with a different energy. It’s not a prayer or a plea. It’s a demand. A song that’s both defiant and personal, and a window into the raw psychological toll of pretending you’re okay when you’re not.

Letting Go of Pretence, Clinging to Truth

“Fearless” opens not with rage, but resignation. “Terrorised, I’m a long way from you now”. The very first line doesn’t posture. It doesn’t throw punches. It simply admits defeat, and from there, it starts clawing toward freedom.

The band’s cinematic sound is still intact: sweeping synths, gritty guitars, and a pulse that builds like a panic attack. But the most notable evolution is lyrical. “Fearless” isn’t framed around spiritual questioning or abstract symbolism. It’s grounded in something much more relatable — the mental minefield of healing from betrayal, abandonment, and internalised guilt.

Where “In the Name of the Father” probed the silence of God, “Fearless” is focused inward. It’s about what happens when you’ve been hurt, lied to, left behind, and you’re still expected to carry on. Not just functioning, but smiling.

The chorus drills that pressure into the mind: “I can’t lie to myself, it fucks with my health / I just want to be fearless.” It’s a lyric that cuts like a scalpel, because it doesn’t speak in poetic riddles. It speaks in breakdowns. In exhausted truths and the quiet shame of not being “resilient enough.”

Then comes the line that might be the centrepiece of the entire song: “Forgiveness is a strength I’m yet to learn.” President seem to understand that modern masculinity, particularly in heavy music, rarely leaves room for this kind of emotional transparency. But here they are, pulling back every layer. And by the time the outro echoes “Fearless, fearless” over and over, it doesn’t feel so much like a victory but a mantra.

Even the gloves, removed for the final unmasking, say something. This isn’t about shock value or spectacle. It’s about exposure. Raw and real stakes with no performance left to hide behind.

President – Fearless Lyrics In Full

A Mirror, Not a Mask

With “Fearless” President offer a mirror to everyone who’s ever reached their limit in silence. There’s no messiah or worship complex here, no all-knowing voice. Just a person trying not to fall apart.

The visual cue, the mask removed, the gloves discarded, signals a shift in the narrative. It could be a red herring, a deliberate misdirection in the ongoing mystery of identity. But ultimately, who’s behind the mask is secondary to what’s being said. President aren’t here to hide behind metaphors, religious iconography, or anonymity — they’re here to confront, to reveal, and to mean every word.

If “Fearless” is any indication, the real story of President is just beginning. Not as a faceless movement. But as something deeply, painfully human, because maybe being fearless isn’t about being invincible. Maybe it’s just about being honest enough to admit you’re not.

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