FLETCHER, Eras of Us | Beaming with Pride 🏳️‍🌈

In the 54^th edition of Beaming with Pride 🏳️‍🌈 (2025), we highlight “Eras of Us” performed by FLETCHER.

Prepare to beam with P-R-I-D-E 🏳️‍🌈! Beaming with Pride 🏳️‍🌈 celebrates, embraces, and spotlights songs by LGBTQ musicians or allies.  Here, we provide background and insight into musicians, analyze, plus go gaga over the decadent bops served up.  When songs dictate deeper and more transcendent discussion, we ensure the point is fully articulated.  All styles of music are welcome, whether the songs are classics or brand-new. So, without further ado, in the 54^th edition of Beaming with Pride 🏳️‍🌈 (2025), we highlight “Eras of Us” performed by FLETCHER.

“Sometimes I re-run those sixteen seasons for the rush.” You can always depend on FLETCHER (Cari Fletcher) for an awesome, love-driven, relationship-oriented gem. “Eras of Us”, the sixth track from her 2024 album, In Search of the Antidote, gives us that. The excerpted line specifically references her previous four-year relationship with Shannon Beveridge. Fletcher co-wrote “Eras of Us” with Jennifer Decliveo, Jeremy “Kinetics” Dussolliet, and One Love (Timothy  Sommers). Decliveo and One Love produced it.

“Eras of Us” begins with a cool, guitar ostinato. FLETCHER sings in her lower register initially, in an undertone. “I’ve been practicing this moment for like twenty-somethin’ years in my head / ‘It’s nice to meet you’,” she sings in the first verse, adding, “That’s what I said / You said, ‘Baby, this is gonna be some movie shit we’ll never forget.’” Word.  FLETCHER ascends higher during the chorus. Expectedly, the chorus benefits from tunefulness:

“These are the eras of us

A story of love

Stealin’ the air right from my lungs

Girl of my dreams

Forever we’re young

Remember it just the way it was

The eras of us.”

The second verse has more oomph compared to the first. Specifically, the production is more driven with heavier, pummeling drums. At the end of the second verse, she delivers some of the song’s best lyrics: “I told every one of my friends / You won’t get a lyric again / But goddamn here I fuckin’ am / Stuck in the eras of us.” Later, the bridge distinguishes itself from the other sections. The energy here is incredibly high as FLETCHER proclaims, she’s “just an adrenaline slut” that has “been tryna kill the memory of you in my mind / It’s a cross I’m gonna bear until the day that I die.” She brings things down in the final chorus, admitting, “I miss the eras of us,” and takes responsibility (“I fucked it up”). FLETCHER’s pain is our listening pleasure in “Eras of Us”. Her experience is universal, hence making it relatable whether you are a member of the LGBTQ+ community or hetero AF.