Jehovah’s Princess performs at Purple City days after releasing new single

On September 6, Jehovah’s Princess, a Panamanian-American artist from New York City (NYC), performed in Edmonton for the 2025 Purple City Music Festival. Their music, which Jehovah describes as aggro dance, is motivated in part by a desire to help others feel less alone.

Jehovah’s stage name harkens back to their childhood. Raised as a Jehovah’s Witness, Jehovah was raised to believe that “the apocalypse was going to come at any moment.” Later, education helped to dispel this idea. 

Experiencing homelessness as a teenager and eventually receiving a scholarship to attend New York University (NYU) also impacted Jehovah’s worldview. At NYU, Jehovah witnessed “just a grander scale of class disparities.”

“The more I learned with my theory classes … and more history of course, the more I became enraged.”

The project of Jehovah’s Princess was started as a way for Jehovah to deal with personal traumas and let other ex-Jehovah’s Witnesses feel less isolated.

“If you leave being a Jehovah’s Witness, you lose everybody. Nobody’s allowed to talk to you. You’re completely outcasted.”

Recently released single focuses on Jehovah’s experiences with mental health

Jehovah’s most recent single, “Medicate (Phase II),” was released September 1, 2025. However, the song’s origins go back all the way to 2019. In fact, it was one of the first tracks created for Jehovah’s Princess. The reworked version was re-recorded with different lyrics and a different flow in 2023.

“That’s why I call it phase two because the lyrics reflect more of what I was going through at the time,” Jehovah said.

Originally, the lyrics focused on Jehovah’s experience with mental health and the inadequate, inaccessible supports for mental health in the United States (U.S.). 

“The amount of suffering that I was going through, the amount of money that was being spent that I didn’t have, or being denied health care because I didn’t have the money,” Jehovah said. “The original lyrics were more about insurance rates and quick fixes of getting people hooked on addictive substances or medications.”

The released, reworked version of “Medicate (Phase II)” focuses more on Jehovah’s experiences with borderline personality disorder (BPD) and the stigma surrounding the diagnosis. 

“Medicate (Phase II)”’s cover art — which was also created by Jehovah — features three Jehovahs surrounded by orange pill bottles. The pill bottles are Jehovah’s, although multiplied using editing. Over the years they have held on to many of their pill bottles with the intention of creating something with them.

“The cover art for that is … showcasing all the meds I’ve been through [and] treatment plans.”

Cover art for “Medicated (Phase II)” partly draws inspiration from Brave New World

In the left utmost corner of the cover there is a prescription label. When deciding to include this, Jehovah had the book Brave New World by Adlous Huxley in mind. In this classic dystopian novel, citizens of the World State frequently use a narcotic tranquilizer called Soma.

“I think about how Soma was taken to calm people down in order to suppress resistance and to make people complacent in an oppressive society,” Jehovah said. “It’s a lot of nature versus nurture. How much of this is biology — all of my symptoms — versus my environment and my circumstance.”

“Are we treating symptoms of oppression and capitalism and all these other things, or are we actually treating biology in that matter?”

Since Jehovah originally wrote the single, the U.S. has seen two different federal administrations. Conditions under Donald Trump’s current administration also played into Jehovah’s motivation to release “Medicate (Phase II).”

“My stuff has meaning. It’s politically charged. Or rather, it’s commentary of what a lot of people are going through. It should be heard.”