SuperYou Lyrics – All Songs from the Musical

"SuperYou: The Musical Concept Album (Original Score)" – Album Guide to Tracks and Key Scenes

Review

What if the most “super” thing in a superhero story is the moment the mask slips? That’s the tension this concept album lives on: big rock-operatic hooks, then a sudden drop into raw diary confession. “SuperYou: The Musical Concept Album (Original Score)” isn’t trying to be polite background listening. It keeps nudging you to choose: stay numb, or show up.

At the story’s center is Katie White, a comic book artist in a messy real world. The musical’s premise — her superheroine creations come to life and drag her into their heightened, neon-bright logic — becomes the album’s best trick. The score can sound like a stadium anthem one minute, and then turn intimate enough to feel like you’re eavesdropping on a late-night voicemail the next. That contrast gives the record its narrative engine: the “big” songs aren’t there just to flex; they’re there to hold Katie up when the floor keeps moving.

Genre-wise, the album moves in phases. Early cues lean into pop-rock uplift (believe, get up, try again) — the kind of sound that makes you stand taller without noticing. Mid-album, it splinters into darker rock confessionals and theatrical tension (the “I can’t breathe in my own life” stretch). Then it swings into community — ensemble voices, layered harmonies, collective resolve — where the themes lock: self-worth, found family, and the fierce, slightly ridiculous courage it takes to speak when you’ve trained yourself not to.

How It Was Made

This album is tied to a musical with an unusually public evolution. “SuperYou” (book, music, and lyrics by Lourds Lane) was moving toward an off-Broadway run when the pandemic hit. Instead of vanishing, the project pivoted into socially distanced performances and filmed/virtual releases — turning the score itself into the main delivery system for a while. That context matters: these songs were built to travel without a fully mounted production, so they’re crafted to communicate plot and emotion fast — clean hooks, clear turns, voice-forward writing.

By the time the fully staged UK production debuted at Curve (Leicester), the piece had been “retooled and re-imagined” into a completely sung-through rock opera. The creative team around that staging includes director/choreographer JoAnn M Hunter and music supervisor Wendy Bobbitt Cavett, alongside designers (scenic, costume, video, lighting, sound) associated with large-scale musical storytelling. If you’re listening to the concept album today, you’re hearing the foundation that later productions amplified — the DNA of the show before the full theatrical body arrived.

Tracks & Scenes

Note: Because this is a concept album (not a film soundtrack), “timestamps” below are given as show structure markers where they’re verifiable (Act/Scene/Song number from published audition materials, plus notable public references). Where the staging moment isn’t publicly documented, I describe the track’s function without pretending we have an exact cue.

“You’re My Superhero” (SuperYou feat. Kacie Sheik)

Where it plays:

Early in the story, Young Katie is wrecked by bullying voices that overlap like a siren you can’t shut off. Matty finds her in her room, rescues her drawing from the floor, and gently reframes it: the crooked smile in her superheroine looks like her. The song starts as an intimate sing-to-someone-who-sees-you moment, then cracks open into a wider truth — she’s been silent at school, and the silence has started to feel like identity.

Why it matters:

This is the origin of Katie’s inner mythology. The lyric-and-scene pairing makes art into voice — not a metaphor, but a survival tactic.

“Misfit” (SuperYou feat. Lourds Lane)

Where it plays:

In a late-night spiral, Katie draws at her desk and something impossible happens: a pigtailed “misfit” superhero rises out of the work itself. The scene plays like a jump-scare in reverse — not terror, but sudden companionship. As Rise’s backstory rolls out on projections, Katie keeps editing, reacting, and accidentally admitting she relates more than she wants to.

Why it matters:

It’s the first clear “creations come to life” switch. The musical turns self-criticism into a character you can talk back to — and maybe, eventually, befriend.

“All We Got Is Now” (SuperYou feat. Lourds Lane)

Where it plays:

After a jagged emotional blow-up, the show slides into a flashback under this underscore: behind a scrim, Young Katie appears happy — a memory so bright it stings. The present-day Katie watches the past like it’s a movie she can’t pause, caught between “go back” and “keep going.” The moment lands like a breath between fights.

Why it matters:

It reframes time as the real antagonist. The superheroes can punch monsters; they can’t punch regret. The score chooses presence anyway.

“Fragmented” (SuperYou feat. Kennedy Caughell)

Where it plays:

In the scripted material, Katie’s anger spills into an a cappella “Fragmented” reprise — a cracked, exposed shout rather than a polished performance. It’s staged amid a rapid-fire, game-show-like confrontation that keeps prodding at her relationship pain until she can’t dodge it. The music arrives like the body’s truth-teller when the mouth refuses.

Why it matters:

The show uses fragmentation as form: the song isn’t just about being split — it sounds split. That’s the point.

“To My Angels” (SuperYou feat. Kennedy Caughell)

Where it plays:

Scene 18: Katie’s relationship hits a brutal snap, and the staging mirrors it with a nightmare replay — Lightning Girl falls off a cliff, wings failing as she tumbles into blackout. A slammed door punctuates the silence. Alone in a pin spot, Katie sings “To My Angels” like a prayer she doesn’t fully believe anymore, asking for a sign in the middle of emotional freefall.

Why it matters:

This is the album’s exposed nerve. The superhero vocabulary becomes spiritual language — not religious, but desperate, human, and specific.

“Fight for Katie White” (SuperYou feat. Lourds Lane & Brie Cassil)

Where it plays:

In the audition-script material, the show sets up a tight contest clock: Katie’s creative identity is on the line, and pressure turns the room into a battleground. The song reads as the internal rally — the part where the heroine stops negotiating with fear and starts choosing herself, even if her hands shake while she chooses.

Why it matters:

It’s an empowerment song that earns its volume. “Fight” here isn’t macho posturing; it’s a decision to exist out loud.

“Stronger Now” (SuperYou feat. Lourds Lane, Brie Cassil, Lavon Fisher-Wilson, Molly Tynes, Kennedy Caughell, Jillian Gottlieb & Katrina Rose Dideriksen)

Where it plays:

Publicly confirmed as the musical’s finale, “Stronger Now” gathers the show’s voices into one last collective push. It plays like the curtain-call energy you want inside the story — not “everything is fixed,” but “we’re still here.” In 2020 it also became a virtual performance piece, timed to the off-Broadway premiere date that didn’t happen.

Why it matters:

Finales often pretend pain is over. This one argues something tougher: resilience is real even when the world stays complicated.

“Light of the World” (SuperYou feat. Lourds Lane, Nicolette Hart, Lavon Fisher-Wilson, Molly Tynes, Brie Cassil & Kennedy Caughell)

Where it plays:

In early critical coverage of the show’s concert form, “Light of the World” is cited as part of the emotional decrescendo — the stretch that can leave an audience in tears. On the album, it functions like a civic anthem with a pulse: many voices, one warning — when people dim themselves to survive, everybody loses something.

Why it matters:

This is the show’s thesis stated without lectures. The melody carries the message so your defenses don’t get a vote.

“We Are Awake” (SuperYou feat. Lourds Lane, Brie Cassil & Kennedy Caughell)

Where it plays:

Referenced in concert-era coverage as one of the score’s major emotional pillars, “We Are Awake” plays like a communal wake-up call — the moment the room agrees to be honest. In a sung-through show, songs like this typically function as a hinge: after it, denial becomes harder to maintain.

Why it matters:

Awakening is a recurring idea in the show’s language: not magical transformation, but the ordinary courage of clarity.

“Best Friends” (SuperYou feat. Kacie Sheik, Melanie Krahmer, Queen V, Militia Vox, Scrappy Calloway, Danielle Lee Greaves & Lourds Lane)

Where it plays:

The concept album frames this as a high-voltage ensemble moment — a burst of social energy that contrasts the isolating numbers. Publicly available scripted materials don’t pin an exact cue placement for this specific title, but its function is clear on record: it’s the sound of community arriving like backup dancers for your nervous system.

Why it matters:

It keeps the show from becoming a solo endurance test. Friendship becomes a form of stagecraft: bodies and voices saying, “You don’t have to do this alone.”

Non-album number spotlight: “Don’t Wait, Create” (Matty-led number in published script materials)

Where it plays:

Scene 4 in published materials: Matty pulls Young Katie into the city and teaches her a kind of creative spell — when he gestures on the word “create,” people morph into vivid comic-book heroes. It’s staged as wonder, but it’s also instruction: the world can hurt you, and you can still make something.

Why it matters:

This is the musical’s mission statement in one line. It treats creativity as a verb you can do even while scared.

Notes & Trivia

• “Stronger Now” is publicly identified as the show’s finale — which makes its pandemic-era virtual performance feel like a narrative echo, not just marketing.
• Audition packets show the storytelling technique in miniature: scrims, projections, and “underscores” are used to slide between present action and memory without stopping the music.
• The “comic book world” isn’t just a setting — it’s a coping mechanism made physical. When Katie can’t speak, the show lets drawings speak first.
• Matty’s creative coaching is literalized as stage magic: gestures turn strangers into heroes. It’s cheesy on purpose. That’s the antidote.
• The show’s “Chix”/ensemble staging in published pages uses game-show rhythms and buzzer-like sounds — comedy as pressure-release valve, then a trap door into confession.
• “To My Angels” is paired with a nightmare fall sequence in published materials — a clear example of the musical letting the superhero iconography visualize mental health spirals.
• Early concert coverage highlights a “decrescendo” stretch where multiple emotional numbers land in succession — the score likes to build you up, then quietly undo you.
• Later productions emphasize the piece as fully sung-through — meaning the album is especially useful as a story map, not just a playlist.

Reception & Quotes

Response to “SuperYou” tends to focus on two things: (1) the unapologetic rock-opera style and (2) the project’s community momentum — fans sharing covers during lockdown, plus high-profile concert milestones before the fully staged premiere. The concept album benefits from that history: listeners often come to it already primed to treat these tracks as tools (sing them, cover them, survive with them), not just entertainment.

“The powerhouse female cast members … sing the finale of the musical.” Dan Meyer, Playbill

“SuperYou … went viral in lockdown as superfans posted their own cover versions.” Philip Lowe, East Midlands Theatre

“Possibly SuperYou’s greatest strength is Lourds Lane’s music and lyrics.” Jake’s Take

“I would rate this show 4 out of 5 stars!” RhysReviews

Availability note: the concept album is widely streamable (Apple Music, Spotify, Amazon Music, and other services). Some platforms also list later singles connected to the property (including instrumental releases and newer standalone tracks), so the “SuperYou” discography can look bigger than the original 2020 album depending on region.

Interesting Facts

• The show’s UK production at Curve was announced as a fully staged, fully sung-through re-imagining.
• Published pages show “underscore” cues used as emotional glue between scenes — the score behaves like a film score even onstage.
• “Don’t Wait, Create” is staged as literal transformation: ordinary people become superhero drawings in real time.
• The concept album’s featured vocalists span musical theatre and rock voices — a deliberate blend that matches the show’s tone.
• The project’s pandemic-era presentation helped build a fan ecosystem that later productions could inherit.
• Several songs are explicitly framed as “message” numbers in press coverage — hope, inner strength, and self-love are not subtext here.
• The musical’s premise lets “superhero” operate as a metaphor that can stretch: identity, disability, trauma recovery, confidence, creativity.

Technical Info

• Title: SuperYou: The Musical Concept Album (Original Score)
• Year: 2020
• Type: Musical concept album / original score (soundtrack category on major platforms)
• Primary creator: Lourds Lane (book, music & lyrics for the musical)
• Notable creative roles (stage production context): Director/Choreographer — JoAnn M Hunter; Music Supervision — Wendy Bobbitt Cavett
• Release context: Released during the period when the planned off-Broadway production was postponed; the show later premiered fully staged in the UK.
• Selected notable placements: “Stronger Now” publicly identified as the musical’s finale; “All We Got Is Now” appears as an underscore cue in published scene material; “To My Angels” is staged in Scene 18 with a nightmare-fall sequence in published material.
• Label / rights note: ? 2020 SuperYou (platform listing)
• Availability: Streaming on Apple Music and Spotify; also listed on Amazon Music (regional catalog may vary)

Key Contributors

Questions & Answers

Is this a cast recording or a concept album?

It’s billed as a concept album: a recorded presentation of the score’s core material, released in 2020, rather than a “final Broadway cast” document.

What story does the album follow?

“SuperYou” centers on Katie White, a comic book artist who learns self-love when her superhero creations come to life — the songs track her breakdowns, breakthroughs, and the community that forms around her.

What’s the biggest “anchor track” if I only listen to one?

“Stronger Now.” It’s publicly identified as the musical’s finale and functions like the emotional summary: not perfect, but resilient.

Are there important songs from the show that aren’t on the 2020 album?

Yes. Published script materials include numbers like “Don’t Wait, Create,” which is central to the show’s creative philosophy and appears as a staged song in early scenes.

Where can I stream it, and do versions differ by region?

Major platforms list the album (Apple Music, Spotify, Amazon). Some regions also surface later singles (including instrumentals), which can make the “SuperYou” catalog look different depending on storefront.

Sources: Apple Music; Spotify; Playbill; WhatsOnStage; Jake’s Take; East Midlands Theatre; RhysReviews; Wojcik Casting audition PDFs (wojcasting.com); SuperYou Musical (official YouTube).