Kara Major’s “Can’t Control Me” Sparks a Powerful Burn of Purpose
When Kara Major punches in, she doesn’t clock out until she’s dismantled a system. In her new single “Can’t Control Me,” she doesn’t just offer another dance track to sweat through—she launches a full-bodied challenge to addiction, energetic manipulation, and conformity culture, wrapped in the volatility of EDM.
“Can’t Control Me” demands full presence. Produced by Grammy-winning Vinny Venditto, the track opens with a lean, tightly wound build, teetering on the edge of restraint before erupting into a serrated drop.
And that’s where Kara’s vocals land—front and center, unbothered and raw. It’s that confident, spoken edge that pulls from both rap and club traditions, but refuses to be boxed in by either. She’s here to remind you who’s running the room—and more importantly, who’s running herself.
The most striking part of “Can’t Control Me” is the shift in perspective Kara Major employs. She doesn’t just tell her story of growth and recovery from the outside in—she voices the chaos, the seduction of the forces that once had her under. There’s a quiet brilliance in that choice. It gives the song a kind of possession; not just thematic, but rhythmic. The result is a piece that plays like a spiritual confrontation at 128 BPM.
Kara Major’s entire trajectory has resisted simplicity. She is a senior executive and a national boxing champion—credentials that already set her apart in an industry full of familiar backstories. Her turn toward music is the story of a high-performing individual with no tolerance for compromise, finding the only medium vast enough to carry everything she has to say.
That’s perhaps what separates her from the glut of purpose-branded pop that often lacks teeth. There’s no empty empowerment rhetoric here. Her previous singles—“Win” and “White Collar Gangsta”—make it clear she’s not interested in performing strength for the algorithm. She’s dissecting it, redefining it, and feeding it through a sonic lens that knows exactly how much adrenaline and self-awareness today’s listener can handle.
