Arriving over a decade after her breakthrough, Zanders’ debut album Anything Goes is a symbol of her growth. The granddaughter of a gospel choir leader and a rock star at heart, Kaleena Zanders found her biggest stage in dance music when she sang on SNBRN’s 2015 hit “California,” nodding to 2Pac’s “California Love” with sunshine soul. Her powerhouse vocals placed her among modern disciples of ’90s dance divas including Crystal Waters, Ultra Naté, and Robin S.—but for years, she felt like she could only be a voice on someone else’s record. During the pandemic, she taught herself to DJ and began playing solo gigs, creating her own spotlight as an artist. Arriving over a decade after her breakthrough, Zanders’ debut album Anything Goes is a symbol of her growth. “It feels like the people shaping [today’s world] are constantly rewriting the rules, shifting systems…whether we’re ready or not,” she shared in a statement. “There’s a kind of chaos to it, like everything is up for grabs. So this album is my answer: Create without fear. Move without limits.” Widening her sonic palette while maintaining her signature warmth, Zanders delivers festival-sized anthems for getting through the hard times. The title track “Anything Goes”—Alanis Morissette-meets-Madonna’s “Ray of Light” electronica with rock grit and bass drops—is a resounding call to follow your dreams and live out loud, the soaring gospel house of “The Light” evokes euphoric shades of Ultra Naté’s “Free,” and “Who We Are” with fellow dance vocalist Hayley May is a UK-garage meditation on identity and purpose. And on the high-energy “Stronger Than Machines” (presciently written before the rise of AI), Zanders offers a hopeful refrain: “Brighter days are coming for you.”