Nessa Barrett is responsible as charged! On Friday, the pop-rock musician launched her catchy single “Bang Bang!,” which follows the singer as she confesses to getting “intrusive ideas” about eager to kill an ex. And she or he’s keen to confess: “In case you assume this track is about you, it’s.”
The black-and-white video sees Barrett posing for a mugshot as she sings about utilizing a crowbar to close her ex-man up, and channeling her rage as visuals of crashed vehicles flash onscreen.
“And I’ll blow slightly kiss to your mommy and your dad/I’ll inform them that you just fell after I push you off the roof,” she sings. “I’ll ship you to Hell and your new bitch too.”
Barrett says she wrote the track concerning the rage she experiences at occasions on account of her battle with borderline character dysfunction.
“There’s occasions the place I simply get so mad that I take into consideration the craziest issues I wish to do in that second, I really feel like everybody deep down has intrusive ideas regardless that they don’t wish to admit it,” she says.
Barrett has been candid about dealing with BPD and why she hopes to interrupt the notion that each music star has a picture-perfect life. “I want that I had an individual that was releasing music or brazenly advocating for psychological well being, to [help me] understand that there’s lots of people that undergo it,” she beforehand informed Seventeen. “If I noticed an artist that was profitable and so they nonetheless handled psychological well being, then I’d have recognized it was okay for me as nicely.”
She additionally tweeted in early February about being misdiagnosed first as bipolar earlier than being handled for BPD, saying that she hoped individuals who suffered from the identical psychological sickness as her can really feel related and unashamed: “at first i didn’t know if i ought to be embarrassed or ashamed, however i’ve realized that i’ve an unimaginable platform and that i’m going to make use of it to one of the best of my skill.”
“Bang Bang” is Barrett’s first single of the 12 months and the follow-up to her album Younger Perpetually, which she launched final 12 months. The LP featured songs like “Die First,” “Madhouse,” and “Expensive God.” To have fun the album, Barrett is heading on a U.S. tour on the finish of the month, stopping at venues like New York’s Terminal 5 and Los Angeles’ Fonda Theatre.
Nessa Barrett “Younger Perpetually Tour Dates:
Feb 22 – Phoenix, AZ @ Crescent Ballroom
Feb 23 – Phoenix, AZ @ Crescent Ballroom
Feb 25 – Houston, TX @ RISE Rooftop
Feb 26 – Dallas, TX @ HOB – Cambridge Room/Echo Lounge & Music Corridor
Feb 28 – Atlanta, GA @ The Jap
Mar 2 – Philadelphia, PA @ The Fillmore
Mar 3 – Washington, D.C. @ The Anthem
Mar 5 – New York @ Terminal 5
Mar 6 – Boston, MA @ Roadrunner
Mar 8 – New York @ Irving Plaza
Mar 9 – New York @ Irving Plaza
Mar 11 – Toronto, ON @ Phoenix Live performance Theatre
Mar 13 – Chicago, IL @ Byline Financial institution
Mar 14 – St. Paul, MN @ Palace Theatre
Mar 16 – Denver, CO @ Mission Ballroom
Mar 17 – Magna, UT @ The Nice Saltair
Mar 19 – San Francisco, CA @ The Masonic
Mar 21 – Los Angeles, CA @ Fonda Theatre
Mar 22 – Los Angeles, CA @ Fonda Theatre
Mar 25 – Hollywood, CA @ Palladium
Aug 23 – Wetherby, UK @ Studying and Leeds Pageant
Aug 27 – Wetherby, UK @ Studying and Leeds Pageant