Ugly by Deb Never

Cyber stalking is 100% responsible for my love for this song and I'm not ashamed to admit it.

I was scrolling through Instagram one day in 2015 when I came across a cute girl dressed in streetwear named Tavia Bonetti. I clicked through and saw that she hung with a whole crew of cool skater girls in LA, and I followed them all. One of them was Deb Never.

Fast forward a few years and I'd see them going to Deb Never's shows in bars and small venues around LA, and I didn't think that much of it until my mate Amrit went on tour with her earlier this year and I was like wow this is gonna be a thing because Amrit is a lord and only works with the best.

Did I go and listen to the music? No.

Fast forward a few months to approximately 18 days ago and Deb Never posters got wheat pasted all over downtown Manhattan, including on my block. That caught my attention because I was like wow if there are posters there's money being spent on marketing and if there's money being spent on marketing there are people investing in the product and of course I also had the personal connection of having known who Deb Never was for a long time and so I got this little burst of pride when I saw her name on a wall by my house.

I flew to Paris a couple of days later and started listening, and her song Ugly nailed me straight away. It's slow and sad and her voice is way forward and the lyrics tell the story of a relationship gone wrong and it has this simple piano chord sequence and then the beat kicks in and it builds to a climax then fades away and it was the perfect song to listen to on repeat for six hours when I was trying and failing to fall asleep while rain pelted the huge windows I looked up at from my futon on the floor.

"Why can't we separate? Am I that desperate to feel the way that we used to?" :/

Right now it has just over 1.5 million listens on Spotify. I imagine that's gonna change real soon.

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