Listen to SPIDER’s fun new “over-the-top cheerleader rock song”

Dublin-born alternative artist SPIDER has shared a new single, straight out the oven !.

With the aim of presenting itself as a “fun, catchy ‘blonde, sorority girl who doubles as an over-the-top cheerleader’ rock song”, the track hears SPIDER write, produce and play everything on it, while also importantly having an inner discussion within the lyrics about “the desire to be desired, and confronting the types of people we go to for that validation”.

“It’s that need that we all have to be irresistible – but asking yourself, ‘Why do I want these specific people to desire me in the first place?’” she shares. “I produced and wrote the entire thing on my own which definitely gave me the space to explore that part of myself without having to hide it behind a complicated metaphor.”

straight out the oven ! is the first taste of her upcoming EP an object of desire, which is due out in 2024 and will see her examining “questions I was asking myself about objectification, desire and intimacy as an ex-Catholic school student who grew up in a very religious household”.

“Writing this EP was a way for me to explore the conclusions that were put there by a religious upbringing that covered this area of life in so much shame and nonsensical conditions,” SPIDER explains. “It also allowed me to process the anger I had towards the ways I was mistreated in the past without the pressure of maintaining grace. This project feels like the most personal, freeing thing I’ve made thus far!”

Listen to straight out the oven ! below.

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