Evie Irie – 'Worst Enemy'
When Marina and the Diamonds released ‘Electra Heart’ in 2012, she hit a nerve: She gave a dark edge to pop music. Now, eight years later, Sydney born singer-songwriter Evie Irie taps into that same energy with haunting new single ‘Worst Enemy’.
Many a song has been written about the struggles of depression and anxiety, but few artists do it so irresistibly. With nightmarish beats and a magnetic (downward) spiral of a chorus, seventeen-year-old Evie joins the dark pop ranks of Melanie Martinez and renforshort - “I feel like a stranger in my mind, in my body. I love it ‘til I hate it, I’m my own worst enemy.”Talking about the song Evie says: “’Worst Enemy’ is about our inner demons. It’s about admitting to the times we sabotage ourselves, and the brutal things we put ourselves through. It’s about feeling like sometimes you are so lost, that you actually think you’re found. It’s a really hard reality when I realize I’m in that place - overwhelmed with the struggle of all of my inner demons. That’s the core of ‘Worst Enemy’. The self-sabotage, the constant drive to be better, and to be good enough. It’s an endless and inevitable cycle, that I think we all experience at a point in our lives, in one way or another.”
Words by Laura Freyaldenhoven