For a musician who once proclaimed that “nothing ever feels right,” Layzi’s new tune feels pretty on the nose. The Boston artist bounces back from a breakup with her new single and music video “Ego,” which dropped last week (May 27) via Spirit Goth.
Layzi’s latest captures a specific moment in the art of dumping someone: That coveted window of relief sandwiched between “the talk” and the obligatory weepy period.
“I wrote ‘Ego’ at a time when I was really questioning what I wanted in the relationship I was in,” Layzi tells Vanyaland. “I felt like I was losing myself by being so worried about someone else and I just needed to focus on myself. My solution was to break up, even though I didn’t really want that either. I wrote the song while I was feeling that ‘newly-single’ euphoria, hence why it’s an upbeat breakup song. A lot of the lyrics touch on relationship anxiety and the emotional whiplash I was feeling.”
“Gave you all my money and gave you all of my love / Somehow it wasn’t enough,” she sings, countered by the confession “I know it could be so much better.” The joy bursting from Layzi’s bubbly bedroom pop isn’t a symptom of ego at all; in reality, it’s what a strong sense of self-worth sounds like. And that, above all else, will always feel “right.”
Press play on the new single and music video below.
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