Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who’s a little bitch and can’t face his own flaws? Jesse Detor takes a sledgehammer to an ex’s warped self-image in her video “Mirror,” which arrived yesterday (September 21) to accompany the new track. The Minneapolis-raised Berklee student exerts a boomerang of redirection in the release, as she fends off a dubious ex’s projected shortcomings. The sparking boudoir backdrop intensifies the message of her firecracker fall single: That is, there’s nothing wrong with Detor or this view.
“‘Mirror’ was written about the realization that a relationship may have less to do with the way a person feels about you, and a lot more to do with the way they feel about themselves,” she explains. “It’s harsh and brutally honest, but the hurt that I felt lies just beneath the surface… I blame the song’s subject for hurting me and I try not to shy away from the pain they’ve caused, but ultimately I know that there’s nothing wrong with me, an idea that is less common than it should be in women’s writing.”
To adapt our favorite Ava Max lyric, maybe that ex should take their little finger and just point it this “Mirror.”